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I have been trying to get that pan-pac medal in silver for some time but it gets quite pricey in higher MS grades. Lovely design.
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I am a 'vacuum cleaner' always looking for the best value for money across the whole of numismatics covering 2,600 years from when coins were first invented.
To be able to do this, decades of experience as a serious collector are needed, supported by an extensive numismatic library of over 100 books and scholarly numismatic references, covering the whole of numismatics.
My strategy at coin shows is to first limit myself to a budget (say, $500), and then survey the whole of the coin show, looking for best value for money. I then re visit those dealers where those bargains have been found, and negotiate within the $500 limit
Purchases could be anything from ancients medieval, milled or modern, from any coin issuing authority in the whole history of coinage.
Good value for money purchases are always easier to find, when one searches across the whole of numismatics.
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This one is brass but very nice for the price. US Pan-American Exposition 1901 Official Medal  Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Thank you, NumisEd.
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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That caballito is gorgeous! Very high on my want list,
but seldom available from the sources I frequent.
jbuck: Four of those 7070 holes are in the gold page.
At current spot, it looks like they are gonna be empty for awhile.
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This one is brass but very nice for the price. US Pan-American Exposition 1901 Official Medal Excellent! |
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I am a 'vacuum cleaner' always looking for the best value for money across the whole of numismatics
Good value for money purchases are always easier to find, when one searches across the whole of numismatics. sel_69l, that is also my strategy, but 19th and 20th century coins are my comfort zone. Most of my purchases are for my personal collection, but I'm always on the lookout for easy flips. Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Some of the $1 notgeld coins: Aachen (Rhine, Prussia) 1 Öcher Grosche (10 Pfennigs) 1920  Aachen (Rhine, Prussia) 25 Pfennigs 1920  Bonn-Siegkreis (Rhine, Prussia) 10 Pfennigs 1918  Bonn-Siegkreis (Rhine, Prussia) 10 Pfennigs 1919  Kaiserslautern (Bavaria) 10 Pfennigs 1918  Lüdenscheid (Westphalia, Prussia) 10 Pfennigs 1918  Thale am Harz (Saxony, Prussia) 10 Pfennigs 1921  Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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One dealer who had a massive case of slabbed gold also had some miscellaneous "stuff" at his table. One thing was a box of loose German notgeld coins (and many with that eagle holding a funny cross) for $1 each. Picked through the box and procured 50 of them. Spent $100 with another dealer on 20 coins - he specialized in bullion but had a 2X2 box with a bunch of nice coins. He just wanted to get rid of them so I helped out. This sounds like the kind of thing I tend to buy at coin fairs! To a lesser extent also coin shows; in my experience anything large enough to count as a "show" has enough interesting higher-end items that I end up making at least one big purchase, but there's often a bunch of smaller stuff too. I miss Moscow; it had a lot of coin fairs and the occasional show. Israel has almost none of either, and hardly even any coin stores. I've been told that Haifa has a fair each Saturday morning but good luck getting to Haifa on a Saturday morning without having to spend the night there first. (There is a bus arriving at 4 AM or so, and maybe some day I'll try that; it seems more convenient than having to find a place for the night.) |
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Some of the $1 notgeld coins: Nice examples! |
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I've been told that Haifa has a fair each Saturday morning but good luck getting to Haifa on a Saturday morning without having to spend the night there first... There is a bus arriving at 4 AM or so, and maybe some day I'll try that; it seems more convenient than having to find a place for the night. Sounds like an option. I am not sure what time you normally get up, but I have to assume you can sleep on the bus. Or take a nap. I have no idea how long a ride that is for you.  |
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I have no idea how long a ride that is for you. About an hour, so I'd need to leave at 3 or so (and then figure out how to spend the 5 or so hours before the fair opens). Normally there are trains, and more convenient buses for that matter, but Saturday is a religious holiday so public transit is extremely limited. |
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and then figure out how to spend the 5 or so hours before the fair opens Ah, so some extra planning will be required. I hope it eventually works out for you. |
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