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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jlblonde, post: 1602744, member: 32000&quot;]It is a very nice coin. Congrats.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know how you feel. There are some dealers like that around here in the LA area. One old guy looks like a miner &#039;49er, always has a cigarette in his mouth and doesn&#039;t care much for selling to ordinary collectors, he deals mainly with big transactions. Two other shop owners are highly political and spout their views to every customer, another owner doesn&#039;t know anything about coins and most of the other dealers are bullion traders. </p><p><br /></p><p>To most dealers around here, foreign coins are kind of a nuisance. They acquire them as part of a larger buy usually consisting of US silver coins as the primary intention of purchasing the lot. They&#039;ll quickly sift through the foreign stuff looking for unusual or precious metal items. The rest go into bins which may sit for years before they&#039;re placed out for sale. To make space, most dealers will sell them by the pound so they don&#039;t end up with a lot of real junk that no one will ever buy. A lot of dealers that I know of either inherited the shop from a family member or have worked in them since they were kids. Most only collect extremely rare coins or in some cases non at all, but they all have gun collections.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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