I'm retired as a coin dealer and everything else so long as my funds hold out which I hope will the rest of my life.
I've had a couple of guys ask me to hunt for coins for them, but so far I've said "No" because I would not know what to do with the coins if they didn't like them and would not pay for them. I like setting up at shows and the interactions with collectors, but carting around the inventory and security issues are not fun; and niether are bad shows when you can't sell anything because the collectors a tapped out by the economy and earlier the bad storms we had here in Florida a few years ago. Unemployment in my area is now up to 12+%, and that makes things hard. People's house values have also gone down the tubes.
Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
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I've had a couple of guys ask me to hunt for coins for them, but so far I've said "No" because I would not know what to do with the coins if they didn't like them and would not pay for them. I like setting up at shows and the interactions with collectors, but carting around the inventory and security issues are not fun; and niether are bad shows when you can't sell anything because the collectors a tapped out by the economy and earlier the bad storms we had here in Florida a few years ago. Unemployment in my area is now up to 12+%, and that makes things hard. People's house values have also gone down the tubes.
If you don't do it when you get to it,
You'll never get to it to do it again.