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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1985150, member: 112"]Nobody claims that they are "necessary". But they can be extremely helpful, save you a ton of money, and find you exemplary coins that you would be able to find on your own. No matter how much internet searching you did.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you know why ? Because most exemplary coins never make it into the open coin market. They are sold in private sales to people who have relationships with the dealers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin dealers are a tool for collectors. A tool is what smart people use when they want to get a job done and done as well as it can be done. Now can you do the job without this tool by using yet another tool like the internet ? Absolutely ! But how much better "could" the job have been done if you had only used the best tool available <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>edit - And yeah, I can already hear all of the replies and counter arguments. But let me ask you something. Let me ask everybody something. With all of the great collections, the ones that we all read about, the ones that make history and make each and every one of us envious and wishing that we could only own some of those coins that we are drooling over. Do you know where all of those coins came from ? Well I can tell ya it wasn't the internet. They all came from coin dealers<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1985150, member: 112"]Nobody claims that they are "necessary". But they can be extremely helpful, save you a ton of money, and find you exemplary coins that you would be able to find on your own. No matter how much internet searching you did. Do you know why ? Because most exemplary coins never make it into the open coin market. They are sold in private sales to people who have relationships with the dealers. Coin dealers are a tool for collectors. A tool is what smart people use when they want to get a job done and done as well as it can be done. Now can you do the job without this tool by using yet another tool like the internet ? Absolutely ! But how much better "could" the job have been done if you had only used the best tool available ;) edit - And yeah, I can already hear all of the replies and counter arguments. But let me ask you something. Let me ask everybody something. With all of the great collections, the ones that we all read about, the ones that make history and make each and every one of us envious and wishing that we could only own some of those coins that we are drooling over. Do you know where all of those coins came from ? Well I can tell ya it wasn't the internet. They all came from coin dealers;)[/QUOTE]
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