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<p>[QUOTE="Publius2, post: 24799390, member: 105571"]Go to the FUN website in December once they've published the dealer attendance list. Look for those dealers that carry the kind of material you are interested in. If you don't know which dealers those are, start down the list and Google their name looking for their website. You won't get 100% hits this way but you'll have a start. </p><p><br /></p><p>For example, if you are interested in Indian Head Cents, particularly in high grades, then you will want to know where the tables of The Penny Lady and Eagle Eye Rare Coins are located. That's not to say they are the only purveyors of IHCs but they are well-known specialists in the series and they will almost certainly be there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Similarly, Gerry Fortin is a dealer primarily in early silver and especially in Liberty Seated coinage. It is a certainty he will be there since he's giving an educational lecture on Liberty Seated Dimes.</p><p><br /></p><p>To some extent, you just have to be paying attention to the marketplace and the dealers for a period of time to know who's who, but you can cut that knowledge deficit down considerably if you do some homework ahead of time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, if what you're interested in is Morgan Dollars, you don't have to do any research at all. Every dealer there will have Morgan Dollars. Cases and cases and cases of them as far as the eye can see. Very popular, those Morgans.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Publius2, post: 24799390, member: 105571"]Go to the FUN website in December once they've published the dealer attendance list. Look for those dealers that carry the kind of material you are interested in. If you don't know which dealers those are, start down the list and Google their name looking for their website. You won't get 100% hits this way but you'll have a start. For example, if you are interested in Indian Head Cents, particularly in high grades, then you will want to know where the tables of The Penny Lady and Eagle Eye Rare Coins are located. That's not to say they are the only purveyors of IHCs but they are well-known specialists in the series and they will almost certainly be there. Similarly, Gerry Fortin is a dealer primarily in early silver and especially in Liberty Seated coinage. It is a certainty he will be there since he's giving an educational lecture on Liberty Seated Dimes. To some extent, you just have to be paying attention to the marketplace and the dealers for a period of time to know who's who, but you can cut that knowledge deficit down considerably if you do some homework ahead of time. Now, if what you're interested in is Morgan Dollars, you don't have to do any research at all. Every dealer there will have Morgan Dollars. Cases and cases and cases of them as far as the eye can see. Very popular, those Morgans.[/QUOTE]
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