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<p>[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2260962, member: 1892"]At the risk of sounding like Captain Obvious, I think your best bet is to steel yourself to hit every table if possible. The places where you know you can find specific issues are also known to everybody else....</p><p><br /></p><p>For every Heritage at a show like Baltimore, there will be three or four second-tier dealers you may not have heard of, and each of them will have gems in the rough for the sharp-eyed shopper. Look for the stuff people are offering which isn't their specialty, and the coins/dealers which don't get exposure via big-traffic websites.</p><p><br /></p><p>That's my usual show habit, anyway. On a bourse that large, many times I don't even bother with the dealers who are on my regular online rotation anyway. I've already seen what they have.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2260962, member: 1892"]At the risk of sounding like Captain Obvious, I think your best bet is to steel yourself to hit every table if possible. The places where you know you can find specific issues are also known to everybody else.... For every Heritage at a show like Baltimore, there will be three or four second-tier dealers you may not have heard of, and each of them will have gems in the rough for the sharp-eyed shopper. Look for the stuff people are offering which isn't their specialty, and the coins/dealers which don't get exposure via big-traffic websites. That's my usual show habit, anyway. On a bourse that large, many times I don't even bother with the dealers who are on my regular online rotation anyway. I've already seen what they have.[/QUOTE]
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