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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;midtncoin, post: 2893201, member: 89569&quot;]GDJ,</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for the well reasoned and comprehensive response!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Re: the coin shows, I was aware of the upcoming Knoxville show.&nbsp; I generally try to attend the annual TNS show down at Chattanooga (that&#039;s the &quot;state&quot; show I was referring to) but I had actually planned to TRY to get over to Knoxville this weekend, depending on other commitments.&nbsp; We used to have a small monthly show here in the Nashville area but it stopped several years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of your other thoughts are absolutely correct.&nbsp; I am really not in any big hurry to complete any single numismatic collecting goal.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been collecting (with various levels of seriousness) for about 30 years and I&#039;ve got many series that remain incomplete.&nbsp; I could reach out to my local dealers and they could surely track down some of the missing culprits.&nbsp; And its not really about money as many of the things on my radar are not that expensive -- they just aren&#039;t very common.&nbsp; For example, I&#039;d love to finish my 3-cent nickel date set.&nbsp; They aren&#039;t too pricey but you just don&#039;t see them in a typical coin shop.</p><p><br /></p><p>I love to swing by about twice a month to my LCS and simply spend some time going through what he&#039;s got out on the floor.&nbsp; To me, the thrill in the hunt is finding those half dozen coins that I can use.&nbsp; They may not even be in the same series.&nbsp; I may have one day when I&#039;ll pick up an Indian cent and a buffalo nickel and a walker.&nbsp; But with little turn over, there&#039;s little new stuff to pick through.&nbsp; But I also wouldn&#039;t expect him to bring in hundreds of new coins each month simply to satisfy my collecting bug.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And I would love to find a dealer online with enough collector-coin inventory so that I could click through a few pages and go &quot;I&#039;d like that, and that, and that, and that.....&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So coin shows is probably my best environment to satisfy my &quot;hunt&quot; mentality.&nbsp; But with the local one no longer available, I&#039;m missing that chance to browse.&nbsp; Thank you very much for the links!&nbsp; I wasn&#039;t aware of that coinzip.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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