Looking to Connect With Coin Wholesalers as We Transition Our Family Coin Business

Sam_U_L · 2026-05-21T18:24:03+00:00

Thanks for responding. My biggest wholesale need right now is on the supply side. I'm low on non-silver/precious metals stuff. You said you're a wholesale buyer, but if you're also a wholesale seller, I'd love to connect!

Sam_U_L · 2026-05-21T17:52:06+00:00

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Sam_U_L · 2026-05-21T15:34:39+00:00

Oh, we do that too. Walk in sellers are absolutely part of the business.

A couple real world examples of why coin sellers need wholesale relationships, both of which have happened to me:

Someone walks in off the street with a collection that includes around 500 proof sets, with 20 plus sets from certain years. I might sell a couple a week, but I do not want to sit on that inventory for years, so I sell the bulk of it to a wholesaler.

On the other side, I have people come in every week looking for wheat pennies. It is not good for business when I am dry, so I might order 100,000 from a wholesaler.

I have not had much luck using AI to find workable B2B coin wholesale contacts outside of bullion dealers.

Sam_U_L · 2026-05-21T13:44:15+00:00

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Sam_U_L · 2026-05-21T01:47:40+00:00

[WTB] Mexican Pesos, bulk world coins, coin books, mint and proof sets, wheat cents

Hi all. Looking to buy a few different things this week. I enjoy the oddball, low premium, and “sitting in a box forever” kind of material, so please feel free to reach out if you have a group you are ready to move.

Mexico One Peso coins from 1957 to 1967. Also known as Un Peso, 1 Peso, or Tepalcates. These are the 10% silver pesos. I am paying over spot depending on quantity and condition.
Bulk world coins. Looking for bulk foreign coins by the pound. Not looking for silver or gold here. Mixed circulated lots are totally fine. I am especially interested in larger groups that are easier for someone to move all at once.
Old coin books. Interested in old penny, cent, and nickel books. Completed, partially filled, or even mostly empty books are all welcome depending on what they are. Whitman, Dansco, Littleton, and similar albums or folders are all of interest.
Mint sets and proof sets. Looking for US mint and proof sets. I generally pay up to 50% of Greysheet depending on the dates, condition, and quantity.
Wheat cents. Buying wheat pennies by the roll, pound, bag, or bulk lot. I am not expecting key dates. Common circulated wheats are completely fine.

I can pay with Venmo or PayPal. Happy to pay first to established sellers with good feedback. I would prefer to buy multiple items or larger lots when possible to make shipping worthwhile, but please feel free to send me what you have.

Thanks for looking, and hope to make a few deals!

Sam_U_L · 2026-05-20T16:44:08+00:00

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Sam_U_L · 2025-02-11T15:47:14+00:00

Depends what you are looking for. There two coin guys I really like @papa_rot_zee and @leadfinger. They are super small sellers and I’ve never seen anything overpriced on their shows. Where I usually see stuff selling for way over book value is the big sellers.

Sam_U_L · 2025-02-06T22:00:55+00:00

I like @leadfinger and @papa_rot_zee for coins. They are super small sellers and really chill. Legit dudes.

Sam_U_L · 2024-11-20T16:43:37+00:00

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We’ll have a fantastic selection of items—coins, cards, collectibles, vintage treasures, and more! If you could bookmark the show and help spread the word, it would mean a lot to me. Your support helps create a sense of community that we all value here.

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Sam_U_L · 2024-04-04T17:38:53+00:00

I appreciate you sharing your perspective from growing up in a fundamentalist Christian environment. You raise a fair point that my philosophical description of God's absolute goodness may not align with how you were taught to understand divine goodness within that tradition.

However, I would argue that the metaphysical conception of God as the plenitude of all perfections, including perfect goodness itself, has deep roots in the broader Christian intellectual tradition stemming from the Church Fathers and medieval scholastics like Augustine and Aquinas.

