What dealer is most responsible for the coins in your Registry set, and why?

TahoeDale

For my Barber Halves--U S Coins, because they are fair, smart and reasonable( and, btw, I lived in Houston for 35 years)

Liberty nickels- Split between U S Coins and Pinnacle--probably the most honest dealers in the country

Early and Bust halves--US Coins and Don Willis of Premium Numismatics. They have the eye for pq coins

Barber quarters- not one dealer, probably more at auction; MS Barber quarters are not carried to a great degree by any high-end dealer.

Early Dollars-- US Coins the first time around; some great individuals since-Don Willis, Rob Lehmann; they seem to know what I want in an AU 58 early dollar.

Help all of us learn the dealers you use and trust for your Registry sets.

PQpeace

Besides my own business...finding the coins on my own..

U.S. Coins...Love Bonnie..

Pinnacle...love Katy

Both great to work with..

Larry

Fairlaneman

1. Like collectors of the same series. (2 different Merc Sets in the last 5 years.)
2. Auctions and Ebay
3. A huge tie between David Lawrence, Whitlow, Heritage, JJ Teaparty and many others. No real alliance to any one dealer. The spice of life.

Ken

DennisH

When doing my Morgan set, it was Steve Estes and Art McBride... two of the classiest dealers I've ever had the priviledge to also call friends. They learned the "look" I like and called when they came across something they thought might work for me. They gave me lay-aways on big coins. They let me try crossovers. And they were (are) always supremely friendly and generous with their time, insight, opinion and expertise. Couldn't have done the set without them.

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mas3387
seth@coinfame
Walt Hutton

zkcoins

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seth@coinfame
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I would say these guys and also:

Pinevalleycoins
Teletrade
ebay


Zach

RegistryNut

I like to aquire my coins by auction. Probably because I can help set the final price. It's exciting knowing you may aquire a coin for practically nothing, pay what it's worth to you, pay too much, or drop out of the bidding when it reaches an unworthy price. How many coins do we all own that we would've paid much more to aquire but the auction went our way? That's auction excitement for me.

I like Heritage, DLRC, Teletrade, and Ebay auctions the best. I like sellers Pine Valley Coins, BowTie Coins, David Gaines, Haletj, and some others. These sellers are all professional and always conduct business in an A+ manner.

Of course, members favorites are going to vary depending on the series and denominations of the coins
they collect. Plus the quality of a set helps determine where you look for that next coin. Stewart or Close
To Perfect will not buy from the same sellers as a lower ranked set. Happy hunting.

RegistryNut

MadMonk

I specialize in Franklin Halves.
These were my top dealers:
Jack Ehrnantraut
John Wooten
Steve Leber

The rest of my collection was done the hard, but much more fun way. Busting up mint sets, and scouring the Bourse.

sonofagunk

For my lincolns I would have to blame David Gaines (LincolnCentMan on the boards) and Wayne Herndon (WH). Between them, they SOLD most of my lincolns for me and they are totally responsible for the Lack of coins in my sets!!!!! Thanks to both for the the hard work

RegistryNut

David Gaines (LincolnCentMan on the boards)


And what a great job he did. I aquired 5 of Son Of A Gunk's Memorials through David. I was very pleased.

RegistryNut

rb7557

I'm into statehood quarters, primarily, but I do have quite a few raw sets going also. There are 3 people that have helped me tremendously with my statehoods. And I wouldn't hesitate to buy more from these guys, or have any problems sending my freinds to them.

Michael Sulinski
Douglas Rall
Carl Winkler (pinevalley)

saintguru

I'd have to say that Heritage auctions were the #1 contributor. There have been so many great opportunities with old-holdered coins coming to market over the years, and I have made some of my best acquisitions through them. Maybe I got some key upgrades???

In a direct/indirect way Todd Imhoff has had a lot of impact on my set. Many coins that I bought through an intermediary were from him, expressly for my set. I didn't know Todd at the time. US coins had a few, but they were VERY important coins.

