Ancient Coin Dealer List

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Don't forget MA-shops; they are usually cheaper than V-Coins.

I'm guessing this isn't supposed to include the auction houses like Lanz and Gorny & Mosch...

 

Bargain Bin Ancients The name is accurate
Museum Surplus Occasionally some interesting and reasonably priced items
AU Capital Management A small but growing assortment of slabbed ancients, high grade, all "*"/"Ch"/"fine style" and/or uncommon coins. (@Zohar444 should check it out )
Frank S. Robinson He doesn't have a traditional webstore but his mail bid sales are quite popular.
Great Collections Primarily a US coin site but they do usually have a dozen or two ancients-- the same never-selling handful relisted over and over and over since they are mostly unremarkable and overpriced. Still worth a regular inspection since occasionally something good is listed. When possible their coins are slabbed. The currently listed Yap stone is unslabbed


Mine is slabbed

 

I have to wonder if there's a premium associated with the extra big CACA sticker?

Nice list, greekpryde, thanks! I haven't visited some of those.

 

Gitbud & Naumann

 

Like several auction houses, G&N has a mirror store on eBay and Vcoins so perhaps that's why geekpryde didn't list them and others. Civitas has a Vcoins store too though and it made the list.

Because of the multiple selling venues for many ancient coin dealers, making a list which excludes individual Vcoins stores may be difficult. Maybe we should include dealers who maintain a stand-alone website even if it has the same for-sale content as their Vcoins and/or eBay stores.

 

Agreed. It pays to look everywhere. Sometimes a dealer has inventory listed on his/her site that isn't listed in their vcoins or eBay stores. And frequently the price of the inventory is lower on their sites. If I buy a coin from directly from FORVM, I'm going to pay around 15% less for it than I would if I bought it from their eBay store.

 

Ah, very nice list pryde. Shall definitely use this in the future.

 

Den of Antiquity
HJB
WCNCoinonline
Lucernae
Ancient Trerasures

 

Wait... where did the "highly recommended" bit come from on Great Collections? I hope not from what I said. To rephrase, they have only a few ancients, usually low quality yet slabbed and overpriced. That's why the same coins appear cycle after cycle. No one wants them even at the opening bid price.

Occasionally (ok, once) I found a true winner there. They're certainly a good seller in terms of mechanics but their ancient selection is lacking. I added them to the list just to be thorough.

 

Pegasi Numismatics & Spartan Numismatics

Sphinx Numismatics (also at Vcoins)

 

I'm not sure you need to remove GC, just list it with the caveat that they specialize in US coins and don't have much of a selection of ancients. Most of us detest the slabs, but a few don't.

 

I won't buy replicas. i

WCN: http://stores.ebay.com/wcnconline?_rdc=1
Ancient Treasures: http://stores.ebay.com/ANCIENT-TREASURES?_rdc=1
lucernae: Ebay seller from Spain. No ebay store