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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 26325659, member: 77413&quot;]While I’m thinking about it, going to coin shops is not always much better.</p><ul> <li>I went to a store southeast of Trenton, an hour drive, to find out that their entire inventory had been sold a week earlier.</li> <li>I tried to visit a long-standing shop in Newtown, PA, only to find that the owner had died and that the inheritor was bulk selling everything and shutting down. He had no knowledge of coins, so I could not even ask to see anything. He did not know what it was, if he had it, or where to look.</li> <li>I spent an hour in a little hole-in-the wall somewhere in New Jersey where all the stock was in the back room. The dealer was tied up the entire time with an elderly couple with jars of uninteresting wheat cents and various junk like painted state quarters. He had to price it all and then shatter their hopes of it being valuable. I listened to this for about 45 minutes. Eventually I had to just leave and never saw anything.</li> <li>I followed an eBay seller who had a series of very high-end SLQ’s - say graded 66 and 67. I tracked them down through some sleuthing ( or cyber-stalking) and found they were located about 30 minutes north of me. I drove up there, found the store, and inside there were the owner and an assistant. The store was mostly crafts with some coins in a case to the right. The assistant knew nothing about the coins and would not talk to me or let me see them. The owner spent the entire time talking to a craftsperson about possibly showing her wares. Again, I had to leave without anyone helping me or letting me see anything. You think that a person who wants to see a $8000 coin in person would be worth your time.</li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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