Hey everyone. I'm wondering the absolute best places to get coins from. I mainly collect Barbers,Liberty Nickels and Franklin Half Dollars,but I also love ancient coins. A few sources I'm already aware of are Apmex,Littleton,vcoins and of course my local coin shop. Any suggestions would be helpful.
To kudegras: Try: www.paradisecoin.com www.fsrcoin.com www.millersmint.com and www.lccoins.com/shop/ Clinker
Try many of the dealers on this list: http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=26&threadid=607798
That's the fun of collecting for me, not knowing where your next "prize piece" is going to be from. I guess you can say that its the thrill of the chase that excites me. Use all your resources when finding coins, things can pop up in odd places. try flea markets or garage sales small coin shows as well as large ones I always keep a greysheet and a redbook(for very rough estimates) in my truck because I never know when a coin may pop up. Heck, last week I bought a coin from a friend at work who, I never even knew collected coins. Don't forget to use this forum as a resource, the Open/Auction forum is excellent as well.
I have bought 99% of my coins on Ebay. I have learned to look for good deals. Just out of curiousity, all of you guys that listed links to coins dealers....can you really get a better deal then buying them on Ebay???????
The red book is a book on US coin - see if this link works - The Red Book. Also I recommend the ANA grading guide - there are others also, but I like this one.
Sometimes yes and sometimes no - can't remember which Morgans I was looking at last night, but the dealer cost was 60 and most on ebay were 89. You shop until you find the best coin you can for the best price.
AHHH so there are others like me out there. The Red Book for those that don't know is published by Whitman Publishing and if you go to thier web site, you would see a large variety of other coin books. However, if you go to coin shows you would find the prices of all those books is significantly less. Here is one more tip. Get a small can, fill with pencils, stand on a busy corner in a large city and just beg for money. Many will just put in coins and you never know one might be a rare one. Funny story about that was a thing on TV about beggers doing stuff like that in the Chicago downtown area. One admitted he made as much as $500/day. I've always wondered if those types collect coins.
Panhandling is a major business. My father always told me of a story of when he saw a panhandler jump into his BMW after a "hard" days work on a busy intersection.
I think his store is still offline though. Give him some time and I am sure he will get it up and running.
