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Commercial

• AAAAA Gold & Silver Coins
  <http://www.aaaaagold.com/~gold/>

  They want to be listed first, they got it. This place is nothing but advertising, aimed at wanna-be investors. The only things here that will interest collectors are the pictures.

• Alan Herbert
  <http://pages.prodigy.com/SD/answerman/>

  Plain and to the point. Alan Herbert, the numismatic answer man, mentions Krause publications and his new book.

• Albanese Rare Coins
  <http://web.coin-universe.com/albanese/>

  Slabbed U.S. coins for sale.

• Alexander Basok
  <http://bourse.com/AB/godunov.html>

  Sells Russian wire money. Includes good historical background.

• Aloha Hawaii
  <http://www.aloha.net/~alohabz/>

  Gold-plated Hawaiian rounds, illegally described as "coins".

• American Bullion & Coin
  <http://www.wid.com/coin/>

  Soviet and Russian commemoratives and medals.

• American Coin & Stamp Brokerage
  <http://www.wid.com/coin/>

  Large monthly auctions of coins, paper money, and other stuff.

• American Gold Coins
  <http://www.opennet.com/townesquare/coins/coins.htm>

  Slabbed gold coins. They use a "CU" grade, which is not a good sign.

• American Silver Vault
  <http://www.atlwin.com/silver/silver.htm>

  They make silver rounds, which they illegally describe as "coins".

• Ancient Treasure Coins
  <http://www.inter-nos.com/ancients/>

  Deals in ancient Greek and Roman coinage and seems to maintain a decent list of offerings.

• Atlantic Trading Company
  <http://idevelop.com/atc/>

  Auctions of antique paper, sometimes including paper money and coins. They do not grade the numismatic items. Caveat emptor.

• Baker Numismatics
  <http://www.dave-world.net/vendors/coins/>

  Looks like a reputable dealer. Some pictures and a weekly coin trivia quiz.

• Bowers and Merena Galleries
  <http://web.coin-universe.com/bowers/>

  One of the most well-known dealers. The entire inventory listed in The Coin Collector newsletter is online, but it is poorly formatted.

• BRM Coin Galleries
  <http://web.coin-universe.com/brm/>

  Just basic info, no offerings yet.

• Burtons Coins & Cards
  <http://www.wwcd.com/burton/burton.html>

  Hmmm, if you have a web page but do not have an email address, are you really on the Internet?

• Canadian Coin News
  <http://www.trajan.com/coin>

  Information about Canadian Coin News. Archives a few stories and pictures.

• Carlisle Development Corporation
  <http://web.coin-universe.com/carlisle/>

  Info on the Coin Collectors Assistant database program and the rather silly Grading Assistant CD, both for Windows.

• Certified Coin Estate
  <http://web.coin-universe.com/cce/>

  Makes albums and display trays for holding slabs.

• Certified Coin Exchange
  <http://atchou.com/cce.html>

  Nothing but some dealer references and a few price quotes that aren't updated very often.

• Chuck D'Ambra Coins
  <http://www.telesphere.com/ts/coins/>

  Lots of low-end U.S. coins for sale, pictures of various U.S. coins, and a coin collecting FAQ.

• Circle Island Company
  <http://www.lava.net/~cic/>

  Regular auctions, an inventory list, and a goofy virtual tour of Hawaii. Hard to read because they went overboard with bold and italic.

• The Cline Group
  <http://emporium.turnpike.net/M/mikec/index.htm>

  Not just auctions and new offerings, but also useful answers to questions, background information, stories, and trivia.

• Coin Dealer Newsletter
  <http://web.coin-universe.com/cdn/>

  Everything you wanted to know about the most widely-used dealer pricing guides. Also includes recent articles.

• The Coin Exchange
  <http://www.ibp.com/pit/coinex/>

  They apparently have a large catalog online, but it's difficult to get listings with their clunky search interface.

• CoinLink
  <http://www.cardlink.com/colink/>

  Don't bother. Their real business is in cards. They don't have anything for coins yet, and probably never will. (Unreachable during last survey.)

• Coin Universe
  <http://www.coin-universe.com/>

  Develops and hosts web pages for dealers and other organizations. Their database of coin dealers seems to have been constructed from old, old phone books. On the other hand, they do provide free classifieds, chat rooms, and pages for coin clubs. Their library section is derived from Numismatica.

• Colosseum Coin Exchange
  <http://www.ipgroup.com/cce/>

  Basically an ad for their mail-bid catalogs of ancient coins and artifacts.

• Cybercoins
  <http://www.nauticom.net/www/coins/>

  An innovative site with pictures of each coin for sale. The background makes the text a bit hard to read.

• Dargate Auction Galleries
  <http://www.ibp.com/pit/dargate/>

  Estate auctions, sometimes including coins.

