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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nerosmyfavorite68, post: 25646047, member: 134416&quot;]I&#039;m sure it&#039;s second nature to you, just like ancient coins are second nature to me.&nbsp; But this would be helpful for U.S. newbies. What are some reputable U.S. dealers, large or small, that offer mail order?</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s just really frustrating, not being able to get what I want (not that rare), and I don&#039;t know where to go. There doesn&#039;t seem to be a U.S. version of vcoins. Oh, I&#039;m sure I could call up HJB or somewhere like that, but that&#039;d be much&nbsp; more expensive.</p><p><br /></p><p>My only U.S. coin purchase disappeared in the mail. I would have been satistfied with that coin and left it at that, but it&#039;s frustrating.&nbsp; I&#039;d like to perhaps get a nicely toned Morgan (pre-1895). Mint doesn&#039;t matter.&nbsp; The toning does.&nbsp; I&#039;d like a nice-looking coin that isn&#039;t too expensive (say below $150).</p><p><br /></p><p>Vcoins offers very few U.S. coins and the guy who has by far the best ones was the one where it disappeared.&nbsp; He seemed quite honest and I don&#039;t think it had anything to do with him.&nbsp; I just mentioned that because I don&#039;t think he wanted to be bothered with trying again.&nbsp; I had chosen an almost as good example some months later, but I received no reply to my email (I would have had to, in order to avoid priority or registered).</p><p><br /></p><p>I also tried ma-shops, albeit not recently.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d like to avoid priority mail, if possible, and go first class.&nbsp; There&#039;s a picture of the disappeared one, just to show what I&#039;m looking for.&nbsp; I&#039;m looking for some iridescence, especially on the obverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1640676[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And I never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but a slabbed example is probably best. The raw Morgan I had quickly and violently toned.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s very frustrating. It&#039;d be a decent drive to a semi-promising LCS.</p><p><br /></p><p>I really like the monster toners, but that&#039;s probably fake toning, and they&#039;re quite pricey.&nbsp; There&#039;s also no guarantee that it would stay like that.&nbsp; Per ancients, that stage is somewhat temporary, although a Magnus Maximus in a flip from the 1990&#039;s is still the same.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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