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<p>[QUOTE="mark_h, post: 801280, member: 3726"]There are a lot of good dealers around in my opinion, but I would not limit myself to one dealer. I have only worked with a couple of dealers for specific coins - local mostly. I would also include heritage, teletrade and some other auction houses into the list. What you can to for the type set is target a coin type - for example nickels, concentrate, look at a lot, pick the best you can afford. Depending on the grades and your skill set - I would stick with NGC and PCGS, but the best you can afford. Study the cost at various grades - some coins will jump a few bucks between grades and others 100's of dollars. So attack them by type in, as Paul says, short runs. Try to build each type as a matching set. Enough mini-runs like that and you endup with a complete type set. Plus you can leave out some of the earlier flowing hair coins. Just my humble opinion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mark_h, post: 801280, member: 3726"]There are a lot of good dealers around in my opinion, but I would not limit myself to one dealer. I have only worked with a couple of dealers for specific coins - local mostly. I would also include heritage, teletrade and some other auction houses into the list. What you can to for the type set is target a coin type - for example nickels, concentrate, look at a lot, pick the best you can afford. Depending on the grades and your skill set - I would stick with NGC and PCGS, but the best you can afford. Study the cost at various grades - some coins will jump a few bucks between grades and others 100's of dollars. So attack them by type in, as Paul says, short runs. Try to build each type as a matching set. Enough mini-runs like that and you endup with a complete type set. Plus you can leave out some of the earlier flowing hair coins. Just my humble opinion.[/QUOTE]
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