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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2843482, member: 19463&quot;]The best place to get them is face to face with other collectors who live near you or from small time dealers like our own John Anthony at the show he posted doing yesterday.&nbsp; One reason for this is the cost of postage.&nbsp; Many sellers (rightly!) expect to be compensated for their packaging and travel to the post office and postage is not cheap in itself.&nbsp; One way to avoid this is to buy small lots of coins together since you can put several late Roman tiny coins in an envelope together and not increase the postage over the cost of one.&nbsp; I recently sent John Anthony 74 coins on consignment.&nbsp; The nice ones sold without trouble.&nbsp; After lesser ones failed to sell on their own we tried grouping them together and, I am told, people complained they did not want all the coins in the lot so they did not bid.&nbsp; We ended up giving some of the untouchables to YN&#039;s and one got repatriated into my collection where it will remain now.&nbsp; One reason I like coin shows is that there are sometimes small dealers or even collectors buying tables whose main interest is moving along things they simply do not want.&nbsp; Dealers, large and small, generally have a minimum charge for handling the sale of a coin on consignment.&nbsp; If that number is $5, it might allow selling coins worth $10 but not so much those worth $5.&nbsp; $50 is a more common number for medium dealers and I know several dealers who simply do not bother with coins under $200 or more.&nbsp; When we consider they pay $200 to $2000 for tables at a show but 95% of the people attending only collect US, it is not hard to understand why so few have $2 junk boxes.&nbsp; Coin clubs with other people interested in ancients or coins shows are the best answer if and only if there are other bottom feeders in attendance. </p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone know a dealer that welcomes business from new collectors who want to buy low end, unidentified but identifiable, cleaned coins grabbed at random from a larger group that really are not worth writing up, not worth being photographed, offered with minimal service and without return privileges?&nbsp; &quot;Here is my $100, send me ten/twenty coins I might like.&quot;&nbsp; Would anyone buy them?&nbsp; Years ago dealers often sent out approvals.&nbsp; Thirty years ago a dealer sent me 194 denarii on approval after calling my home and talking to my teen daughter who thought they meant coins made in 194 AD (my specialty from the Emesa mint). They were dates all over the place.&nbsp;&nbsp; I bought two but the return postage today would cost as much as the coins.&nbsp; It was close then.&nbsp; Does anyone still do this sort of thing?&nbsp; I doubt it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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