It Seems To Me CRH Are Hated At Coin Shows

I understand the thrill and joy of finding that rare coin in a roll for face value, but as mentioned before, dealers are in the profession to make profit like all other types of job.

I would preferred customers that bring businesses, and CRHing could be a back burner if business is slow. It may pay for next month utility bill. LOL!

I've never run into that at the shows, nor from the guys at the club. They seem genuinely interested. Even when I bring up the fact that I'm a dirtfisherman.

There seems to be big confidence spruett001 said that.

How you got started. I started about 2 or 3 years ago.
Because I found a penny outside my car at the car wash.
Then I found a 1972 with a southern eastern mint mark.
That finished it I started collecting again.

I think it was an 1987 penny at the wash. (not worth anything)
It really was a rekindling because as a child I
loved Indian Head Pennies.

I go to shows to fill the gaps. Dealers have all the gaps.How many wheat pennies I've found in rolls? Not many but they're there.
My oldest find was a 1925 in rolls.

Actually I've found proofs when CRH. Are they worth less?
Not a silver junky. Because CRH know silver is a myth.
I never hunt for dimes or quarters it's just a waste of time.
Really I don't know about that but found a 1928 Buffalo nickel
a few weeks ago.(maybe it was a plant)

All this said CRH are the miners without them the dealers
would be useless.(trading the same coin back and forth)

But me I'm a sticker. I keep my collection and will not sell.
at least until it's full x 10. even then I would have to trade out.

so yes I see the dealers mind set. at least the good dealers.

70% maybe 90% of the dealers have fair prices.
Red Book and stuff.

PAN a good show but way high prices. Indiana small town
extremely good prices. Not sure what that means.

leave it with that I had 2 good coin shows even with s
at some point during each show.

Really most disappointing a biker jerk coin dealer cannot
tell the difference between a 79 type 1 and 2 vs 81. in his
mind it was all the same but It really was a 81 type 1.

actually a lot of dealers don't know and the few that do
are probably smart. This coming from a CRH.

Yeow.

Mycrookedd, yours is a common "restarting" story. Some event sparks or rekimdled the desire. Beginners usually, without knowledge of course, and most with limited funds, will begin a CRHing venture. Nothing wrong there at all, I did it that way too. But as I learned more, about error coins, and varieties, that as a kid in the 1950s beginning to collect with my father, I knew nothing of, became fascinated. CRHing provided the exact tool to learn and practice on. through learning, reading and study I became fairly adept at recognizing these errors/varieties.

Then,....I grew up. I matured some, found my interests shifting into the actual collection aspect of coinage. This was a shift away from the discovery of a particular error, to the discovery of a particular coin and its many varieties. Because of this, there was more learning to be had, and, more expenses were incurred. It had been easy to "hoard" all the nice coppers (even zincs back when)plus a bucket of nickels. Nothing was a financial strain at all, actually thought of it as an investment...ha-ha. But when branching out to olfer US coin series like the Buffalo nickel, and those Indian Heads you mentioned, you find very few CRHing, these must be purchased. Whether in bulk lots as a hit or miss, usually miss, or individual coin. It gets costly quickly...so what does one do when funds are limited? You can go back to CRHing,or figure ways to make the money needed by selling/swapping. There's where the different directions come in, being a "dealer" (large or small) or being a CRHer.

BTW, as I have stated previously, I still CRH, it's enjoyable, and keeps those skills tuned. Those same skills for recognizing spiked heads, BIEs, are used in determining VAMs and Die Pairs, and catalogued varieties of very expensive coins.

In day-to-day business at the store I work at, we have never, to my knowledge, bought an individual coin found by a CRHer, unless it was part of a larger silver lot that someone was cashing in.

If I walked in with an AU 1909 S VDB that I found CRH, do you think I could change that?

My LCS owner has known me for about 7 years now. Basically he was one of the first person in the Coin World I had ever talked to about anything. First it was just junk silver, then turned into bullion then into coins. Mainly pennies and nickels. He knew I CRH because I had talked to him about it and that's how I started learning. Filling holes, discovering varieties, mint marks, grading etc. He always treated me with respect and was always willing to try and answer my questions. Now, if he wouldn't had been so good to deal with, what are the chances that I may have continued collecting? I may have been turned off by the snobbish attitude or whatever. But it didn't go bad and we have a good chats about many different things now, I've put a few grand into his store over the years, given him free stock when I could and he's always given me great prices on what I'm looking for. He has had my loyalty ever since.

Lol actually funny story with that too. I usually can find whatever I need in his books or in his displayed that meet my grade requirements and affordability. But now I've been coming to the point that he just didnt have what I'm looking for now. So I've been a little bummed and drive out of town to another dealer to see what I can find. I had mentioned this to him and was telling him that I would have rather spent the money at his store but he just didn't have what I'm looking for. Well he turns around to me and says here.... opens the safe and pulls out a whole additional stock! What the heck! Holding out on me! I gave him some choice words joking around with him. He was like " you always seem to find what you need in the books!" Hahahahaha. I was in heaven. Lol. Sooooo, I dropped $400. Never thought of asking him before if he has anything else. Ugh. Lesson learned.

Anyways, moral of the store. BE NICE! It pays ;-)