List of reliable dealers? List of scalawags?

Folks,

In all the recent discussions it has been suggested that there are three
ways to acquire non-counterfeit, unwhizzed, uncleaned, well-graded
coins:

(1) Become an expert
(2) Buy only slabbed pieces
(3) Buy from reputable dealers

(Yes yes, I know that not all slabbed coins are graded well etc. etc.
etc., but let's leave that discussion for other threads.)

I'm perfectly willing to follow suggestion (1). This will take some
time, and I'm willing to acquire the knowledge - that's 80% of the fun
for me.

And I'm REALLY adept at doing (2), but my funds are now far more limited
than they were ten years ago when I got all the MS65 slabbed Morgans
that I'm now selling. Besides, I want to display my new coins in Dansco
(or some other high quality) albums; seems silly to pay the slab premium
just to crack them out.

So that leaves me with (3) if I want to buy any coins within the next
year or two. But who are the reliable dealers? Of course, there are
scalawag dealers on RCC, and some reliable dealers are not denizens of
RCC.

SOOOOOOOO - I'm asking two things:
(A) Who are the reliable dealers with an Internet presence, both RCC
members and not RCC members? Given that this is a positive question,
responses can be posted here out in the open.

(B) Who are the Bad Guys to be avoided? I'm perfectly happy to have
these responses e-mailed to me privately, and I promise to respect the
privacy of the sender.

Thanks in advance for your help,

Scot Kamins
--
RCC's Resident Newbie

Scot Kamins wrote:

Folks,

In all the recent discussions it has been suggested that there are three
ways to acquire non-counterfeit, unwhizzed, uncleaned, well-graded
coins:

(1) Become an expert
(2) Buy only slabbed pieces
(3) Buy from reputable dealers

(Yes yes, I know that not all slabbed coins are graded well etc. etc.
etc., but let's leave that discussion for other threads.)

I'm perfectly willing to follow suggestion (1). This will take some
time, and I'm willing to acquire the knowledge - that's 80% of the fun
for me.

And I'm REALLY adept at doing (2), but my funds are now far more limited
than they were ten years ago when I got all the MS65 slabbed Morgans
that I'm now selling. Besides, I want to display my new coins in Dansco
(or some other high quality) albums; seems silly to pay the slab premium
just to crack them out.

So that leaves me with (3) if I want to buy any coins within the next
year or two. But who are the reliable dealers? Of course, there are
scalawag dealers on RCC, and some reliable dealers are not denizens of
RCC.

SOOOOOOOO - I'm asking two things:
(A) Who are the reliable dealers with an Internet presence, both RCC
members and not RCC members? Given that this is a positive question,
responses can be posted here out in the open.

Chuck D'Ambra
Ken Barr
Dondi
Tom LRC

have all given me perfect satisfaction, every time.

Ira Stein goes without saying.

Alan
'stays with a few'


(B) Who are the Bad Guys to be avoided? I'm perfectly happy to have
these responses e-mailed to me privately, and I promise to respect the
privacy of the sender.

Thanks in advance for your help,

Scot Kamins
--
RCC's Resident Newbie

Google up Wheelers list by copying and pasting the following in the search line.

**** Web Sites of Interest (Part # 2) ****


On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 06:23:06 GMT, Alan & Erin Williams
wrote:

Scot Kamins wrote:

Folks,

In all the recent discussions it has been suggested that there are three
ways to acquire non-counterfeit, unwhizzed, uncleaned, well-graded
coins:

(1) Become an expert
(2) Buy only slabbed pieces
(3) Buy from reputable dealers

(Yes yes, I know that not all slabbed coins are graded well etc. etc.
etc., but let's leave that discussion for other threads.)

I'm perfectly willing to follow suggestion (1). This will take some
time, and I'm willing to acquire the knowledge - that's 80% of the fun
for me.

And I'm REALLY adept at doing (2), but my funds are now far more limited
than they were ten years ago when I got all the MS65 slabbed Morgans
that I'm now selling. Besides, I want to display my new coins in Dansco
(or some other high quality) albums; seems silly to pay the slab premium
just to crack them out.

So that leaves me with (3) if I want to buy any coins within the next
year or two. But who are the reliable dealers? Of course, there are
scalawag dealers on RCC, and some reliable dealers are not denizens of
RCC.

