Ancient Coins Dealers In Western Europe (Former Yugoslavia)

Of course we´ll cross southern France, Switzerland, Southern Austria, Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia...
So we need Ancient coins dealers in those countries too...

Well.... let me say it for the record. In a world with access to ancient coins in so many venues why would anyone, indeed someone it would seem with limited knowledge of dealers, travel across Europe to the former Yugoslavia to attempt to buy coins from dealers. Not only would I reiterate the highly accurate and spot on fact that Echizento just brought up, but finding said legitimate dealer, what possible incredible deal would await you? I never met a coin dealer anywhere, even legitimate ones that did not attempt to secure the highest price possible, usually five to ten times what they paid for it, on any coin worth having.

By the way, some of you may be coin dealers, and might be offended by that last bit. I don't mean it as insult just old fashioned capitalism in action. My 95 year old grandfather has been a dealer for seventy years, as was my father. I spent my life around coin dealers here in L.A and everyone of them would concede that point.

I have been shooted in former Yugoslavia, I have been shooted by Somali pirats in front of Somalian coast...
...I´m not a hero, in my mind "no fear heroes" are equal to stupids.
A hero is someone that knows the fear, but he choose to do the right thing, what he must do.
My friend makes money travelling a lot, looking for coin lots from metal detectorist, other dealers, collectors etc...
but...
...he never takes any stupid risk.
But I´m very happy to receive pieces of advices from all you, and of course I´m not offended...

THANK YOU ALL

Well if you are looking for large lots of detector finds than you are going to the right place. Most if not all of the bag lots of uncleaned coins come from that region. There was a time when I would buy bags of 1000 uncleaned coins. Out of a 1000 coins I would be lucky to come up with 300 good collectible or sell able coins. Back than the lots were cheap and I didn't lose money, but now the price has shot way up so I don't see it worth buying lots of uncleaned coins.

Personally, .. I'd be wary. I know there's some controversy about buying ancient artefacts but you need to consider the risks that you will be buying fakes, supporting illegal activities or contributing to the loss of archaeological and historical information:

For instance, see here: http://paul-barford.blogspot.co.uk/...uy-that.html

You find a guy who has a few coins who introduces you to a guy who knows a guy and .. you find yourself in a garage full of boxes of coins and artefacts. Do you go whoopee and think of the money you could make selling them on ebay? Or do you pause and wonder exactly where all this stuff came from?

Metal detecting finds? OK. But how about if you discovered they were from a looted museum? Or stolen from someone's collection during the wars?

You're paying a guy for spending hours in the baking sun digging things out of a field? Or someone selling artefacts to fund arms dealing, drugs, gangs or worse ...

How will you know? You may be safe, but how will you know that what you do is helping, not harming others?

Just my point of view of course...

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TG, Perhaps you are right, but...
Are you really sure that the petrol/gas of your car don´t come from an ISIS source?
Are you absolutely sure that all your coins never were stolen from anyone?

You don´t buy "pirat" DVD´s...
...there is no doubt, you aren´t spanish!