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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RabidRick, post: 1979574, member: 37868&quot;]Look on auction sites and find some good dealers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Go to shows, know your stuff and find someone who has several pieces you want and see what they can do about the price. Tell them you are looking for nice pieces at wholesale / FMV price. Who knows? They may have some beauties they got for really cheap.</p><p><br /></p><p>That really depends on what you want; different delers specialize in different things. Most stores don&#039;t have much of anything these days, at least around here. Occasionally I&#039;ll walk into a random store (antique, jewlery, pawn shop, gold broker, whatever) who has ancients and has no idea what they are worth. One time I was able to score 5 Athens Tetradrachms for 80 a piece when they should have been around 200-300.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is one dealer in SF I really like who has a good inventory and is very helpful and honest. He DOES know his stuff, too. A handful of other honest ones exist too, but they have almost nothing I&#039;d want. Then you get the ones who tell you there are problems with your coin that don&#039;t exist. Most dealers hate me right off the bat anyway, because of what I ask, the resources I have and I even have a loupe on my keychain. You never know when you might run into something.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, on sites like eBay MAKE AN OFFER if you don&#039;t like the price.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve gotten 10% on a few high-end coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, make sure to subscribe to a resource where you can get the gray sheet or wholesale values. The NGC and PCGS price guides are grossly inflated.</p><p><br /></p><p>The next best resource is auction realized prices. This is all you can really go by for ancients anyway, since you can&#039;t get good books written after the 70&#039;s but once you focus on an area and look at many auctions you get a sense of what most things are worth (excluding rare varieties and stuff, unless that&#039;s your thing).</p><p><br /></p><p>Funny thing, in Chinatown they were selling Morgans and Trade Dollars for $10 a piece but they were all counterfeits. I could tell just by holding one. Otherwise I would have bought the lot XD[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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