How Many Coin Shops Are There In Your Area?

At least 8 in a 30 min. radius. That said, only 2 are worth frequenting. Several are very high end...nothing to see unless you are spending hundreds/thousands of $$$'s. Several are "junk dealers"....overpriced common stuff. Which leaves only a couple that are worth checking on a regular basis....

The best we have is a small cabinet with some on it and a big box of randoms for 50c each. I think the nearest coin ship is in one of or big cities about 3 hours from where I am.

I live in a rural area about 50 miles from both a medium sized city and a large metropolitan area. The former has a couple pawn shops that specialize in coins, and I've done alright at both. The latter has a half dozen coin shops, one of those tucked away in the corner of a jewelry retailer. I frequent two of them (one which occasionally advertises in Coin World and the other which is run by Rick Snow who many here know as a cent expert). In either case it's a significsnt drive for me, but I've got to go into one or the other city for shopping anyway, so I get my "fix" about weekly. There's also three coin shows a year in the bigger city, and there was even a coin auction recently near the smaller one.

There are none in my entire country (though here is one market dealer who only does a Friday market and ad hoc fairs)

This is probably a good thing at the end of the day...

There are no coin shops in the entire U.K.? Really?

I live in Northern Ireland. The UK is made up of four separate countries. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

We have 4 not including the pawn shops in our city of over 250,000. It's a competitive market here and most coins are picked over. Even the junk silver and foreign bins are picked over. That's why I search them out when I vacation. Even our Coinstars seem to be monitored by collectors.

There are a couple in my hometown. One retail location that is easy to get to and a couple "by appointment" places that I haven't hit and a couple more within a 30 minute drive.

Annoyingly, coin shops tend to be tucked away and finding a good one often feels like a scavenger hunt. I always seek them out when traveling and have found a few in Northern Michigan.

My local LCS is run by a guy that could be the brother of the Comic Book Store owner from The Simpsons. Nice enough but not warm; not a lot of "deals" but does sell enough ASE's to lower his premiums when not cought out.