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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cpm9ball, post: 1931956, member: 24633&quot;]Okay, I&#039;ll take the flip side of this suggestion.</p><p><br /></p><p>First, the OP has already said that he uses APMEX pretty much for all of his purchases, and does not care for SleazeBay. I don&#039;t blame him! Obviously, he won&#039;t be able to cherrypick specimens from APMEX. His only alternatives would be local B&amp;M&#039;s or coin shows.</p><p><br /></p><p>Because of overhead considerations, local B&amp;M&#039;s won&#039;t normally have a large quantity of raw, same date/mm on hand for him to compare. It&#039;s just not profitable. His best opportunity to examine a large supply of a specific coin would be at coin shows if he doesn&#039;t mind moving from table to table.</p><p><br /></p><p>In either case, most dealers take advantage of bulk submissions so they don&#039;t have to spend any time grading the coins themselves. The advantage to this is that they can specify a minimum grade, wherein, all others are returned to them raw. They hope to receive enough 70&#039;s from a given submission where they can earn the greatest profit and break even on the lower grades. Any coins that are returned to them ungraded are those which the collector will probably encounter trying to cherrypick them raw.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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