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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 5394551, member: 19463&quot;]Technically, as I see it, the Breitsprecher pick bin is not a pick bin but just a list of coins grouped together by the fact that the price paid is 10% coin value and 90% service charge.&nbsp; The genuine, show grade pick bin is a bowl/bag/box of coins from which you can select whatever you want for a set price.&nbsp; I have seen them within the last few years as low as $2 but recall some great Jonathan Kern bags with unidentified silver separated in $200 and $500 groups.&nbsp; These carried no ID whatsoever.&nbsp; If you could not tell which coins were owl tetradrachms and which were Tribute Pennies, that was your problem.&nbsp; One of my favorites from &#039;the day&#039; was Morris of Windsor coins who offered me a wet wipe to clean my hands when I finished with his box of bronzes.&nbsp; That was the kind of customer service that made the show experience great.&nbsp; A great advantage of that business model was that people like me would pay a higher price for a harder to sell coin because it was something I was looking for even though no one else cared in the least.&nbsp; c.1990, that was the situation with Eastern Septimius Severus.&nbsp; You could see the question on their faces, &quot;Why would anyone want that?&quot;&nbsp; I have done my part along (with several others) to make Eastern Severan into the numismatic equivalent of chicken wings.&nbsp; Once they came free with a brest but now people pay extra for them.&nbsp; Those of a certain age might remember when poor people could be given wings, necks and giblets at butcher shops along, on a good day, with flank steak before it became &#039;London Broil&#039;.&nbsp; The Internet certainly has changed everything.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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