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New Member
United States
23 Posts |
Poll Question
Vote below on the main way you have or currently add coins to your collection 
Edited by BJsCoins1
03/17/2024 8:28 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
19108 Posts |
I obtain mine legally in a variety of ways...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7273 Posts |
I get the majority of my coins from a local coin shop, followed by a few online coin stores, then ebay and US Mint. I try to avoid ebay due to the high cost of coins compared to locally and online coin shops. |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
6449 Posts |
eBay, but I don't really buy a large number of coins.
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Valued Member
United States
244 Posts |
Mostly Coin shops but sometimes I go to a online Auction.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
3634 Posts |
The majority of my purchases are made from online coin dealers. Several of these dealers I've had regular interactions with for over 10 years. However, the past few years my number of auction purchases has been steadily growing. I do buy some coins and currency at shows or at brick-and-mortar shops, but it's fairly minimal.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
73579 Posts |
Usually from the bank. I used to buy boxes of pennies from the bank. That's how I found most of the coins that I have posted on here.
Errers and Varietys.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
21786 Posts |
These days?
-public auction.
I always closely examine each coin in hand before placing a written single fixed priced bid for each lot.
Auctioneer proxy bids for me, I never attend the actual auction.
Pay cash in person if I am successful.
I also attend coin shows, but I also inspect each coin in hand first, before a cash purchase.
Same modus operandum for more than 50 years. I have no intention of changing, except in the past, I also visited my favorite coin shops.
Most of them closed and went on-line, so they lost my business.
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
375 Posts |
Usually from coin fairs. Occasionally from antique/coin shops. Also a friendly local antique dealer might keep something on one side for me in case I'm interested, which is nice.
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Moderator
Australia
16805 Posts |
I voted "coin shows" as that's where I spend most of my "coin money" these days, but in terms of sheer quantity of coins in the collection, I have a different source.
I am "the coin guy" on a mission charity committee of volunteers whose primary function is the selling of donated stamps. But if anyone donates coins along with the stamps (usually either from deceased estates or from folks downsizing their homes), it's my job to sell them to raise funds for the mission work. Which often means I usually end up buying a large proportion of them myself for my own collection if I don't already have them.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1759 Posts |
Online coin shop(s) ebaybank coin rolls wife's change purse Edited by Sharks
03/18/2024 12:29 pm
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Moderator
United States
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My primary sources are coin shows, ebay, and the US Mint.  Circulation? Not so much.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3755 Posts |
Well, I could only vote one, so I went online auctions. Lately, the vast majority are from online auctions/sales on a couple FB pages where I know the folks I buy from. BUT, I also get them at shows and from the mint. Infrequently from circulation, though a while ago that was a big source as well.
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New Member
United States
48 Posts |
Voted online coin shops. Also buy online auctions, live auctions and the US Mint.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2457 Posts |
primarily online coin shops/dealers.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
25562 Posts |
US Mint Online coin dealers ebay Buy It Now |
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Posted 03/17/2024 8:38 pm
