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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7533022, member: 19463&quot;]There already are many ways to pass coins around but they are not all that popular.&nbsp; Coin Talk has a buy/sell section most noted for the warning from management that you may be cheated if you use it.&nbsp; Are you suggesting something like our Secret Saturnalia but in the Summer?&nbsp; Few of us really want sight unseen surprises.&nbsp; There are hundreds of small dealers with reasonable coins (here on CT we have John Anthony, Valentinian, Severus Alexander and PeteB that come to mind) but all the talk here is about the high end sales.&nbsp; Several of us have consigned coins for sale to smaller dealers and can fail to recover what we paid a decade or two ago after subtracting minimum handling charges.&nbsp; That means we only offer up coins we are willing to give away.&nbsp; It seems most here are anxious to buy from big dealers even when some of them offer smoothed, tooled or questionable coins.&nbsp; I understand this when you get to a point that you only seek certain specialized things.&nbsp; For example, I would love to have many coins belonging to maridvnvm since we collect the same thing in general but what each of us would sell is not what each of us would want.&nbsp; Perhaps those with only a few coins would have an easier time finding interest in each other&#039;s cast offs?&nbsp; Any trade system has to be based on finding things we want in the possession of someone who no longer wants that item.&nbsp; That seems to be a problem these days. People don&#039;t spend long as beginners buying beginner coins before moving on to EF or better only.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Some of us have many/all our coins posted online.&nbsp; At least one offers to trade from those posted.&nbsp; I wonder how many trades that has led to.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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