Question for the specialty dealers (gold, early gold, early copper, etc.)

Longacre

In certain of the gold, early gold, and early copper series there are pretty low populations. For the full-time dealers (or fanatical collectors), do you reach a point where you've "seen them all" in your area of expertise and can remember when and where you have seen the coin in the past? For example, for a gold coin with a population of 100 or so (assuming it trades somewhat regularly), when you see a coin in that population, can you say, "oh, that was the coin that I owned in 19XX and sold it at FUN to dealer XX", etc., etc. In other words, how familar do you become with the specific coins in your area of expertise?

mrearlygold

I owned 7 of the 1834 Capped Bust 2 1/2's, 4 at one time and sold 3 of em in one day to collectors ( both MS-61's were in that sale!). They did a story in Numis News on the front page about that one!

I could think of more than that but I really liked those deals.

I have a tendency to go after certain series as a mini packman though.

Tom