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James Sego

James Sego

Rare coin dealer and founder/president of JMS Coins in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; former President of the Professional Numismatists Guild (2024–2026).

Sep 24, 2026

16:28
How do you know what to buy? So where do you jump in? What do you have to think about?
16:34
We have some buying groups that we buy for some of the telemarketers and some of the big companies that we supply product to.
16:42
It's a best-guess kind of deal, but we've done so many of them over the last 20 years that you have some flavor of what you think the demand's going to be, you look at what the mintages are, and then what's the household limit in terms of the orders, right? And sometimes the mint will allow you to buy five or 10 of them, and the mintages are 30 or 40 or 50,000.
17:04
I mean, those typically aren't going to be good good items for us to buy and sell.
17:09
But if you get something that's under 10,000 minage, and it's a gold eagle or a silver eagle, you know, silver eagles, obviously, you're going to look at minages in the 60 to 100,000 range, that's still relatively low for silver eagles.
17:25
And you can buy just a handful from the mint.
17:27
I mean, the telemarketers can't get the supply that they need.
17:55
Probably see good quick appreciation on that.

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