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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 1104887, member: 2972&quot;]You have your work cut out for you.&nbsp; These are tough coins to find nice.&nbsp; For several reasons, I would suggest you just look rather than buy at this show.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I would not suggest &quot;offering&quot; them anything.&nbsp; I would suggest asking for their &quot;cash price&quot; or &quot;best price&quot; and agreeing to it or not.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Depends on the dealer.&nbsp; Frankly, you&#039;re better off just focusing on the coin and the price and ignoring the grade.&nbsp; Arguing about a dealer&#039;s grading is a losing proposition and equally as successful as telling a new mother her baby is ugly.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s not a bad guide, but IMO you should pass or play based on the coin and the price -- not what a guide tells you.&nbsp; If you really want a guide as to what you&#039;re going to have to pay for a nice trade or seated dollar on the bourse, you&#039;d be better off looking at PCGS price guides as a low estimate.&nbsp; The point being you will not find a nice example for price guides.&nbsp;&nbsp; Said a bit differently, finding a nice example of either ones of these coins is so difficult it will make you pay just about anything (within reason) when you find the right one.&nbsp; If you want a dipped, stripped, or possibly worse example, stick to the unslabbed ones which you will undoubtedly find for sheet values. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You will get taken for a ride if you&#039;re a noob or an expert.&nbsp; IMO, it&#039;s better to just be honest.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Find an experienced collector that&#039;s also going to the show and who doesn&#039;t mind you following them around.</p><p>2. Don&#039;t buy anything.&nbsp; Just look and listen.&nbsp; Don&#039;t be afraid to tell the dealers what you&#039;re looking for if they ask.</p><p>3. If you must buy something, figure out what you want and how much you&#039;re willing to spend BEFORE THE SHOW.&nbsp; &nbsp; For instance, I want an original looking trade dollar in XF for $250 (lol).</p><p>4. Try and figure out which dealers are the &quot;good&quot; dealers and which are the &quot;bad&quot; dealers.&nbsp; See #1 for who can point you in the right direction.&nbsp; As a noob, you want to stick to the &quot;good&quot; dealers -- but be forewarned even the best of dealers has bad coins. </p><p>5.&nbsp; BE PATIENT.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t find the right coin this time, it&#039;s not the end of the world.&nbsp; The two coins you are looking for are TOUGH coins.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been on the hunt for both of them for more than five years -- and I still don&#039;t have a seated dollar.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck &amp; I hope this helps...Mike[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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