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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1830974, member: 19463&quot;]If you are a collector or a student of coins, sooner or later you run across a coin that you really want in the stock of a seller that you find particularly repulsive for one reason or another.&nbsp; If you are a dealer or an investor, you buy and sell where the money is best.&nbsp; In either case it is not productive to swear off whole venues.&nbsp; That is a bit of the throwing out the baby with the bathwater.&nbsp; Certainly there are muddy bathwater dealers on eBay, on VCoins, at shows and in shops but equally certainly we will at some point have to decide whether we want the coin more than we want to stick with our political agenda.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Many here will not understand this because their style of collecting allows finding a coin exactly like the one we don&#039;t want to buy in the stock of another seller.&nbsp; I rarely buy a coin where I saw two alike in the same month.&nbsp; One of our CT family just posted an antoninianus of Galerius that none of the rest of us were able to match.&nbsp; I decided I wanted to own any decent antoninianus&nbsp; of either of the First Tetrarchy Caesares and was able to find two for sale online today.&nbsp; My success was only made possible by my being willing to compromise and settle for a coin of different reverse and the other Caesar in a country I have never bought from and paying $14.80 postage.&nbsp; If your wants are a bit hard to find, you might want to avoid swearing off eBay, VCoins or whoever you have been choosing to avoid.&nbsp; My experience is that that will be the one who lists the coin of your dreams.&nbsp; I have examples but will not show since I might just find that lightning strikes twice and I need to buy another coin from &#039;him&#039;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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