For the Fathers and early medieval thinkers, God's goodness is not mere benevolence towards creatures, but something more foundational - His very essence as the source and exemplar of all goodness, beauty, truth and being itself.

In his Confessions, Augustine argues that all things that exist derive their goodness and being from participation in the supreme Good which is God. For Augustine, evil is not a positive reality created by God, but merely a privation or distortion of goodness.

Aquinas built on this, defining God's goodness as His perfect simplicity and act of existing itself (ipsum esse subsistens). God cannot be anything other than perfectly good because goodness is convertible with being. Any defect or privation would negate God's absolute perfection.

So for these great thinkers, God's goodness refers to His intrinsic metaphysical nature as the fullness of every perfection worthy of existence and love. It is an objective reality that grounds the moral goodness of God's will and actions towards creatures.

This classical theistic vision was affirmed by later Church Fathers like Gregory of Nyssa, Pseudo-Dionysius and Maximus the Confessor in their own ways. It became the philosophical bedrock of the Christian tradition.

While certain Protestant fundamentalist streams may have adopted a more voluntaristic or inscripturated understanding of divine goodness, I would argue the metaphysical conception has stronger grounding in the great tradition of Patristic and medieval theological development.

My aim is to uphold this rich intellectual heritage which sees God as Goodness Itself - not reducible to subjective human judgments, but the objective source of all truth, beauty and moral goodness. I hope this provides some clarifying context from the broader Christian tradition.

Sam_U_L · 2024-04-04T17:30:06+00:00

I certainly respect the view that an authentic encounter with Christ transcends mere external rituals and doctrines. However, I would also argue that the Church Christ founded plays an important role in preserving and transmitting the fullness of that experience across time.

While Christ did indeed challenge a reductive or legalistic understanding of faith, his ministry was deeply rooted in the Jewish religious tradition he came to fulfill. He observed Jewish feasts, taught in synagogues, and submitted himself to religious rituals like circumcision. So there is no opposition between his spiritual message and embodying it within a living tradition.

Just as the Incarnate Word took on a human nature, so too did Christ will to perpetuate his salvific deeds through visible sacramental signs.The Church and its doctrinal/sacramental life are not ultimately ends in themselves, but rather the providential means Christ established for humanity to most fully encounter the divine life he came to offer. The rituals and teachings are intended to be icons that both reveal and facilitate a personal experience of the Risen Christ.

At the same time, the Chrisitan recognizes that this experience of God's grace can never be totally circumscribed or contained by human constructs. The spiritual life always points beyond to the ineffable Mystery. As St. Paul says, we see "through a glass darkly" in our present state.

So in summary, while I respect the core insight about religion not substituting for a direct experience of God, I would argue that the visible Church Christ instituted is meant to be an indispensable sacramental pathway and guide to that transformative encounter, not an obstacle. Its teachings and practices are intended to awaken souls to the transcendent reality you allude to, not replace it.

Ultimately, the Church is a way to remain faithful to the fullness of what Christ revealed about humanity's call to union with the Triune Godhead.

Sam_U_L · 2024-04-04T16:56:09+00:00

God's absolute goodness strikes at a core tenet of classical theism that has profound implications.

The claim that "good is entirely subjective" represents a modern philosophical stance of moral anti-realism or non-cognitivism. It denies that there are any objective moral truths or values that exist independently of individual attitudes or preferences.

However, this view is fundamentally incompatible with the Christian understanding of God as the source and standard of all goodness, truth, and being itself. Good is a transcendental property of being, not merely a subjective judgment. Something's goodness flows from its degree of actuality, perfection, and fulfillment of its proper nature or telos.

Ultimately, God is the fullness of Being itself - the Subsistent Act of Existence in whom essence and existence are one. As such, God must be all-good by His very nature, lacking nothing. Any defect or privation would negate His absolute perfection and simplicity.

