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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2826096, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;m older than Bing and younger than Jamesicus.&nbsp; I drive when the show has free parking in a good neighborhood but have stopped driving far and wide.&nbsp; I have written off Europe as more trouble than it is worth as a source.&nbsp; You might see that there is a pattern of change from Bing&#039;s age to my age to Jamesicus&#039; age.&nbsp; I have a friend in his 90&#039;s who goes to shows pushed in his wheelchair by his son.&nbsp; Should I warn my daughter or let her find out the hard way?</p><p><br /></p><p>The above is about as wise words as you will find on this hobby.&nbsp; If a &#039;deal&#039; is not pleasurable and gets you into trouble it was not much of a deal after all whatever your age.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That is a real problem with me.&nbsp; The dealer that has provided more coins for my collection than any is Frank Robinson (fsrcoin) but I bought ten times as many coins from him in the first 15 years than in the last 15.&nbsp; He buys coins he thinks will sell well to his customers and avoids things he fears won&#039;t sell (sounds like a good business plan).&nbsp; My specialties tend to be &#039;strange&#039; and not as good a fit as when I &#039;discovered&#039; him.&nbsp; My current favorite dealers now are all &#039;show only&#039; guys.&nbsp; Some of them buy things that did not sell in &#039;name&#039; sales because of stupid reserves at prices that allows them to sell to me.&nbsp; Some of them buy things that are as strange as I am.&nbsp; Many of their coins are consignments from people whose grandfather might have been a friend of mine.&nbsp; All the sellers mentioned in this thread are good people but aiming your purchases at things I would buy may be a fast track to the poor house.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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