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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1404073, member: 112"]I used to buy coins in Salt Lake all the time. But rarely from one of the shops because they rarely had anything I wanted, at the price I wanted it. I always had better luck at the local shows. There I could cherry pick. Most of my buying was always done from dealers all over the country, the world even. Or at the larger coin shows. But that's a different thing entirely than getting a collection appraised, which is what the question was. I've posted this before, a couple of times even. But a friend of mine in SL asked me about getting a collection he had inherited appraised. I told him where to go, 2 places, he did. Both places offered him face value. Now you have to understand, this collection was huge. We're talking about maybe 750 pounds of coins. I can't even describe it any other way. So when my buddy told me what he was offered I told him to bring it to me. This was back around 2001. Took me 3 1/2 months to go through that collection and appraise the coins. And I didn't even open and look at all the rolls, and loose coins. All I appraised the was albums and folders. Collection had very few dollars, only a handful. But there were 3 full sets of everything else, all 20th century coins. All the keys, all the major varieties, in each set. Back then, I figured it was well over $100k. And he got offered face. You draw your own conclusions.[/QUOTE]