What Is The Best Time Of Year To Find Good Deals On Coins?

I'm not buying coins at this point (except the copper CCF token that I am looking forward to), but I would guess Holiday season is not the best.

On a side note, your signature seems to validate another I've seen (sorry I can't remember who) that basically says those who say "There's no such thing as a stupid question" are invariably the ones who keep asking them.

It's funny but not wholly true here. Keep asking.

I'm hardly an expert on these things, but I've been watching auctions the last few weeks, and it seems to me that the bidding slowed down quite a bit last week. I wondered if some people who would normally bid were, like me, tapped out after buying Christmas gifts and prepping for holiday stuff.

On the other hand, there's an absolutely stunning toned proof Jefferson nickel coming up this weekend that has a book value of $13--someone has already bid $350 (it wasn't me)! So the crazy bidders are still out there for the especially desirable coins.

This last week was stellar for ebay auctions. I always devote my October, November, and December purchasing for the 10 days before Christmas, and I never sell during that two weeks before Christmas.

Purchased some beautiful items for 10-25% less than the normal selling prices, which is pretty huge for the coins on my want list.

The next three days are also typically great for buying too.

Probably the best time would be January . A good month after the Christmas madness of everyone buying coins for presents ,sales die down for the dealers . So this IMHO is the best time of year to find good deals .

The Best deals can be had from noodling around the festive season as the many jars and piggybanks of coins are cashed in at this time of year.
Many Non collectors that find an interesting coin toss it into their change jars etc. instead of spending them But when funds run short as they always do at this time of year off to the Bank they go.

I think summertime. Coins are mostly an indoor activity and when the weather is nice, most want to be outside.

After over 60 years of coin collecting I've found that the best time to buy coins is on February 30th and 31st. Also, April 31, June 31, November 31.
I really don't think there is a better or worse time to buy anything.

Good deals can be found all year long, you just have to educate yourself in your area of interest and know when to jump on extremely under priced items that are not correctly described..

In the last month I was able to purchase two inverted overprint errors printed on Web-Press-Notes..

The 1st was for $225 and the second was listed under "Buy it Now" from a dealer for $349.00 (postage included)..

Most of my CCF post's are in the U.S. Currency Forum, and I've been tracking Overprint Errors printed on Natick Test Paper and Web-Press-Notes and posting in-depth Census results of confirmed errors along with the exact serial numbers awaiting confirmation..

The top note does have a tear on the lower right, and if you notice the definition of "Premium" in the Web Handbook, the quoted value is regardless of the notes condition (they are that rare)..