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Meanwhile, Back In Peoria...

A Travel Blog In And Around The River City With Your Host, Marty Wombacher

September 16, 2020

Shopping Locally - This Week: Wendy’s Creative Collections & Coins

by MBIP


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My brother Tom stopped in to Wendy’s Creative Collections & Coins to get something appraised last week and told me it was quite a unique place to have a local shopping experience.

So I decided to stop by and have a look since this is a local store I’ve never been in.

And you can see photos from my visit below.

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Here we are at Wendy’s Creative Collections & Coins.

They’ve won the “Best of the Best” award for three years in a row from the PJ Star, so they must be doing something right!

Let’s go in and check out this award-winning local business!

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Wow, the place is loaded with unique and unusual items.

I went to the back and met the owner Wendy. She told me that she’s been in business since 1999 and has been operating in this location for the past 15 years.

Wendy sells and buys coins, paper money, sports memorabilia, toys. scrap gold and more.

She said I could take a look around at some of the items in this unique local store, so let’s go have a look around in here!

Coin Collections

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As far as I know, this is Peoria’s only place that caters to coin collectors and as you can see, they have a lot of coinage to check out.

Paper Money

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Collectible paper money is also for sale and on display in here.

Sports Memorabilia

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There’s sports memorabilia for sale including rare sports trading cards, signed baseballs and bobblehead dolls for all of you sports fans out there.

JewelrY

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Check out the jewelry in these cases over here.

Toys

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Look at all the fun toys that they have in here.

Some of this stuff you can’t find on the internet, so it’s worth a stop by to check out all of this unique merchandise.

Creepy Dolls

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Yikes, these dolls kind of gave me the creeps!

My Favorite Thing In Here…

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Was this newspaper from back when JFK was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas.

This place is like a fun scavenger hunt, little treasures all over the place. If you’ve never been here, you should check out this cool local Peoria business!

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Wendy’s Creative Collections & Coins

3223 N. Prospect Road

Peoria

309-685-5323

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Related Posts: Shopping Locally @: Castle’s Patio Inn, Fiber Universe and The Costume Trunk.

Big coin that you toss for heads or tails…

Surprise link, click on it…I dare you!

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