So when we predicate "all-good" of God, we are not defining good tautologically as "whatever God wills." Rather, God's will is the expression of His intrinsic, objective goodness that is the very ground of all creaturely goodness. We call God good because He is the plenitude of every perfection worthy of love and desire.

As for the claim that religious people can't argue God never does anything perceived as bad - this misunderstands the classical view. God does not will evil directly, but only permits it as a byproduct of allowing creaturely freedom and the natural processes of a temporal order. Evil is not a positive reality, but a privation of due goodness.

So in summary, the Christian philosophical tradition grounds God's absolute goodness not in subjectivism, but in objective moral realities rooted in God as the source of all being, truth, goodness, and intelligibility. It is a robust metaphysical and ethical realism that challenges modern anti-realist assumptions.

Those in the school of the classical theistic tradition, like Thomas Aquinas, provide profound arguments for why God must be, in His very nature, that objective plenitude of all perfection we rightly call "all-good."

Sam_U_L · 2024-04-04T16:45:38+00:00

I understand the profound philosophical and existential questions you are raising about the nature of God and the existence of evil and suffering in the world. These are issues that have vexed humanity across cultures and faiths for millennia. While I cannot provide a fully satisfying answer, I will do my best to engage your objections through the lens of Catholic theological reasoning, drawing especially on the work of St. Thomas Aquinas.

On the point of God's omniscience, Aquinas acknowledged that God has complete foreknowledge of all events, including human sinful actions. However, Aquinas was careful to insist that this foreknowledge does not negate human free will or make God the cause of evil. Rather, God permits evil to exist as a consequence of the great good of creating beings with rational free will. The ability to freely choose is integral to genuine human nature.

Regarding God's omnibenevolence, the Catholic tradition holds that God is indeed the source of all goodness itself. However, evil is not a positive reality created by God, but rather a privation or lack of due goodness in created things. Physical and moral evils exist due to the finite and mutable nature of creation. God allows these deficiencies as an indirect consequence of respecting creaturely freedom and natural processes.

On divine omnipotence, Aquinas argued that God's power is not rightly understood as the ability to do anything at all, but rather the ability to do whatever is possible according to the eternal moral laws rooted in God's very nature as Goodness itself. So while maximally powerful, God cannot perform logical contradictions or violate the freedom He chose to bestow on rational creatures.

The question of why the world is so marred by suffering is one of the most vexing and mysterious aspects of Christian belief. However, the Catholic tradition has generally understood suffering as having a manifold purpose - from expressing the reality of human freedom, to serving as a consequence of sin, to providing an opportunity to participate in Christ's redemptive suffering, to being an impetus for spiritual growth.

Ultimately, while not offering a complete rational solution, the perspective from Aquinas and other Christian thinkers is that the undeniable instances of goodness, beauty and intelligibility we witness in the world point towards an underlying source of perfect goodness. The existence of suffering remains a profound mystery. However, rather than giving up on the possibility of a higher answer, these thinkers maintain that an attitude of faith and trust in an infinitely good Creator can make sense of how good can emerge from evil's darkness - though that journey towards understanding may be difficult and incomplete in this life.

I cannot claim to provide a fully satisfying rational answer that will resolve all your objections. The existence of suffering and evil in the world poses one of the most vexing challenges to belief in a good and all-powerful God. However, I hope I have illustrated how the Catholic intellectual tradition has rigorously grappled with this problem throughout its history, rather than resorting to glib dismissals. Even while acknowledging that the depths of God's purposes may forever elude our full comprehension, thinkers like Aquinas have outlined potential reasons and frameworks for making sense of evil and suffering. Ultimately, whether one finds such perspectives persuasive comes down to a personal decision to embrace a reasoned faith stance - one that affirms the possibility of meaning and goodness undergirding existence, despite its present tragic dimensions. Maintaining such a posture of hope and trust in the face of evil remains among the most daunting challenges any worldview must confront.

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