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<p>[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 7878743, member: 74282"]Don't sweat it - if someone comes over and you're obviously interrupting a sale, perhaps walk away and come back later, but don't be afraid to look at coins you won't buy. I always try to look at as many of the coins I'm interested in as possible when I'm at shows. I've even told dealers I can't afford the coins I'm looking at, I'm just interested in looking because I've never examined an example of that type close up before, and most are happy to oblige.</p><p><br /></p><p>I certainly wasn't about to make Aaron Berk an offer on this Eid Mar that hammered for $300k earlier in the week when I went over to his booth to see it at NYINC 2020, I just heard he'd won it for a client and I wanted to see it, and he was happy to let me have a look. I'd never actually bought a coin from Berk at all before that, I'd just had a few conversations with the guys there over the years at shows and online. Since then I've bought a couple of coins from them, but nowhere near 1% of the value of this denarius. That said, I did make sure I wasn't getting in the way of any customers who might actually have something to buy, and I did make sure to actually look through their coins when I was done in case there was something for me.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1358406[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 7878743, member: 74282"]Don't sweat it - if someone comes over and you're obviously interrupting a sale, perhaps walk away and come back later, but don't be afraid to look at coins you won't buy. I always try to look at as many of the coins I'm interested in as possible when I'm at shows. I've even told dealers I can't afford the coins I'm looking at, I'm just interested in looking because I've never examined an example of that type close up before, and most are happy to oblige. I certainly wasn't about to make Aaron Berk an offer on this Eid Mar that hammered for $300k earlier in the week when I went over to his booth to see it at NYINC 2020, I just heard he'd won it for a client and I wanted to see it, and he was happy to let me have a look. I'd never actually bought a coin from Berk at all before that, I'd just had a few conversations with the guys there over the years at shows and online. Since then I've bought a couple of coins from them, but nowhere near 1% of the value of this denarius. That said, I did make sure I wasn't getting in the way of any customers who might actually have something to buy, and I did make sure to actually look through their coins when I was done in case there was something for me. [ATTACH=full]1358406[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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