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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bg35765, post: 1664253, member: 42710&quot;]This isn&#039;t 1990.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t matter how small your town is, we all have access to buy and sell coins in a way that was not available 20 years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the buy side the best/easiest source of coins is the US Mint.&nbsp; You pay no sales tax and no matter how much you buy shipping is $5.&nbsp; You have easy access to weekly sales reports to track current sales, as well as easy access to historical mintage tables to give you an idea of relative rarity.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also on the buy side you have ebay.&nbsp; Of course for a well-marketed coin it is going to be difficult to make money because of the fees and shipping costs.&nbsp; But there are deals to be had on coins with blurry pictures and/or bad descriptions.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the sell side there is ebay again.&nbsp; Yes they charge a fairly substantial fee, but it is worth it for access to an entire nation of consumers.&nbsp; And there is also this forum.&nbsp; It is a much smaller group of people, but if you take your expected ebay price and discount most of the ebay fee there is a good chance you could find a buyer here.</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t been doing this long, but I have had a couple of wins.&nbsp; I doubled my money on some 2012 S Hawaii quarter rolls.&nbsp; Last Friday I bought a box of 20 2012 W Burnished Silver Eagles PCGS MS69 for $999 shipped within hours of the individual coin selling out.&nbsp; I haven&#039;t sold any, but I have seen them either disappear from some websites or have seen the individual prices increase from $55 to $70 so I think I will be in good shape on those.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also bought a set of 2012 Gold Eagle proofs.&nbsp; Those have held their value despite the price of gold dropping since they sold out.&nbsp; Admittedly I would lose money if I had to sell them now, but I bought them with the intention of holding them for 5 to 10 years or longer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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