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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 2089418, member: 19250&quot;]Ok good question&nbsp;&nbsp; depending&nbsp;&nbsp; on your situation&nbsp; let&#039;s say you&#039;re&nbsp; at a show with items you want to sell. You have a list of wants or have walked the show and spotted&nbsp; something&nbsp; that you have to have. </p><p>No dealer I know are going to give you retail for your coins.</p><p>Most use grey sheet and make an offer below the value,if the coin is a semi key or key, as common&nbsp;&nbsp; dates they are going to offer&nbsp; melt. I try at this point to work a trade. My coin and cash for your coin.</p><p>I myself would try to sell on e bay , coinzip or another auction site.&nbsp; Remember going this route still has cost Fee&#039;s and shipping .Now I have been in a situation&nbsp; where my find at the show is a have to have item. At that point be ready to take hit. </p><p>I always keep a record mostly in my head of the cost I paid for an item. I also research the current&nbsp; value of said coin. Maybe today is not the day you want to sell as fee&#039;s or&nbsp; the spot market is down.</p><p>I will tell you this..... in all the years I have collected&nbsp; the scales have balanced out.&nbsp; There are times where you&#039;re&nbsp;&nbsp; going to hit a home run other times strike out ever time at bat.</p><p>l suggest&nbsp; dollar cost averaging . Meaning buy smart and sell smart. Know what the market bears , for both the coin medal content as well as the coins worth as to its&nbsp; date and condition.</p><p>As very few things we buy in life increase&nbsp;&nbsp; in value ,you need to know and understand&nbsp;&nbsp; the market.</p><p>A perfect example is at a show I was working a guy came in with a complete&nbsp; set of Franklin&nbsp; half dollars. A nice uncirculated&nbsp; set in a nice Capital&nbsp; holder. No dealers&nbsp;&nbsp; were interested&nbsp; in buying&nbsp;&nbsp; , not even for spot. Most of the dealers&nbsp;&nbsp; were like hand them down to your kids.</p><p>Now let&#039;s&nbsp;&nbsp; say silver goes way up like it was a few years back&nbsp; now the time to unload everything&nbsp; that no longer interest you. </p><p>Understanding&nbsp;&nbsp; that&nbsp; trends do change , what hot now may not be later on. </p><p>Some series&nbsp; are always in demand by collectors. I suggest&nbsp;&nbsp; reading, researching before buying ,and selling&nbsp;&nbsp; for that matter.</p><p>One other thing to consider&nbsp; is this let&#039;s say you have a coin of very high value. You may have to wait a long time before you find a buyer&nbsp; with pockets deep enough&nbsp; to buy it.</p><p>If I can buy a coin that is MS 69 for $300 and the same coin in MS 70 is a $1000. What are you going to buy?</p><p><br /></p><p>So having a rare perfect&nbsp;&nbsp; coin can have issues too getting a fair price. Bottom line&nbsp; if you collect&nbsp; as an investment&nbsp; you&#039;re&nbsp; collecting for the wrong reason. Buy smart sell smart...... and collect smart.&nbsp; </p><p>Lastly there are no collectors&nbsp; here whom have not made mistakes. Both buying&nbsp; and selling. I venture&nbsp; to say&nbsp; every collectors&nbsp; here have wished that they never sold a certain&nbsp;&nbsp; coin they have had or passed on a coin they wanted to buy.</p><p>It&#039;s&nbsp;&nbsp; all part of the hobby.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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