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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2893037, member: 112&quot;]Well that&#039;s kind of the thing - they can. At least most of them can anyway. Most dealers belong to at least one of the electronic dealer markets and they have tens if not hundreds of thousands of coins available every day. And those that don&#039;t belong or use one of the electronic markets have many other dealer contacts. My point is this, almost all dealers get their coins from other dealers. So whatever it is you want just ask your local dealers to find it for you. It would be a rare occasion when they could not do that.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This presents another element of coin collecting - time. Some collectors spend their entire lives trying, and not always succeeding, to complete their collection. Others might spend a couple decades doing so. And the very lucky, well it depends on the collection of course but even they usually take 5-10 years to do it. </p><p><br /></p><p>The point here is patience, a coin collector needs a lot of it. When I was still collecting it was not at all unusual for me to spend 3-4 years looking for just 1 coin. And some I never found. For example, when I was collecting US coins I was trying to put together a complete set of the annual Mint Sets and Proof Sets all in original packaging. And I looked everywhere, utilizing every resource. In the early years all there was was coin shows, coin shops, and magazine ads. But when the internet came along there were a lot more places to look. I used to attend 5-10 coin shows a year, every year, and at each one I would look through every Mint and Proof set that every dealer there had. At one show I might look through several hundred. But even after several decades of doing this the sets still weren&#039;t complete. I still needed 2 Mint Sets from the 40&#039;s and all 5 of the &#039;36-&#039;41 Proof Sets. I never did find those sets. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Other shows for one. Yeah you might have to travel a bit, I used to sometimes travel a thousand miles or more to attend a coin show. But you can do it, and from where you live there are quite a few large shows every year within driving distance. Not sure if you are aware but there&#039;s one in Knoxville on Nov. 3-5th.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can check here to find shows within driving distance - </p><p><a href="http://coinzip.com/index.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coinzip.com/index.php" rel="nofollow">http://coinzip.com/index.php</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Or here - <a href="http://www.numismaster.com/ta/inside_numis.jsp?page=CoinShowsCalendar&amp;ThisWeek=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.numismaster.com/ta/inside_numis.jsp?page=CoinShowsCalendar&amp;ThisWeek=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.numismaster.com/ta/inside_numis.jsp?page=CoinShowsCalendar&amp;ThisWeek=1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Or here - <a href="http://www.coininfo.com/coin_shows/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coininfo.com/coin_shows/" rel="nofollow">http://www.coininfo.com/coin_shows/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Or here - <a href="http://www.coinshows.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinshows.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinshows.com/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And in today&#039;s world, with the internet, you can interact with other dealers and or collectors literally anywhere without ever leaving your home. All you have to do is contact them and ask them if they have the coins you want. If they don&#039;t, keep looking.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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