Poll: During '14 which source captured the largest part of your wallet?

53BKid

This is a redo of a poll I did a number of years ago....Wondering which source got the highest percentage of your coin $$$ this year. I'd welcome your comments!

TorinoCobra71

Mainly Users here via the BST and Ebay........

TC71

53BKid

TC71: Thanks

mommam17

It was a Heritage year. Columbian,Roanoke,Alabama,Norfolk,Isabella,Gettysburg, and Texas. All bought from their Signature auctions.

53BKid

I was a net seller this year, but the mint wound up with more purchases than other sources.

ricko

This forum, the BST and some shows.... and the proof ASE/AGE from the mint. Cheers, RickO

RichieURich

My wife.

OPA

2..US MINT
3. TELETRADE
1. EBAY

joeyuk

I have spent some with internet dealers
Also some on E-Bay.
But by far I spent more at coinfest. The first show I had been to in a few years.
My 10 year old and I had a fantistic time.

JZrarities

For Me: probably even split between Internet Dealers and the Auction Houses.

Goldbully

Stack's
US Mint
eBay

percyb

Internet purchases direct from dealers for me and my local dealer.

tychojoe

about equal parts BST, US Mint, dealers online, and mom-and-pop B&M's. The hunt has been fun!

53BKid

With 56 repsonses, 45% on internet/eBay sales. Same percentage as last year.

greymars

My last purchase was from the BST Forum, courtesy of cartwheel. A wonderful Morgan purchase, and a Board Member that I will make future purchases with again during 2008

NumisOxide

Ebay.

Swampboy

#1 BST

#2 Mint

#3 Ebay

#4 Shows

Bear

Mrs Bear

Next medal specialists

I have assembled over 400 medals,

one hundred of which, have HK numbers. These

all had to meet three criteria:

1. Scarce to rare

2. Beautiful design

3. The highest or next to
highest available grade

A great number are sterling or silver plate
14 St Louis Expo 1904 medals from 299 thru 304. MS-65 to MS-66
many examples of the 50 dollar gold piece type medals.

MidLifeCrisis

A specialist dealer.

lkenefic

My last purchase put me over the top at my local B&M shop... otherwise, it was mainly Internet purchases and the BST forum here.

Leo

Konahead

most of my funds went to high grade CC dollars and GSA holders. Few dealer that specialize in this area. They did well this year!

coinnut

About 95% of my yearly purchases come from my local B&M and friend/dealer who attends nearly all major coin shows. E-bay probably accounts for the other 5%.

prooflike

Internet, Legend to be specific.

bigmarty58

1. US Mint
2. E-bay
3. DLRC

Robert.

Griv

The Mint, eBay, Teletrade and some really great dealers and individuals. Can't wait till 08 as there seems to be a little cash left in my kids's college funds. Besides, they can read, what else do they need?

Aegis3

Specialist dealers, while at national shows. Not sure which option to pick.

vplite

100% coin shows, from less than a dozen different dealers.

Mostly modern bullion, 90% gold.

Got a lot of common AU-BU silver dollars at a little over melt.

CarlWohlforth

There is some overlap in the answers you know... I purchased from the Internet, but I access the B/S/T and communcate with other collectors over the Internet. Many specialist and national dealers who go to shows also have web sites. So I voted Internet.

53BKid

Yes, there is overlap. Though I wanted to offer enough ideas that people would feel comfortable voting in one catagory or another, without their feeling I neglected something.

53BKid

sumnom

With the exception of the 2007 mint set, all my coin purchases were with a local dealer.

LindeDad

U S Mint
Heritage
eBay

And I contacted all via the internet.

DJCoinz

eBay,
BST.

53BKid

These initial results have very few differences compared with a similar poll I did last year at this time...

Poll: During '06 which source caputred the largest part of your wallet?


Noteable differences are that the mint as a primary source went down considerably, from 24.44%in 2006 to 10.56%in '07.
I imagine that this result has more to do with the broad popularity of the 20th anniversary sets than anything else.

I also included a couple other categories which reduced the 'Other' option from 11% to 1.4%.

These percentage differences were made up with a category I included late last year--specialist dealers 14.08% and an increase in internet sales.

The rest of the categories essentially stayed the same, with large auction houses and local B & Ms gaining marginally.

53BKid

Thought this would be worthwhile to redo to see what changes have occurred in the passing years.

DeepCoin

My buying was equally spread among a number of the choices. eBay, small shows and large shows split it fairly evenly. That said, I had a slow year for acquisition as I currently own one too many houses. Hopefully, that will be changing soon and the coin money tap will be back on.

BillJones

I made a lot of headway on my gold dollar and Dahlonega Mint collections so the large auction companies got a lot of my money this year.

johnny9434

the coin shows caught a majority of the money this year. no worries about that either

ModCrewman

Not just my local coin dealer, but local coin dealers in general.

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lasvegasteddy

grading fees was in the running here

LindeDad

Still in that eBay group, but mainly from known dealers that use that site like me.

Hardly none at Heritage or the Mint anymore since they no longer make CBH's.

53BKid

bronco2078

<< <i>Still in that eBay group, but mainly from known dealers that use that site like me.

Hardly none at Heritage or the Mint anymore since they no longer make CBH's. >>




I heard a rumor the mint was going to release a gold CBH next year . It will probably the key to the series

Tibor

I spent 40%+ on reference materials and auction cats.
Here again not in my collecting area but excellent sources
of info.

A gold CBH? What is the release date and where is the show
for release; I need to make my plans!!! after that a gold
1943 steel cent would really look in my Dansco 70-70 .

scubafuel

Mostly 3 or 4 purchases from specialist dealers. Ebay has largely dried up for me, and Heritage is too risky after a few bad experiences with shaky photographs. Without being able to see coins in person first, a return privilege is key.

This seems obvious I'm sure, but I used to assume I could "grade from photos". I've changed that to "I can grade from some people's photos". They get my money these days. I hate returning things.

jcping

Heritage -/ got my wallet more than my wife can do it.
As every year, Uncle Sam took the most.

ricko

Internet exclusively.... (BST etc)...no coin shows or dealers in this area. Cheers, RickO

chiefbob

Ebay for my raw Barber Half collection...

CoinZip

This is still a cool thread.....


Its small local shows for me.... while you all were at FUN, I was drooling over this little beauty at a small show in New Market MD...

AMRC

Estate Collections.