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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nerosmyfavorite68, post: 25351445, member: 134416&quot;]I like #1 the best.&nbsp; For example, the manager of the local coin store is very nice, and if it&#039;s a raw coin, a variant of #1 happens.&nbsp; If the place isn&#039;t busy, there&#039;s a lot of pleasant chit chat, and what not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not only that, but when I went there in person when I was having a health crisis and temporarily staying with my parents, he was very kind.&nbsp; Not only did he give my dad a deep discount on a coin, when I tried to purchase a couple of coin boxes (these particular ones were stuffed with those cardboard flips), he refused payment and gave two of them to me for free. The price on those was 11 each, or similar.&nbsp; I had to throw the flips away, as I only needed the boxes, but I thought that was kind.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s been 14 years or so since I&#039;ve been to a coin show.&nbsp; I&#039;ll usually do a walkaround first, scope out what they have, clearly address to them that the first time is a walkaround, and come back to what I like best.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hate when there&#039;s no prices on there, but it doesn&#039;t seem to happen too much with the dealers in ancients, IIRC.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s also a much rarer, but good for the buyer scenario.&nbsp; At a tiny local coin show in 2009, a dealer happened to have a common, but super-nice Antoninianus of Probus.&nbsp; I asked, how much? (was one of those cases where I had to ask).&nbsp; Twenty dollars was the reply.&nbsp; &quot;Twenty!&quot; I exclaimed incredulously because it was so cheap.&nbsp; &quot;Yes, and I won&#039;t go lower,&quot; said he, thinking I was haggling.&nbsp; I shoved that 20 over so fast...&nbsp; Such a coin would have been $70-100 even then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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