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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1962687, member: 66&quot;]When buying bullion type coins from a dealer you don&#039;t ask what the &quot;market value&quot; or the &quot;real value&quot; is.&nbsp; You want to know what they will sell that coin for right now and what they will pay for that same coin right now.&nbsp; (I assume you already know what the spot price is.)&nbsp; This will tell you what their buy/sell spread is and what their markup over spot is.&nbsp; And if they charge a &quot;transaction fee&quot; go elsewhere.&nbsp; There should be no reason for a transaction fee, they make their money on the buy/sell spread.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is true if you are buying the current years proof gold and silver eagles.&nbsp; If you are looking for a previous years coins you have to buy from a dealer, because the mint isn&#039;t selling them.&nbsp; In that case they will probably be more than issue price.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Possibly convenience.&nbsp; They are buying and selling constantly.&nbsp; So they will pay a little higher to get the coins NOW rather than having to order and wait for the Mint to get around to sending them.&nbsp; If I have people calling in and ordering proof silver eagles I need to buy coins and have them NOW not in two or three weeks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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