Where Can I Buy Coins At Dealer Prices, To Resell?

I see your age is 16. It is great to have young people interested in coins.
I would like to attempt to answer this question.
I am 53 and the very same thought occurred to me a very long time ago.
Your first investment is somewhat free.
It is your time. I suggest you study a certain series or two that you can also afford to collect.
There is no real wholesale place I have found that I can actually make money on coins. Not really.
The bank is probably the best place to go first. Politely establish a friendly connection with a teller or two and try to exchange your money for rolls of coin. On occasion you will find coins worth more than face, the more you do this without getting the teller aggravated, the larger your collection or inventory will be.
There are no shortcuts, unless you inherit a collection to sell coins and make money.
I've been collecting well over half my life and have dealt in coins and antiques for quite a long time. I started small, when times were tough, I dealt small. There is time and education involved, then there is money to be made secondly. No real get rich or even richer quick ideas I have seen work.
For a lot of collectors, they start out as collectors and somehow, they ended up collecting so much they had to sell. That's what happened to me, then I found that as a dealer, I was not cured of collecting.
Seems I never quit. I sell and buy.
The other tip I have is to keep the best and sell the rest, sell it when it's hot and buy it when it's not and always buy something you like and can enjoy. You may need to enjoy it a long time.
Sometimes you need to sell at a loss just to use the money you get to Buy something that would do you better to have your money invested in.
If you find an honest way to get rich quick in this business, please consider letting me in on the secret.

Hello,actually I am 35 years old. I was told that discussing this is taboo in an open forum. I'm not talking millions of dollars,and I have alot of time on my hands,unlike most people so I thought I would do the leg work and the searching and make a little money.Plus enjoy looking at coins more frequently then I would just adding to my own collection.

Look up, I edited my earlier post.

( oops I guess you had 16 posts at the time, I thought it said you were 16. Sorry. )

It can happen, but it takes a lot of work and time. If you want to sell coins for a living, there is nothing wrong with that at all. Think about this though. If we older guys all knew an easy fast way to get rich on coins, we would be out on our yachts instead of having fun with other coin collectors in here.
Yeah we buy and sell, but this forum is more about the hobby and having some fun and helping each other learn.

Hey littlelouie, a lot of good advice here and seasoned vets sort to speak. One thing you might consider is this, learn to grade a series. The easiest way to make a buck is to know what you are looking at. If joe seller thinks his coin is MS61 and you know it is MS64 or65, you buy at or below MS61 and sell it at MS64 or 65. The trick is to know your series, this takes time but in the scenario you are describing you appear to have it.
Good luck and happy hunting.

Also Please Please consider this if you attempt this, you could make or break yourself quickly. In other words if what you thought was a MS65 is in actuality a cleaned coin that you bought at MS61, you are going to take a bath. It is a fast hard lesson.Do your homework first then, commit to your plan.

garage sales, estate sales, flea markets!

great places to coins on the cheap an then resale!

watch out for fakes

Thankyou all for your advice.All the kind words will stay with me for a long time!
Continue to enjoy this great hobby of ours and God Bless all of you.
I look forward to posting more topics in the future.

I would agree, learn to grade certain series, then others. Maybe start by buying small time stuff off ebay (under $50 a pop) just to get used to things and not get ripped off (you may get burned once or twice, but not to the extreme). I actually followed this advice when I started ebay, and sure enough didn't really get burned much. The good deals took awhile, for awhile I was getting decent deals but nothing that great. Also, bid conservatively. Don't rely on stuff like the Red Book too much. Numismedia is decent, but can be a little high on common dates, and a little to very low on scarce dates.

So, do that for awhile. Beware of subtle problems like cleaning or tooling, etc. Maybe spend $1000 or so doing this before you get into more serious ebay stuff. Make sure there is a return policy unless the price is ridiculously low. Beware of 'too good to be true offers' and really sensationalist sellers. There are some seriously good deals out there, but you will have to look (they're usually with smaller time sellers).

If you don't want to do that, you can start going to garage sales and estate sales. This is what I plan to do soon, actually, after some experience on ebay. I just say that ebay is the easiest 'training route' since you don't have to travel anywhere if you're careful; it can be a really darn tough one if you get burned for $500.

I don't know about garage sales, but with estate sales, if you want to buy in serious bulk, you should probably have a few thousand in capital. Maybe more. The more money you have, the more you can buy. Before you buy valuable stuff from there, learn to do it on ebay (being very very careful of course). Don't just buy real valuable coins without knowing what you're getting into, and avoid uncertified key dates that are often faked.

Lastly, for real rare coins, auction services like teletrade and heritage are the most accurate estimate. Not greysheet, numismedia, and especially not PCGS price guide (avoid this).