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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1377465, member: 26302&quot;]Good point. I tell people this all of the time, that what you really want to collect is what most dealers don&#039;t have. What I mean is nice, pretty, problem free rare coins. Its seriously not as easy as you think, looking around a coin show at the tens of thousands of coins. However, so many of these are &quot;old stock&quot;, meaning they have been picked through forever, many coins are either horribly common, or have issues, and the like. </p><p><br /></p><p>You have a dealer who brings to a show nice, original, higher grade SL, CB, DB, Barbers, or similar, fairly priced, and they will sell without a discount. There is a very strong market for nice original pieces, and dealers know they don&#039;t have to haggle, the pieces will sell. If you are a buyer and see such pieces for sale, and they are fairly priced, you would be best advised to get them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a weird little story that I witnessed once. A dealer had just bought earlier in the show an old collection. A collector saw them and was wishing to buy some. This collector was a &quot;classic&quot; haggler, meaning he tried to work evey angle. He would ask the price each, then put it back and ask again, sometimes he acted like he misheard the price and told the dealer a lower price, etc. Then, when the dealer thought he had a deal for a few coins, the guy tries to pull the whole &quot;hey I am buying quite a few, what price do I get on these?&quot;. At that point the dealer silently pulled all of the coins back and put them behind his table, refusing to sell anything to him. I know this wasn&#039;t the nature of your post OP, but sometimes hagglers can get shut out. Maybe it was me witnessing this when I was about 13 that makes me nervous about trying to dicker. I ask for a best price, and either buy or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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