I recently purchased a Dansco "US Type Album" (1800 onward). Can anybody refer me to a good dealer website to buy the easier to obtain examples of the various types at a reasonable price? I am looking for a place that has coins in bulk, not an individual coin auction site. Also, I am guessing my best bet in filling this album would be to find the most minted year for each coin- will that also be my best bet at finding a decent specimen for a reasonable (i.e. fairly cheap) price? Any advice from anyone who's done one of these type albums would be appreciated. Thanks, Andy
I'm not sure what you mean by "coins in bulk" ?? Coins generally are not sold that way, they are sold individually. You can however buy bags of modern cents ( usually $50 face value ) and you can buy $1000 face value bags of silver. Both of these have substantial premiums of course, but they are about the only way to buy coins in bulk that I know of. Yes it will. But you need to realize that type collecting is popular and therefore certain type coins are not cheap by any description. If you want to complete a type set, your best bet is to buy each and every coin one at a time. Most of them you will have to buy that way anyhow.
Yeah, I guess that was confusing when I said "coins in bulk." What I meant was, sites that will have a large variety of each type of coin available for purchase at set prices...as opposed to individual auctions for each coin.
skinnyeddie, when putting together your type set, I would suggest not looking for the coins with the highest mintage just to fill holes. Do your research first. Often times, you will be able to obtain coins that have significantly lower mintages than the most minted coins for the same price or just a small premium over the most common. If you buy the most common date for each type, your collection will have a lesser chance of being worth more someday than if you buy the most common issues. Even if you're just a collector, thinking of potential value is important in my mind. If you have two coins, one has a mintage of 500,000 and the other 75,000, but both have relatively high percentages of surviving coins, it might just be the case that they're close to the same price...I'd buy the one that had 75,000. This is particularly evident in the US Gold Series, so do your homework and have fun! Oh, and I might suggest www.harlanjberk.com as a place to start as I've heard good things about them.
The answer to your question really depends on what you consider "fairly cheap". If you provide some more info, I'd be happy to recommend a dealer or two who can help....Mike
