Coin Dealers: At what point in your life did you want to become a coin dealer?

SethChandler

Tell us how it happened!

silverpop

After the store that i worked in for 3 yrs closed down i told my wife who gave me the money to buy some coins after that i've sold on another coin site non stop never sold any here most of the coins i sell are low grade raw coins

relayer

<< <i>At what point in your life did you want to become a coin dealer? >>



The moment I realized I bought way too many coins

LincolnCentMan

I became a dealer to support my coin habbit. My buisness started on April 2nd of last year. Since then, I've spent less than $1000 of my personal money on coins.... and that was replaced. My personal collection has grown far more than it would have been had I been hoarding the stuff. If I werent putting back coins now, I would imagin that the value were grow even more.

David

Bear

NEVER,EVER, NO HOW.I have enough trouble

holding on to my sanity as it is.

sleeper

Started collecting when i was 6 years old, i was second oldest and on my 6th birthday my mom gave me a 1922 peace dollar that she got from her mom when she was 6, she was second oldest also. korney sounding ya but true. that how i got started.

I collected in grade school and some in highschool, still have my set of barber quarters(missing3) that i finished when i was 14.

6 years in college afterwhich i started collecting more heavily and started a vest pocket dealership to help fund my coin hobby, figured if i could buy and sell some coins i could get coins for my collection at dealer prices also.

5 years manageing a shift in a corn mill and seeing how the company i worked for treated people when they retired and what the retires health situation was after doing that kind of work for 40 years i decided to take my small coin operation and try to go full time, i didnt want to end up 65 with a broken body/spirit like everyone else there.

Went to work for a near by coin dealer for a year, followed by a national dealer for a year, followed by another local stamp/coin dealer for 2 years till i had the capital to go on my own.

Now 3 years later i have my own coin company with 1.5 employees.

Thats my story

Andrew Rebier
JadeRareCoin, president

kieferscoins

Neat stories guys! How do you have half an employee? Part time?

Cameron Kiefer

jbsteven

I will let you know if I ever decide to be a dealer.

sleeper

0.5 employees is part time.

PS if i ever had to go back to a full time regular day job i think i would throw myself off the sears tower. When you have the pleasure of doing something you truely enjoy doing it stops being "work". Enjoying your job is one of the true pleasures in life.

Andrew

coinlieutenant

JB!! LOL!!

Baley

maybe he should have asked, "at what point did you WANNA BE a dealer?"

Tonekiller

<< <i>maybe he should have asked, "at what point did you WANNA BE a dealer?" >>





LOL! Good one.