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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1399754, member: 26302"]I find "having to" buy a coin at nearly any price is the sure mark of a collector. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Wear it with pride. </p><p><br /></p><p>Dealers or "investors" will buy anything for the right price. Collectors are the only ones in the game that are the addicts. Dealers know this, which is why sometimes dealers can stay in business while priced very high. They get good stuff, charge a mint for it, but eventually collectors will break down and "have to have it". There is an early copper dealer out of Omaha that was always my example of this. Some of the best early copper you will ever see. The reason he had so much, though, was that he charged well above red book for everything. 20 years ago you may be lucky to find one AG chain cent at a show, but he would have 8-10 of them from vg-xf. If you wanted one, you had to pay his price.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1399754, member: 26302"]I find "having to" buy a coin at nearly any price is the sure mark of a collector. :) Wear it with pride. Dealers or "investors" will buy anything for the right price. Collectors are the only ones in the game that are the addicts. Dealers know this, which is why sometimes dealers can stay in business while priced very high. They get good stuff, charge a mint for it, but eventually collectors will break down and "have to have it". There is an early copper dealer out of Omaha that was always my example of this. Some of the best early copper you will ever see. The reason he had so much, though, was that he charged well above red book for everything. 20 years ago you may be lucky to find one AG chain cent at a show, but he would have 8-10 of them from vg-xf. If you wanted one, you had to pay his price.[/QUOTE]
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