• Davissons
  <http://web.coin-universe.com/classiccoins/>

  Under construction. Greek, Roman, and British coins.

• Eagle Eye Rare Coins
  <http://web.coin-universe.com/eagle_eye/>

  The market makers in high-end U.S. Flying Eagle and Indian Head cents. Online catalog, a few articles, and some pictures of unusual coins.

• Early American Numismatic Auctions
  <http://web.coin-universe.com/earlyamerican/>

  Mail-bid auctions for coins, currency, autographs, and Americana.

• ELA Auctions
  <http://www.virtualcities.com/~virtual/col/ela/0eladex.htm>

  Sells ancients, U.S. coins, commemoratives, gaming tokens, and stamps.

• Elliot Rosenberg's Coins
  <http://pages.prodigy.com/PA/ness/>

  Specializes in U.S. Morgan dollars, especially VAM varieties.

• The Estate of Abe Shames
  <http://www.ant.net/abeshames/>

  Mr. Shames is selling his estate, including his coin collection. Sounds a bit morbid, doesn't it?

• Family of Eagles
  <http://www.hiwaay.net/ONeLINERS/eagle/eagles.html>

  This sounds suspiciously similar to the American Eagle pyramid schemes that have been floating around.

• Glen Johnson's Coins
  <http://www.intac.com/~wb2mpk/>

  Holds frequent mini auctions.

• Golden Connections
  <http://www.bizcafe.com/business/goldenc.shtml>

  Mint sets, proof sets, silver rounds, and jewelry.

• The Gold Shop
  <http://main.street.net/gold/>

  They deal in slabbed coins. It's not a good sign when they hint at "very good investments" and say that modern dies are "cut".

• Gulfcoast Coin & Jewelry Brokers
  <http://gulfcoastcoin.com/coin/home.html>

  "We are totally computerized . . ." So, like, where's the online inventory, dude?

• Hamkins's Coin Auctions
  <http://tesla.csl.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/auction?display>

  Under construction. Will hold online coin auctions.

• Hard-Money Wealthbuilders
  <http://www.intergate.net/chtml/hmw.html>

  Sounds like another of those American Eagle pyramid schemes.

• Heritage Rare Coin Galleries
  <http://web.coin-universe.com/heritage/>

  One of the big numismatic auction houses. They offer a discount for Internet purchases and have a large online inventory.

• Incredible Collectibles
  <http://rivendell.com/antiques/stores/IC/>

  All kinds of collectibles, but very few coins or tokens.

• Island Federal Mint
  <http://web.coin-universe.com/island/>

  They don't actually mint anything--they're just dealers. Someone should tell them that The Numismatist is a publication, not an organization.

• J&M Coin, Stamp & Jewellery
  <http://www.jandm.com/>

  A large Canadian firm with a searchable inventory. Also offers commemoratives, jewellery, and art bars.

• JAC Cards and Collectibles
  <http://www2.pcix.com/~jac/>

  Phone cards, some coins, and bad spelling.

• Jacobson & Jardine
  <http://www.imall.com/imall/Companies/jj/jj.html>

  Official Super Bowl and Disney silver rounds, illegally described as "coins".

• JCV Investments
  <http://www.connect.net/jcv/jcv.html>

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• Kenneth Dorney
  <http://users.aol.com/kenne19108/artifacts.html>

  A small number of ancient coins and antiquities.

• Krause Publications
  <http://www.rivendell.com/antiques/pubs/krause/>

  The publishers of Numismatic News, Bank Note Reporter, World Coin News, Coins Magazine, Coin Prices, and a zillion other publications about collectibles.

• L&C Coins
  <http://web.coin-universe.com/l&c/>

  Just basic info; no offerings.

• Leveraged Gold Network
  <http://www.goldmarket.com/>
  <http://www.goldwww.com/>

  "Now is the time to invest in Gold." Now is the time to skip this web site.

• Liberty Coin Management
  <http://www.weblink.com/liberty/>

  "This Website has been put in limbo ... it will exit limbo within the next 5 days ... check back later to see what happens." That was on September 29, 1995.

• Malter Galleries
  <http://pages.prodigy.com/CA/landlord/rareart.html>

  Just basic info; no offerings.

• Martin Gray
  <http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~gray/>

  Selling a set of error currency. Interesting images, in more ways than one.

• Millennium Numismatic Corporation
  <http://www.cadvision.com/Home_Pages/accounts/guntramw1/Millennium.htm>

  A modest inventory of mostly Canadian coins and paper money.

• Miracle Mile Coin Center
  <http://www.masterm.com/mmcoin.html>

  According to them, you should buy coins because there will be a recall of U.S. paper money. Are people really dumb enough to fall for that? No online inventory.

