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<p>[QUOTE="someconcerns, post: 1715062, member: 51052"]From my perspective, having done the bank search thing back in the 1960-80 era, you need to have progressively lower standards for how many keepers justify going back for more. I did - around the end of that era - place the occasional local ad that I was a buyer for coins. You could try that, but it only takes one bad dude to end your collecting. </p><p><br /></p><p>I guess simply spreading by word of mouth that you buy coins might find you something. When I was known at work as a dealer/collector, some people would come to see me, sometimes with spectacular coins. The safest thing I did was to offer to appraise collections/accumulations. However, I always felt it was a conflict to wear more than one hat at a time and that it was somewhat unethical (IMHO) to buy coins you were specifically asked to appraise as it was a conflict of interest. So the appraisal fees ended up paying for some coins with no searching involved.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="someconcerns, post: 1715062, member: 51052"]From my perspective, having done the bank search thing back in the 1960-80 era, you need to have progressively lower standards for how many keepers justify going back for more. I did - around the end of that era - place the occasional local ad that I was a buyer for coins. You could try that, but it only takes one bad dude to end your collecting. I guess simply spreading by word of mouth that you buy coins might find you something. When I was known at work as a dealer/collector, some people would come to see me, sometimes with spectacular coins. The safest thing I did was to offer to appraise collections/accumulations. However, I always felt it was a conflict to wear more than one hat at a time and that it was somewhat unethical (IMHO) to buy coins you were specifically asked to appraise as it was a conflict of interest. So the appraisal fees ended up paying for some coins with no searching involved.[/QUOTE]
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