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<p>[QUOTE="andy21us, post: 394539, member: 2452"]For me the internet has made getting info a lot more easyer. Other then buying from the Mint and a few dealers I still like buying coins the old fashion way from shops and shows. There are to many cons and rip off artist out there on the internet for me to buy coins from someone I do not know or trust.</p><p><br /></p><p>But to answer your questions: I think that the internet has help raise prices on coins just for the fact that the internet has made coins more available to the novice collector. When I started collecting you had to go to shows, a shop if you could fine one, buy books or magazines if you could find them, or buy a graysheet/greensheet to get the info or coins (high grade coins) you were looking for. But as Cloudsweeper has stated the 60's, 70's, and even into the eary 80's you could still find coins in circulation that you can not find today. It was not uncommon to find teens, 20's, 30's, and 40's coins back then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="andy21us, post: 394539, member: 2452"]For me the internet has made getting info a lot more easyer. Other then buying from the Mint and a few dealers I still like buying coins the old fashion way from shops and shows. There are to many cons and rip off artist out there on the internet for me to buy coins from someone I do not know or trust. But to answer your questions: I think that the internet has help raise prices on coins just for the fact that the internet has made coins more available to the novice collector. When I started collecting you had to go to shows, a shop if you could fine one, buy books or magazines if you could find them, or buy a graysheet/greensheet to get the info or coins (high grade coins) you were looking for. But as Cloudsweeper has stated the 60's, 70's, and even into the eary 80's you could still find coins in circulation that you can not find today. It was not uncommon to find teens, 20's, 30's, and 40's coins back then.[/QUOTE]
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