DrPete

Harry Laibstain, without a doubt. He is fair, knowledgeable and easy to deal with. A real class act.

RegistryCoin

There are many dealers who live and breathe coins, so much that their knowledge is amazing. However, there are but a few dealers who can hear of a coin, discuss its merits, readily quote pops, realize demand, and perceived values. There is just a small handful of quality dealers who have these abilities. I am happy to see that there are a number of respected sellers mentioned on this thread.

dwssws

There have been two Barry Stuppler and Laura (Legend) both of whom are great to deal with

dpoole

<< <i>There is just a small handful of quality dealers who have these abilities. >>



Andy Skrabalak's one of those at Angel Dee's. He was my main man when I put together my old Lincoln set.

BAJJERFAN

I would say that roughly half of my coins came from eBay/Heritage with the rest being from board member collectors and board member dealers; also Whitlow, Alpine, Tiso, other private sales and shows. In other words a whole gamut of sources.

RegistryCoin

There is much radically distinctive unequalled quality ability, intelligence, and respect in those previously mentioned.

GTS

Heritage,Todd Imhof at Pinnicle,Gary Adkins at NSI,Bob Green at Park ave.,Barry Stuppler,Legend all contributed to my set.I have to say the person who is most responsible for my coins is the SaintGuru, a fellow collector who taught me the most about the series we both collect including the dealers and the auction houses and the TPG's. He is a real student of the series,with a wealth of knowlege and a nice guy.
GTS

cape

larry whitlow and mike printz, they have an incredible eye for nice original buffalo nickels. also darin big dig5 has a great eye for quality .

cape

also bonnie at us coins has high quality coins along with dave at djw coins.

saintguru

Thanks George!

STEWARTBLAYNUMIS

Me,Myself and I ......

Lord Master Stewart

oreville

Most of your answers including that of Stew (me, myself and I) are invalid. The question was what dealer (not dealers) IS most responsible for the coin in your Registry set.

You need to try again!

Atlantic

For Me it has been Charmy Harker of CoinCents.com

Coin Cents,com

fcloud

My dimes were mixed up pretty well. I have coins from at least seven different dealers, five different message board members (the dime below was from Fairlaneman), and three different auction houses, plus ebay and yahoo.

RegistryNut

<< <i>Most of your answers including that of Stew (me, myself and I) are invalid. The question was what dealer (not dealers) IS most responsible for the coin in your Registry set.

You need to try again! >>




Sorry oreville! My most responsible dealer is Heritage Auction.

RegistryNut

BowTieCoins2

RegistyNut - Thanks!!

weresteve

<< <i>Help all of us learn the dealers you use and trust for your Registry sets. >>



There is no one single dealer that would cover everything for me tho' two have been very helpful ...

Midwest Rare Coins
Columbia, MO

Oakwood Coins
Chanute KS

Most of the big boys are just too darned expensive for my tastes ...

Steve

cartwheel

I don't buy many high-powered coins (read by me: over $500), so I've been lucky to have an old-time local dealer who grades very accurately, honestly and conservatively. His philosophy: don't grade a coin to the very BEST it can possibly be, but rather to the LEAST it can be. Probably 50-to-75% of the coins in my registry sets were purchased raw from him, and I've had many good upgrades of his coins (and very few downers; see my registry sets as proof. For example, 16 out of 20 of the Walkers in my Short Set were purchased raw from him, with no raw coin costing over $90). I've also purchased slabbed from some national dealers and PCGS forum members, but you're not asking about them! Unfortunately, my local dealer's supply of raw coins has been drying up the last couple of years, thanks to eBay.

Cartwheel

SUPERCARCOINS

Rick Tomaska has placed more coins in more registry sets then anyone , just ask him !!

MadMonk

<< <i>Rick Tomaska has placed more coins in more registry sets then anyone , just ask him !! >>



Come on now, can that really be true? How could one know?

SUPERCARCOINS

....he's pointed it out numerous times in his newsletters

MadMonk

<< <i>....he's pointed it out numerous times in his newsletters >>



Well I guess if he says it, it has to be true.