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Message:: [QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 232464, member: 4552"]From well over 60 years of experience I would say in order Flea Markets, then garage/yard/estate sales, then coin shows, then hobby stores that carry coins, then coin stores and last is anything such as ebay. I've found my greatest finds at garage/yard/estate sales though but find a larger and more consistant amount of coins at flea markets. Please note I said estate sales, not estate auctions because there is a massive difference. The trick at garage/yard/estate sales is you have to ask about any coins. People just won't put coins out for the taking and I mean taking. If you ask enough eventually someone will say Oh yeah I do have this old jar full of coins. At one such place I asked and was shown a jar of cents. The bottom was loaded with Indian Cents. They said if I sat there and counted them I could have them for face value. I offered $50 instead and they took it. Face value ended up at about $35 but coin value in the thousands. At a flea market a guy sold me a black notebook full of those pages with 20 slots per page full of 2x2's. Ended up with 228 Buffalo Nickels all in at least F12, a few Jefferson Proofs and all for $80. The thing is in places like that you can see what you are buying and many people are not sure of what they have.[/QUOTE]