• MJP Numismatics
  <http://web.idirect.com/~mjp/mjpnum.html>

  Sells some Canadian paper money, holders, and books. Also has a short FAQ for Canadian paper money.

• National Gold Exchange
  <http://www.packet.net/business/nge/>

  "National Gold Exchange is Currently Being Remodeled". That was on July 11, 1995.

• NationsBank
  <http://www.nationsbank.com/coins.htm>

  Pictures and specifications of Olympic commemoratives. Most collectors just say no.

• New World Emporium
  <http://www.webcoast.com/emporium/>

  They have some "pieces of eight". That's all.

• Ninga Software
  <http://www.freenet.calgary.ab.ca/trade/ninga.html>

  Info on the Hobbysoft Coin Keeper inventory program for DOS, Windows, and Macintosh computers.

• Northeast Numismatics
  <http://web.coin-universe.com/northeast/>

  Another site with only basic info and no offerings.

• NumiNet
  <http://www.escape.com/~trikx/auction.htm>

  Small online auctions, and a beautiful picture of an 1804 dollar.

• Numismatic Guaranty Corporation
  <http://web.coin-universe.com/ngc/>

  One of the major third-party grading services.

• Numismatists Online
  <http://www.numismatists.com/>
  <http://www.bonsai.com/qnu/hobby/index.html>

  Holds online auctions and fixed-price sales for several dealers. The first place to automatically update bids and inform you about new bids. It may be "run by and for coin collectors", but make no mistake--this is a commercial, for-profit venture.

• Oklahoma City Commemorative
  <http://www.oklabomb.com/>

  "The net proceeds of your purchase of each of these beautiful Oklahoma City Commemoratives will go to the Oklahoma City Survivors' Educational Fund."

• PandaAmerica
  <http://www.lainet.com/~pandausa/>

  Under construction. Bullion coins and Disney rounds, the latter illegally described as "coins".

• Peter Johnson
  <http://web.coin-universe.com/currency/>

  A decent selection of U.S. and Confederate paper money.

• Professional Coin Grading Service
  <http://web.coin-universe.com/pcgs/>

  Under construction.

• Quinlivan Collectables
  <http://www.ozemail.com.au/~quincol/>

  Specializes in items from Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, the Cook Islands, and other countries in the region.

• Ramapo Coin Exchange
  <http://web.coin-universe.com/ramapo/>

  Yet another site with only basic info and no offerings.

• Red Rock Design Studio
  <http://www.tagonline.com/Ads/RedRock/>

  Makes dinosaur silhouettes, slammers, and silver rounds. The latter are illegally described as "coins".

• Royal Hawiian Mint
  <http://www.pete.com/mint/>

  World War II commemorative "coins". Are they legal tender? No. . . . Then they aren't coins!

• Sadigh Gallery
  <http://www.ipgroup.com/sadigh/>

  Ancient coins, jewelry, artifacts, and fossils.

• Scott Travers Rare Coin Galleries
  <http://www.inch.com/~travers/travers3.htm>

  Information about Scott Travers' books, including some excerpts. Strange how this consumer advocate fills his web site with self-promotion and touts coin investment in two of his later books.

• Skye-Box Sports Memorabilia
  <http://www.ncia.net/skye-box/>

  Highland Mint sports rounds, illegally described as "coins".

• Spring Creek Rare Coins
  <http://www.dris.com/~pennyman/>

  Specializes in early American copper coins. Has good descriptions and nice large pictures for each coin. Unlike other sites, you get a good feel for what each coin is really like. This site leads the pack.

• Superior Stamp & Coin
  <http://www.amark.com/amark/>

  Another of the big numismatic auction houses. Doesn't have much for sale.

• Teletrade Certified Coin Auctions
  <http://web.coin-universe.com/teletrade/>

  A searchable auction catalog. Even though their auctions are computerized, you can't bid from the Internet. Not a good use of technology.

• Tim's Coin Link
  <http://www.dbs-mia.com/coins/>

  Under construction, only has links to other places.

• Tom Hoke
  <http://www.hic.net/tomcat/Index.html>

  Says he will give you the "exact location" of $50 million worth of buried treasure. Yeah, right. Why doesn't he go dig it up himself? Wait, you can also place a coin ad here for $10 a month. Hmmm, aren't there several places on the net where you can advertise coins for free?

• Trove Software
  <http://web.coin-universe.com/coin_elite/>

  Info on the Coin Elite inventory program for DOS, Windows, and Macintosh computers.

• Web Treasure
  <http://www.spies.com/curiox/>

  Mostly swords and other curiosities, but also has Chinese knife money and Athenian owls.

• World Wide Auctions
  <http://www.wwauction.com/>

  Beware, slabs are not returnable and there is no stated return policy for raw coins. Auction pages are too large to load easily.

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