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MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,683 ✭✭✭✭✭
Sometimes, cash is insufficient to extract coins from other collectors. Sometimes, you need to have things that they want.

Do you have any coins that you are holding hostage, expressly for the purpose of trading them to other collectors that have things that you need? I do.







Andy Lustig

Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.

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    LeeGLeeG Posts: 12,162


    << <i>Do you have any coins that you are holding hostage, expressly for the purpose of trading them to other collectors that have things that you need? I do. >>





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    MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,683 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Such As?

    It's all on the Darkside. But if I collected certain US coins - errors, die varieties, colonials and tokens come to mind - I'd probably do the same.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
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    mgoodm3mgoodm3 Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭
    I have slowly come to accept that some of my coins are expendable for trades or as partial payment for a more expensive coin. Now that I concentrate on copper, most of the other stuff is fair game.
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    ShamikaShamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭
    Basicly, everything I have is "Trading Material". It just depends on what you've got and whether or not I want it bad enough.

    Buyer and seller of vintage coin boards!
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    dizzyfoxxdizzyfoxx Posts: 9,823 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Basicly, everything I have is "Trading Material". It just depends on what you've got and whether or not I want it bad enough. >>



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    CoinHuskerCoinHusker Posts: 5,034 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Sometimes, cash is insufficient to extract coins from other collectors. Sometimes, you need to have things that they want.

    Do you have any coins that you are holding hostage, expressly for the purpose of trading them to other collectors that have things that you need? I do. >>




    Yep! As matter of fact that's what I'm doing with a 1986-2005 PCGS MS69 SAE set. No takers thus far (d@*n milk spots image ) but the idea of trading seems far simpler than selling what you have and then buying what you want. The problem arises in finding that one person who just happens to have what you want and vice a versa at a value you both agreee on.
    Collecting coins, medals and currency featuring "The Sower"
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    cladkingcladking Posts: 29,959 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've got a ton of it.

    Anything that's really difficult to find but usually pretty cheap is great for trading. It can
    be almost impossible to pry some coins out of collectors' hands unless you have something
    they want just as much.

    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.

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