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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andrew McCabe, post: 7654758, member: 90666&quot;]By smaller sellers I mean companies such as Baldwin&#039;s (which no longer does any auctions so not on the list), Harlan J.Berk (ditto) and Ed Waddell at <a href="http://coin.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coin.com" rel="nofollow">http://coin.com</a> (retail only). Also all the retail sellers on <a href="https://www.thenumisplace.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.thenumisplace.com/" rel="nofollow">The NumisPlace</a> are excellent. For the bigger firms I only give 100% assurance for the nine I mention, and several of them sell very cheap coins via their e-sales.</p><p><br /></p><p>A reliable guide is that if a company did not exist before the internet era, c.2000, selling coins from bricks and mortar coins, then it&#039;s possible they do not have a history of employing real expert numismatists. They do not know what they do not know. This is the point. They may think they have the expertise without knowing that they do not (this doesn&#039;t apply to those who knowingly sell fakes or knowingly have deceptive business practices!). Nomos is an exception being run by the venerable expert Alan Walker and Roma has now a vast team of expertise, but the rest I list are all pre-internet.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you have a lot of expertise, by all means buy widely from shadier sources. But they won&#039;t be cheaper than the best dealers in the end - their provenances are worth less which will matter when reselling, and there&#039;s higher chances of doubtful coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do think this CT list gets over obsessed about minor customer service issues especially those that result from you/us being very small customers to the very biggest dealers, such as the way NAC takes a long time to invoice due to them being a small staffed company. Or postage issues. Or invoicing queries. Or response times. <b>These issues do not matter.</b> The coins will get to you in the end. Relax.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sellers who sell fakes sometimes provide great customer service. Hmmm[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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