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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1631046, member: 26302&quot;]I understand Doug. I was talking more physical coins rather than date/mm or type. I know all of my US material is in a SDB, has been for more than a decade, and will be for hopefully a few more decades at least. No, I never look at it, and no, its not for sale. That is how most coins are, squirrelled away by someone, but not for sale. The amount of physical coins that are nice, problem free, collectible coins, (especially early 19th century material), that is actively for sale at any point in time is quite low as a percentage. I was just trying to relay that to Tim, that it takes work to find a nice coin at a fair price. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have said many times what collectors really should be looking to buy is what is NOT in dealer cases usually, nice, problem free collectible coins. The dealers do the best they can keeping such coins in stock, but as soon as they have such a coin someone buys it. That shows you the demand and desirability. &quot;Problem&quot; coins are not as common as walking a bourse floor would have you believe. You see so many of them because the coins you REALLY wanted are already sold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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