Recommendation For George Dysinger In Tulsa, OK

Welcome - my only addition to what has been said is to photograph your collection prior to leaving it with anyone. That and continue to search for more information or 2nd opinions. Depending on what you have, you may find many buyers here.

Thanks all for the advice - lots of good suggestions in here.

We do know roughly what's in the collection - my wife has been through all of it. The problem is that there are probably somewhere between 1000 and 2000 coins in the collection - and that doesn't include the bulk rolls. Documenting the collection with photographs would take a very, very long time. My wife has said she'd get on this board (and the PCGS board) and post a rough outline of what we have - hopefully that will help. The only problem is that I can't see a way for us to describe the condition of all the coins.

Let me also clarify something a little. A lot of you are probably assuming that we're a couple of novices who are wanting to dump our collection onto the first dealer we hear about. That's not quite true. Well, we are novices, but the other part isn't true :-) We had someone we trust implicitly recommend someone, and that someone led us to this George fellow. I wanted to see if we could get in touch with people who have dealt with him in the past. If several people came in the thread and said "Yep, dealt with him, he's A-okay and will shoot you straight as an arrow" then we would probably drive over there next week and see what he has to say. However, if we can't find anyone who's dealt with him, then we will proceed with much more caution, and may forget about him alltogether. We just want to know if anyone knows the guy.

Whatever we do, please know that we will proceed with the utmost caution. This is a family collection, and we have a great deal of respect for it. Consequently we won't do anything stupid.

Don't forget what a "good, honest" dealer might pay you versus what you would get listing them on ebay might be a 50%-100% difference.

I'm not trying to , but if he works alone,I don't see how he could look at enough coins etc... by himself to make a good or fair profit, IF he is in fact looking at large collections, I'm assuming he may scan for key-dates first, keep us infomed

stream41,

I don't know George Dysinger or what you have in your collection, so I'll limit my comments to what I do know ... the business of buying and selling coins. When a "dealer" purchases your bulk collection it is done at the "wholesale" level. When you liquidate it yourself to other collectors it is at the "retail" level. The difference can be substantial. The effort to do this yourself can also be substantial and that is why many choose to have someone do it for them.

What I would recommend is providing a summary list of your holdings to the forum and let us inform you which are the "fast movers". Those coins that with a little effort can produce a large retail return. Our service is free and our level of expertise is substantial. You could then attempt to sell these yourself through many outlets (EBay, auction houses, etc).

Oh btw

The videotaping is a great idea - I will ask George about that. So far we've received two good references for him, so that's a good start. We'll keep exploring other options as well. My wife has talked to Heritage, but their requirements seem a bit strict. Someone also mentioned the Forum's classifieds - that's a great idea that I didn't even think about. We'll be out of town this weekend, but we'll try to post a rough outline of the collection early next week. There's just so much there!

I see Mr. Dysinger just opened a retail establishment in Tulsa the end of January this year. You might want to drift in and browse and see what the lay of the land is first.