After long days at scientific meetings, or on committees, he would spend many hours seeking out coin shops or other coin collectors.

The evening being young, Cranston still had time to call at some of the old coin shops that were staying open evenings because trade was so good.

Silver coins and bars can be bought and sold at coin shops around the world.

Paul, the coin shop?

"Is this a rare coin shop?"

There's the true collection, one for which the collector spent hours poring through catalogues and browsing in coin shops, carefully selecting the best pieces he could afford.

He glared at the little man behind the desk in the back office of the coin shop.

Any coin-guide book available at coin shops and most libraries could point out the same information.

They could have been stolen from a museum or a coin shop or a private . . ." His voice trailed of.

In fact, in the final days of the drachma, some Greeks are visiting coin shops trying to make a profit off their soon-to-expire currency.