The Art Of The Deal

Not a great coin, but a decent coin. So I thank all for the votes of support.
StJoe, what is your concern?
I tend to favor the "one on one" dealing at a show more so than ebay. Sure, I have bought stuff on the bay.
After 13 years I am up to 33 purchases, and not all of them coins.

Marketing? That is what the "delete" key is for.

Ron was given a check a month ago to pay for another coin, so if he wrote it down he has my info.
I cannot begin to explain what constitutes a good dealer/collector relationship. It is born
out of a sense of mutual comfort.

The monthly show in New Haven is quite small,and I have been attending for over a year. I have chosen my
favorite dealers. It is not rocket science. "Warm Fuzzies" vs. "Cold Shoulder."
Along the way I have learned how dealers work with each other.
Not always a pretty sight.

I walk a very narrow line. Dealers like me as a collector. Just Sunday Brad said:
"Matthew gladly opens up his wallet if I have something he wants. If he doesn't buy today, he will be back again."

Now, how to evaluate Brad?
Well, the guy lent me his personal collection overnight to compare with mine. He trusted me.
What better indication of a great dealer?
(I bought three of his coins from that set to upgrade mine.)

Bottom line, how did I open up myself to google markeing?

Great looking quarter Matthew. I too have never seen this coin.
I try to deal as much as I can, but never seem to be getting what I would like. Local stores in my area are very limited, dealing more in bullion than quality coins. I would LOVE to go to a show somewhere but there never seems to be much around north Florida.
I also have a lot of rolls that were left to me that have been hard to part with because of WHO left them to me but I guess many have the same issue. I want to start getting rid of them now though but checking last week at our 3 stores, best offer was 14x face.
Matthew, what you wrote on the Barbers got me thinking, we have rolls of dimes, quarters and halves from this series. Most are AG to F and I thought they should go more than 14x face, but that's all I was offered. Would I get more at a show? Not selling on ebay that's about our only option.
I've learned (by reading on CCF) that my collections need to be focused more on quality than quantity which is the mistake I made when I was young and first got into the hobby.
I've thought about what if CCF created their own auctions, that would only occur perhaps 2 times monthly. I've seen the "pocket now" listings but with the amount of collectors here it would give those of us who don't sell on ebay the opportunity to buy and sell without the "Zoo" environment that ebay has become.
Just my thoughts....

There was no Columbian Exposition dollar coin. There were a lot of dollar sized medals made for or at the exposition tht are collected as "So-Called Dollars", but there were no official dollar coins made for the exposition. The first commemorative dollar coin was the undated Lafayette Dollar struck in 1899 to raise funds for the Lafayette Memorial in Paris that was to be dedicated in 1900. (The reason for the 1900 date on the coin.)

I stand corrected, Conder101.

It's funny how different coins attract people. For me, it's Mercury dimes and Liberty Walking halves. I have a couple of fairly common Barber halves (an AG-03 1902-O and a G-06 1912-S) that I got back in the 1990's as change in a Post Exchange at Ramstein Air Force Base (Germany). I never had an inclination toward the Barber halves or the Barber dimes, although I do appreciate the classic beauty of the designs...

Matthew, I am aware of the "smelter" which the LCS uses. I have thought about that before but I figured that they would go for more on ebay. I've bought but not sold on ebay as of now. I will contact them just to see what they would buy them at since I really can't get anywhere with the LCS. They have treated me well on what I have purchased, but it is on items that have been brought in and I buy immediately so he doesn't have to place in inventory. I have found out he sells on ebay although he was very cryptic on his username and would not tell me.
I love the Barber series and will begin working on those once others are more completed. I am willing to start selling some of the rolls he left me as we are keeping many other coins. I have not really gone through all of those which I will start on tonight, sure my wife will be happy with that..., she always is so ecstatic when I lay them out in the living room.
As to his collecting, I don't believe he was the type of collector who went for high grade coins, just what he took out of the machines he was working on. The bulk were Washington quarters, Roosevelt dimes and Jefferson nickels although there were coins from many different series and eras as well.
I read your post before which was truly fascinating and one that I've saved to show others. I would like to write on what he actually left me as his story is interesting since he was fairly famous running alcohol during prohibition. My LCS was a little surprised when I started bringing the old bank bags in prior to my learning more about coins, because of reading and learning on CCF. There were 8 bags that weighed around 40 lbs a piece. I only went through 2 bags with him as I started learning more. Honestly I was unsure about someone knowing EVERYTHING I had.
Some of the highlights were '32s, 32d Washington quarters and 1916d Mercury dimes. But of course none were MS grades and only a few are AU. He knew which coins to collect but for whatever reason never worked on trading or purchasing higher grades, which is how I started in collecting before understanding the true value was to obtain the highest grade that you can, coins that "speak" to you.
I was writing today on another post, he worked on Wurlitzer jukeboxes and Gottlieb pinball machines which is where the coins came from. Luckily he also saved all of his bank rolls of coins that were never opened, dimes, nickels and cents. I've always laughed at some of the absurdities on ebay about unsearched rolls, when I'm here looking at truly unsearched rolls that came from his bank.
What you wrote on your other post has inspired me to want to share what I know and what I remember on him which I will do soon. His collection he left was very vast and going through the bags have really been one of the highlights of my life. I feel like a kid at school as I've been going through them. If it is all right, I will email you on the Barber coins so I just don't tie up this post on that subject.
Your post previously is information on history that makes CCF so great for me, of course I love the coins but learning of all the history associated with them is a entirely new area.

Joe, I have had so much fun and truly enjoying building my sets. Going through all the coins, I find dates of my father, mother and many others birth years. There is not any manner of collecting that I can think of that could have this meaning, at least to me. You write about how it spans the generations and that is the exact point and another reason so many get completely immersed in it. I too feel like I wasted 20 or so years not building the sets because I was always "too busy" working on other things. I always think, "what could I have collected the past 20 years". Well, I'm at it now like we all are on here and to see what collections different members have put together make me that more determined to build the best sets I am capable and then hand them down to my next generation of collectors.
Keep enjoying it....