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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 1492, member: 57463"]<b>Lie Down with Dogs and Wake up with Fleas</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Coins are hard to buy at flea markets and "antique malls" and similar places. I buy books occasionally, but overall, I find that prices there are "optimisitic" prices. If the booth owner is there, I have been able to negotiate on books and things. With coins, the feeling is that "someone will buy it" and someone usually does. </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I am not sure that these dealers will not always be there. My experience is that it is like any other market: some come and go; others stay. </p><p><br /></p><p>Again, comparing books to coins, no one wants books. Books are cheap. But if you get something like a Nancy Drew from 1950, the price is sky high. This is just another reprint edition, but the people who are 50 now, remember it that way from their childhoods and never having seen a real first edition, they pay $10 or so for this $1 book. Otherwise, books are pretty reasonable when you consider that what you get from a book is the KNOWLEDGE inside.</p><p><br /></p><p>You do not get much knowledge staring at a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, for me, I buy numismatic materials mostly at ANA Conventions or similar places.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other things I buy elsewhere.</p><p><br /></p><p>See, everyone is crazy for "old" tools. You cannot touch a cast iron frying pan for less than $15 even though these are NEW goods from China. People like them. Slide rules, too. Who knows how to use one? Why would you want to? But dealers put these things out at $25 and have a K+E in a Pickett case, or the cursor lost its spring or there is no cursor. But if you keep your eyes open and wait, you find stuff. It just depends.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 1492, member: 57463"][b]Lie Down with Dogs and Wake up with Fleas[/b] Coins are hard to buy at flea markets and "antique malls" and similar places. I buy books occasionally, but overall, I find that prices there are "optimisitic" prices. If the booth owner is there, I have been able to negotiate on books and things. With coins, the feeling is that "someone will buy it" and someone usually does. Also, I am not sure that these dealers will not always be there. My experience is that it is like any other market: some come and go; others stay. Again, comparing books to coins, no one wants books. Books are cheap. But if you get something like a Nancy Drew from 1950, the price is sky high. This is just another reprint edition, but the people who are 50 now, remember it that way from their childhoods and never having seen a real first edition, they pay $10 or so for this $1 book. Otherwise, books are pretty reasonable when you consider that what you get from a book is the KNOWLEDGE inside. You do not get much knowledge staring at a coin. So, for me, I buy numismatic materials mostly at ANA Conventions or similar places. Other things I buy elsewhere. See, everyone is crazy for "old" tools. You cannot touch a cast iron frying pan for less than $15 even though these are NEW goods from China. People like them. Slide rules, too. Who knows how to use one? Why would you want to? But dealers put these things out at $25 and have a K+E in a Pickett case, or the cursor lost its spring or there is no cursor. But if you keep your eyes open and wait, you find stuff. It just depends.[/QUOTE]
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