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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clembo, post: 346414, member: 8033&quot;]No doubt about getting to know dealers. I do own a few slabs and generally trust the biggies for grading &quot;non gimmick&quot; coins. First Strike was always a gimmick to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have been frequenting two local shops for at least 15 years and an online dealer for 10.</p><p>I loaned one dealer my BEST Two Cent set just so he could show it to customers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Trust works both ways. One used to have &quot;bargain bins&quot; in his case. I&#039;d ask for one, like Barber Halves, for example, and he&#039;d hand me the box and go to his back room to do work. Yep, leave me there wih hundreds of dollars in coins and not bat an eye. Why? because he knows I would NEVER pocket one. He respects me and I respect him.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other dealer has so much stuff he doesn&#039;t even know all of what he has. I organized STACKS of blue Whitmans for him one day. Took me hours. Nicer coins I pulled out and put in 2x2s for him. Lots of semi-key Lincolns. Trust thing again.</p><p><br /></p><p>What did I get? Well, he bought me lunch and coins I was interested in I set aside. He likes to sell in bulk with these books so I kept a few I was interested in handy.</p><p>h</p><p>Bougt a folder that had 17 Buffaloes for $17 that day. That book had a 19-D in F12 and a real nice 31-S.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorting the books was not work to me and buying nice coins cheap wasn&#039;t either.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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