Dealers - How Did You Become One?
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substantial part-time situations.
How did you end up in this job? Inheriting a family business?
Or starting out by yourself when young? Or working in some other
field for some years, and then switching to coin dealing? Or
working for another dealer, and then moving on independently?
Next time I see my local dealer, I'll ask him. I suspect that it
may be a family thing for him, since I think he's been in
business since 1960 or prior. Also, his brother has a shop in
another city.
Thanks...
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Voltronicus
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> This question is for coin dealers. Either full-time, or
> substantial part-time situations.
>
> How did you end up in this job?
Ability (and chutzpah) to describe AU58 coins as "just a whisper away"
from MS65 seems to be an asset.
note.boy
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Peter
> Insanity? :-) Billy I'm not one but I may be insane.
>
>
> > This question is for coin dealers. Either full-time, or
> > substantial part-time situations.
>
> > How did you end up in this job? Inheriting a family business?
> > Or starting out by yourself when young? Or working in some other
> > field for some years, and then switching to coin dealing? Or
> > working for another dealer, and then moving on independently?
>
> > Next time I see my local dealer, I'll ask him. I suspect that it
> > may be a family thing for him, since I think he's been in
> > business since 1960 or prior. Also, his brother has a shop in
> > another city.
>
> > Thanks...
>
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Same prerequisites as Psychiatry?
John Mazor
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> substantial part-time situations.
>
> How did you end up in this job? Inheriting a family business?
> Or starting out by yourself when young? Or working in some other
> field for some years, and then switching to coin dealing? Or
> working for another dealer, and then moving on independently?
>
> Next time I see my local dealer, I'll ask him. I suspect that it
> may be a family thing for him, since I think he's been in
> business since 1960 or prior. Also, his brother has a shop in
> another city.
>
> Thanks...
I'm not a dealer nor do I play one on TV or in newsgroups, but since
responses so far from actual dealers are a bit scarce here...
Unless there is a family business, I doubt that many of them were
urged by their parents to become a coin dealer when they grow up. My
brother, who is a small dealer in military collectibles, started while
doing military re-enactments. I translated an interest in photography
into doing weddings as a sideline for 25 years because the money was
good, working Saturdays fit my schedule nicely, and I was sick of
seeing my friends getting stuck with crappy wedding photography from
so-called professionals.
IMO the generic answer for many if not most owners of small specialty
shops is that they started with an interest in something (coins,
stamps, books, comics, trading cards, antiques) and then expanded that
into a business activity, partly to support themselves doing something
they like and are familiar with, and partly to support their hobby.
With respect to the latter, they're like drug users who start selling
on the side. ;-)
Roger Hunt
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churning out millions of doses per day in the mints dotted around the
country, and dealers even selling by mail order, not to mention those
like PCGS who test the doses for quality and genuineness.
And this co-ordinated and approved by the US Govt, and governments all
over the World! Shocking!
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Roger Hunt