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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 2774066, member: 42034&quot;]Collect nice foreign coins instead.&nbsp; You can go to a major show and not find a single piece, not at any price.&nbsp; I go to these local coin shows and they ask me what I&#039;m looking for.&nbsp; I tell them I need an Ecuadorian 8 reals in mint state, maybe a nice 63.&nbsp; They then tell me &quot;well maybe I&#039;ll get one some day&quot;.&nbsp; Actually I think one&#039;s chances of getting hit by a meteorite may be higher than finding that coin at a dealer&#039;s who doesn&#039;t know what it is beforehand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dear <b><font size="4"><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/eng.44227/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/eng.44227/">Eng</a>&nbsp; Senior Eng,</font></b></p><p>Interesting note.&nbsp; If I ever see you at a coin show &amp; if you want I can try to start a copper buying frenzy by buying 20 of the things when you have customers.&nbsp; I&#039;d have to return them after the show however.</p><p><br /></p><p>Actually I&#039;m thinking that I&#039;d really like to get some 90% silver half dollars: a much larger quantity than I can get by just getting them out of the banks here at face. &lt;= possible but it takes a long time to get them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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