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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tradernick, post: 51461, member: 648&quot;]I can shed some light on this, I think...although my time seems to be tight these days and I can&#039;t visit here as often as I&#039;d like.&nbsp; I have a small but very busy coin shop.&nbsp; I buy a LOT of stuff, virtually every day there&#039;s collections coming in...sometimes just a handful, sometimes entire estates...boxes and boxes of stuff.&nbsp; Also, after years in the business I&#039;ve got many established dealer friends that sell to me when they have accumulated a lot.&nbsp; Sometimes they ship it to me, sometimes they bring it to the store, sometimes we meet at a show.&nbsp; In turn I have some customers that buy this from me, either to sell on ebay, sell at flea markets, or maybe they have an order from one of their customers etc.&nbsp; </p><p>The bulk items usually are:</p><p>1. Wheat cents.&nbsp; I buy these &quot;over the counter&quot;, at coin shows, and from other dealers.&nbsp; Typically they&#039;re traded in bags of 5000.&nbsp; $50 face value in a bag.&nbsp; I sometimes buy/sell 30-50 bags in a month.</p><p>2. Foreign coins.&nbsp; Again this can come from other dealers, private collections, etc.&nbsp; Also many banks supply me with their long time accumulations.&nbsp; This is tricky because I have to buy it ALL and there could be a ton of it (literally) and I have to take everything, they want it all gone so there&#039;s no cherrypicking and no culling stuff out.</p><p>Some high volume foreign coin dealers can be good sources of this material.&nbsp; It&#039;s nothing for me to buy/sell 1000 pounds per month.&nbsp; I&#039;ve owned 10k pounds at one time on more than one occasion.&nbsp; My biggest deal to date was 66 tons.</p><p>3. 90% silver and 40% silver coins.&nbsp; These trade in bags of $1000 face value.&nbsp; There&#039;s always a market for this stuff.&nbsp; Usually small dealers accumulate enough to sell to the big dealers, who in turn supply it to each other, to investors, and to small dealers who have orders for it from their customers.&nbsp; </p><p>There&#039;s other bulk stuff too but these are the most common items.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m always willing to help if I can.&nbsp; If anyone wants more info you can pm me or email or phone or messenger pigeon or whatever.&nbsp; Just understand that this is not something you can simply start doing.&nbsp; It takes a LONG time to cultivate some of these contacts.&nbsp; Hope this info has contributed to the thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>Best,</p><p>Nick[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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