SOOOOOOOO - I'm asking two things:
(A) Who are the reliable dealers with an Internet presence, both RCC
members and not RCC members? Given that this is a positive question,
responses can be posted here out in the open.

Chuck D'Ambra
Ken Barr
Dondi
Tom LRC

have all given me perfect satisfaction, every time.

Ira Stein goes without saying.

Alan
'stays with a few'


(B) Who are the Bad Guys to be avoided? I'm perfectly happy to have
these responses e-mailed to me privately, and I promise to respect the
privacy of the sender.

Thanks in advance for your help,

Scot Kamins
--
RCC's Resident Newbie

Don

If you ask enough people for advice, you're bound to find someone
to advise you to do what you wanted to do anyway.

In article ,
Donald F. Boudreau wrote:

Google up Wheelers list by copying and pasting the following in the search
line.

**** Web Sites of Interest (Part # 2) ****

Donald,

Forgive me for being dense here. I followed your suggestion and got a
list of discussion areas from coin-forum.com. What am I missing?

Thanks,

Scot Kamins
--
RCC's Resident Newbie

"Scot Kamins" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Donald F. Boudreau wrote:

Google up Wheelers list by copying and pasting the following in the
search
line.

**** Web Sites of Interest (Part # 2) ****

Donald,

Forgive me for being dense here. I followed your suggestion and got a
list of discussion areas from coin-forum.com. What am I missing?


He was speaking of Google Groups (a different part of the Google search
engine):

http://www.google.com/grphp

or, for an advanced search:

http://www.google.com/advanced_group_search?hl=en

It is an archive of Usenet and is searchable. All posts are in there except
where the author has told them not to be (not very many people tell them not
to be).

Searching the newsgroup rec.collecting.coins in the advanced search can
yield tons of useful info that has been posted over the years (and a bit of
other less useful 'stuff' too. as you can imagine )

it is a very good resource but takes some digging into.

--
Stujoe
Email: http://tinyurl.com/wu00
Grading Challenge,Daily Coin News, Virtual Coin Museum and mo
http://www.CoinPeople.com

See below for a copy of the original post. There were other post with all kinds
of editing and additions which can be found thru Google,which I did not do as I
had this copy on my HD. Hope this helps.




Sat, 14 Feb 2004 11:26:46 -0800, Scot Kamins wrote:

In article ,
Donald F. Boudreau wrote:

Google up Wheelers list by copying and pasting the following in the search
line.

**** Web Sites of Interest (Part # 2) ****

Donald,

Forgive me for being dense here. I followed your suggestion and got a
list of discussion areas from coin-forum.com. What am I missing?

Thanks,

Scot Kamins

From Wheeler's post

COINS FOR SALE
http://www.brent-krueger.com
http://www.brooklyngallery.com/shopping/shopping.htm
http://www.cheapslabs.com/
http://www.elsen.be
http://www.frankcoins.com
http://www.harlanjberk.com
http://www.kelleyscoins.com/main.htm
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jcarne...ns/rccers.html
http://www.nactcoin.com/catalog/index.php
http://www.silvertowne.com
http://www.telesphere.com/ts/coins/
http://www.Teletrade.com/coins/home.asp
http://www.treas.gov/education/
Toned Morgan Dollars for Sale:
http://www.k6az.com/inventory/morgan_sales.htm

Coin Supplies
http://www.brent-kreuger.com
http://www.brooklyngallery.com/shopping/shopping.htm
http://www.cafeshops.com/babyback
http://www.capitalcollectorsplastics.com/
http://www.capitalplastics.com/
http://www.hobbysupplies.com
http://www.jakesmp.com
http://www.kelgory.com/kointains.html
http://www.kelleyscoins.com/main.htm
http://www.numismatic.biz/supplies.htm
http://www.texascoinstuff.com/

CONVERTING MONEY IN REAL TIME
http://www.xe.com/

A good place to get a price on coins
http://www.collect.com/interest/periodical.asp?Pub=NN
http://www.greysheet.com/
http://www.heritagecoin.com --- You need an account, but
it's free.
http://www.numismedia.com --- Online guide fair market
value
http://www.pcgs.com --- calls their's average retail

