Where Do You Get Your Coins?

You guys are making me jealous now, as someone who has no local coin shop and only ~5 shows per year I can go to. You people who can go to one once a week astound me.

1) Circulation or bank rolls. I don't as much anymore, but from 2008-2011 I was working as a cashier through college (Paid in full by the Georgia lotto!) and living at home. Didn't have a girlfriend for most of that time to drain the finances, so I always withdrew some of the paycheck as cash to buy rolls or from my till. Ended up accumulating something like 150 pounds of "keepers".

2. ebay. Way more ebay than I will readily fess up to.

3. Other auction sites and Vcoins - I won't spend more than $200 on a coin from ebay unless they are one of just a few sellers I would trust to that extent.

4. Gifts from family. During my childhood, I was given:
- My mom's little coin collection, mostly bicentennial quarters, LWCs, and foreign pocket change
- My grandfather's collection, mostly assembled from junk bin finds when he was a teen in the 40s, or picked up as souvenirs after he served in Korea.
- Some of my great grandfather's LWC hoard - he was a police officer, and as he got older he moved to parking meter duty, and would swap out all the LWCs he found.
- Other miscellaneous souvenirs; my grandparents and aunts/uncles would always bring back about $10 worth of foreign pocket change from every vacation to distribute to me and my cousins.

5. In 2013 I helped liquidate a massive collection/accumulation of mostly silver dollars, dimes, and halves. Total came to about $8,000 and I was very generously offered a 10% commission, which I opted to take first dibs on the coins. Those were my first Morgans, 2 cent, 3 cent, Barber, and SLQ acquisitions.

Circulation, RCM then if we get to go to a big town a LCS but that's about once a year. We have NO Coin Shows and one Second hand shop that is very high in price. Most when I buy come from CCF members.

I have only started really looking at my change this year.
and word has been getting around. A few friends have brought to me odd coins they have floating around their homes.
And I will give face value for dollar pieces and 1/2 dollar pieces.

Just something to talk about.
I'm up to 5 books now
1-1965 to 1998 still need 1968
1- the 50 states 1999 to 2008 with 2009 territories
1- American The Beautiful 2010 to 2021
1-Star Note and a couple silver certificates and some 2 dollar bills

LCS. ebay and the store down the street.

Some of the shops I've bought from over the years are defunct now. These days, there are just a couple of coin shops I patronize (in a city over 50 miles down the interstate) that are nationally known and deal in some very high end merchandise. That may be why the "chaff" they relegate to their "bargain" bins can be much better that anything you'd reasonably expect to find there. They seemingly just can't be bothered with the lesser stuff. So I keep dipping into that well. There are also coin shows in that same metropolitan area (local club events) that I can attend two or three times a year, and I usually find items there to spend my money on. Finally, there's a "local" jewelry shop (only about 20 miles away in the nearest town) from which I occasionally can get world silver coinage for or at just above melt.

I haven't bothered with ebay for several years. I buy ancients from some Vcoins vendors I've found trustworthy.

I did go to a country auction that was exclusively coins a few years back and did alright, but they've never had a second such event. Once in a while, I find things at yard sales, but usually only because I ask about any coins they might have. Swap meets and flea markets are pretty pathetic affairs in my region, although on rare occasions I've found some decent material at that sort of venue.

In descending order from highest to lowest.

1. Local Coin Shops
2. Coin Shows
3. Estate Auctions
4. Cash For Gold/Pawn Shop
5. Flea Markets/Antique Stores

Ebay, on-line coin stores, LCS, annual coin show and gifts from family. Recently CCF members.