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Message:: [QUOTE="clembo, post: 534509, member: 8033"]Interesting question for sure and it varies from dealer to dealer. My boss has run a shop for 42 years now and I know he's been cherrypicked on occasion but as Ruben said buy low sell high.Organization? What's that? We know where the "big stuff" is but I literally trip over other stuff at times. A good rapport with your customers can really help in not getting severly cherrypicked. We do look for the "big" errors but frankly don't have the ime to look for the small.Years ago I was browsing through a box of "stuff" and noticed a 39 Double Die Jefferson. Told the owner (now my boss) and he said sell it on ebay and we'd split. Cool I made some money, he made some money and I remained in good standing. We have a customer that specializes in tokens. He'll tell us if it's scarce which in turn usually gets him a BETTER price.We have another that buys wheats at 5 cents each, searches them then sells back at 4 cents each. He's found some good varieties that we have no time to look for so it works out for everyone in the long run. There was many a time when someone would walk in with small size U.S. paper money and I'd be there as a customer. He'd hand it to me and ask if he should buy any. Then he'd let ME make offers and that's a privilege in any shop. Get to know the speciallists and give them good treatment and they can be very helpful. Any shop would LOVE to be able to scrutinize ANY coin that walks in but it would be impracticle. I sort through "junk silver" when I have time and then usually on a hunch by the wear patterns I see.Best finds to date are a 16-D Mercury and 32-D and S Washingtons. I can only imagine how many good coins he has sold in bulk.[/QUOTE]

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