Information on USA Coins
Bogos: Counterfeit Coins:
http://www.rg.cointalk.org/bogos
Bust coins
http://www.byronreed.com/BCTC/shop.htm
http://www.byronreed.com/BCTC/link.htm
http://www.hlrc.com/inv/catlist.cgi?s_CATAGORY=Bust
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/reidgold/draped_busts
Coin Collecting: Consumer Guide:
http://www.rg.cointalk.org/guide
Coin Production Figures for the U.S.A.
http://tinyurl.com/5xzw
Error Coins
http://conecaonline.org/index.html
Gold Coins Specialist
http://www.coinvault.com
Grading Morgan dollars
http://www.coincentric.com/GradingMo...verDollars.htm
http://www.ngccoin.co
Info of almost all 'D' gold
http://www.dahlonegagold.com/dghome....ry/jacklee.htm
Rare Coins
http://www.jjteaparty.com/
http://www2.wcoil.com/~lbrc/lbrcmain.html
U.S. Major Mint Errors
http://mikebyers.com
http://minterrornews.com
VAM help
http://www.robjoyce.com/vams/
http://www.vamlink.com
Internet Radio about coins
http://www.wsradio.com
Television on the internet about coins
http://www.CoinTelevision.com
( A vision of what's to come for the ANA. The channel
broadcasts Numismatic Theater Presentations, candidate's
platforms and other programs of interest to collectors.
It's not the clearest, but at the moment it's the best we
have. This is thanks to Answerman2 )

Tokens
http://users.pullman.com/fjstevens/tokens/index.html
http://home.att.net/~cwts/cwts.htm
http://www.nycsubway.org/tech/tokens/
http://www.byronreed.com/byrons_coll...adertokens.htm
http://www.byronreed.com/byrons_coll...en/inneher.htm
Token and Medal Society (TAMS)
http://www.money.org/clubs/tams/index.html
Conder Tokens
http://www.unsogno.net/conders/

Some good idle reading:
http://www.kenbarr.com/
http://www.pcgs.com/
http://www.pcgs.com/articles/
http://www.coinsite.com/CoinSite-PF/default.htm
http://koinpro.tripod.com/educationalimagegallery.htm
http://www.moneymuseum.com (main site, English/German)
http://www.rg.cointalk.org/guide/
http://www.harrybassfoundation.org/sitemap.asp
Bust Coin Trading Circle Articles
http://www.byronreed.com/BustCoinFor...es/default.htm
Does olive oil really help with corroded coins? By
Robert Shaw
http://www.mindspring.com/~robe294/o...xperiment.html
Special Thanks to Alison K for these:
http://www.coin-newbies.com/
http://www.coin-newbies.com/FAQ/faqclean.html
http://www.coin-newbies.com/articles/cleaned.html
Standard International Coin Grading Terminology
http://www.australianstamp.com/Coin-...ry/grading.htm
Metal Detector Finds and post your own. ( A Nice Site )
http://www.ukdetecting.com/cgi-bin/getallsubjects2.pl

Coin Discussion Group
http://www.cointalk.org
http://www.byronreed.com/BustCoinForum/index.html
http://www.numisaddict.com/
German
http://www.muenzen.net/
http://www.emuenzen.de/
http://www.muenzforum.com/
French
http://www.numisforum.fr.st/

Coin Market Slang
http://www.limunltd.com/numismatica/...oin-slang.html

Where to post your pictures at
alt.binaries.pictures.numismatic

HISTORY OF THE EMBER
Ken, Buzz and Deven finished this project
(I think I am missing someones name here, If you know who
it is please email me)
in html text format
http://home.attbi.com/~davidhope5/Hi...mber_final.doc
in text format at
http://home.attbi.com/~davidhope5/Hi...mber_final.txt
http://www.ciampelli.com/rcc/

Don

If you ask enough people for advice, you're bound to find someone
to advise you to do what you wanted to do anyway.

In article ,
"Stujoe" wrote:


He was speaking of Google Groups (a different part of the Google search
engine):

http://www.google.com/grphp

or, for an advanced search:

http://www.google.com/advanced_group_search?hl=en


Ah. Thanks for the clarification! That does indeed work.

Scot Kamins
--
RCC's Resident Newbie

In article ,
Donald F. Boudreau wrote:

See below for a copy of the original post. There were other post with all
kinds
of editing and additions which can be found thru Google,which I did not do as
I
had this copy on my HD. Hope this helps.

Don,

This is great! Is the list of coin dealers a random collection or is it
a list of "treid and true" good guys?

Scot Kamins
--
RCC's Resident Newbie