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Charmy's SAN JOSE COIN SHOW REPORT (plus a little extra) w/lots of Pics!
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Before I head out on any road trip, I go to my favorite coffee house – Seattle’s Best – for 2 large lattes!
And those hot lattes tasted mighty good since it was a very foggy and rainy day the entire way up north.
I arrived at the Doubletree hotel in San Jose about 3:30 pm, checked in, then went over to the ballroom area where the show is held. Even though we were scheduled for set up at 5pm, unfortunately, there was another meeting going on in the room and it wouldn’t be ready for a while so all the dealers had to just sort of mingle around in the lobby near the ballroom with our carts until the room was emptied and then reset with the bourse tables. It was very frustrating!
We were finally let in around 7:30pm, and though it was pretty late, set up proceeded smoothly after that. Since we had dinner reservations at Spencer’s Steakhouse, I just set up my cases, then waited until morning to set out my inventory.
So a group of us met at Spencer’s with our delicious wine bottles in tow – everyone brought a bottle and then we do a wine tasting. And since we were bringing several bottles, we had negotiated a discounted corking fee.
This is just some of our group
We each have a separate glass so we could taste each type of wine
All of the wine was amazing!
However, after dinner, one of my friends was feeling faint and dizzy (no, not from the wine!), so we laid him on the floor. H soon said he felt better but when we set him back up, he got faint again. So they called the paramedics and took him to the local hospital which was just a couple miles away. I went there with his wife. When they couldn’t find anything wrong, they sent him home with instructions to see his own doctor when he got back home. It was about 2am by the time we got back to the hotel – what a long night!
They opened the show to dealers at 7am the next morning to help make up some of the time we lost the night before for set up. So I arrived at 7am to set up my table.
I set out this counterfeit 1909-S vdb in a PCGS counterfeit holder that a customer lent me to help educate those who haven’t seen what a counterfeit holder looks like. It got a lot of attention throughout the show.
The coin is a pretty obvious counterfeit, but sadly the holder would fool many people. But if you look carefully, you can see the label is poorly made, the spacing is off, and the bar code is slightly different. Also, the holder itself is not as well made as a true PCGS holder. The scary part is that the certification number and bar code do match up with the PCGS website. I spoke to Don Willis, and he said that the counterfeiters are taking real certification numbers and creating fake labels. Everyone who examined the coin was shaking their heads in frustration at the idea of how many of these counterfeit coins are out in the market.
This is the lobby of outside the front door of the show
And some of the hard working San Jose Club show volunteers!
The show became very busy and crowded throughout the day. I did more buying than selling, mostly raw coins and a few certified coins. Here are some photos of the bourse floor on Friday.
Gene Bruder and his daughter-in-law Rachie (Gene’s wife Diane broke her arm and is recuperating)
My table!
After the show, we had reservations again at Spencer’s Steakhouse for dinner. While I was waiting for the rest of my party, I had a drink in the bar lobby and Wei stopped by to say hi!
We had a more intimate dinner party since we had planned ahead of time and each person brought some particularly wonderful wines, including this fabulous Opus One that I contributed!
We had a wonderful and relaxing time at dinner – it’s great to share good wine with very good friends!
On Saturday, the show became even more busy than the day before, with most dealers reporting much better sales than on Friday, including me!
I even bought another Wiener Cathedral medal for my collection – this one was in an original leather and velvet case!!
Here are some of the forum members who stopped by my table on Saturday
Stealer
Dennis88
Sean/Kookoox10
Wei/WTCG, Stealer, Original Dan
My favorite security guard – Boo!
I had heard about the new Matrix casino that just opened directly across the street from the hotel and planned to go there after the show on Saturday
However, I met up with a couple of my dealer friends and had an impromptu dinner with them in the bar area of the hotel. Then a couple other dealer friends joined us and we ended up just hanging out there for a couple hours.
Logan McKechnie of VAMS & More
Logan’s beautiful daughter Cindy
So after that, I just called it an early night, and went back to my room. I didn’t want to stay out too late since I knew I had a long drive home on Sunday.
Sunday was pretty slow, as expected, so I packed up around a little early to get a head start on my long drive home. Luckily, the weather was a lot better than the trip to the show. Actually, the weather on the way home was absolutely beautiful!!
Even aside from a couple glitches, the show was pretty good – I’d give it a B. I had decent sales for the size of the show, made some good buys, and had a great time with some good friends!
Now, this next part is somewhat OT, and I hope you don’t mind and will indulge me a little, but I’d like to continue my report one extra day. See, my hubby and I had hard-to-get tickets to The Who “Quadraphenia” concert last night at the Pond in Anaheim. The concert was, of course, fantastic! Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey played for over 2 hours with no break – and they never sounded better! I especially loved hearing them play some of my favorites - “Pinball Wizard,” “Teenage Wasteland,” Who Are You,” and “Won’t Get Fooled Again.” Here are a few photos I took last night
We arrived a little early – our seats were just above the floor level - that’s my hubby waiving from our seats
Pete Townshend is amazing on the guitar playing “Pinball Wizard”
Roger Daltrey - “We Don’t Get Fooled Again”
Pete Townshend – “Teenage Wasteland”
And those hot lattes tasted mighty good since it was a very foggy and rainy day the entire way up north.
I arrived at the Doubletree hotel in San Jose about 3:30 pm, checked in, then went over to the ballroom area where the show is held. Even though we were scheduled for set up at 5pm, unfortunately, there was another meeting going on in the room and it wouldn’t be ready for a while so all the dealers had to just sort of mingle around in the lobby near the ballroom with our carts until the room was emptied and then reset with the bourse tables. It was very frustrating!
We were finally let in around 7:30pm, and though it was pretty late, set up proceeded smoothly after that. Since we had dinner reservations at Spencer’s Steakhouse, I just set up my cases, then waited until morning to set out my inventory.
So a group of us met at Spencer’s with our delicious wine bottles in tow – everyone brought a bottle and then we do a wine tasting. And since we were bringing several bottles, we had negotiated a discounted corking fee.
This is just some of our group
We each have a separate glass so we could taste each type of wine
All of the wine was amazing!
However, after dinner, one of my friends was feeling faint and dizzy (no, not from the wine!), so we laid him on the floor. H soon said he felt better but when we set him back up, he got faint again. So they called the paramedics and took him to the local hospital which was just a couple miles away. I went there with his wife. When they couldn’t find anything wrong, they sent him home with instructions to see his own doctor when he got back home. It was about 2am by the time we got back to the hotel – what a long night!
They opened the show to dealers at 7am the next morning to help make up some of the time we lost the night before for set up. So I arrived at 7am to set up my table.
I set out this counterfeit 1909-S vdb in a PCGS counterfeit holder that a customer lent me to help educate those who haven’t seen what a counterfeit holder looks like. It got a lot of attention throughout the show.
The coin is a pretty obvious counterfeit, but sadly the holder would fool many people. But if you look carefully, you can see the label is poorly made, the spacing is off, and the bar code is slightly different. Also, the holder itself is not as well made as a true PCGS holder. The scary part is that the certification number and bar code do match up with the PCGS website. I spoke to Don Willis, and he said that the counterfeiters are taking real certification numbers and creating fake labels. Everyone who examined the coin was shaking their heads in frustration at the idea of how many of these counterfeit coins are out in the market.
This is the lobby of outside the front door of the show
And some of the hard working San Jose Club show volunteers!
The show became very busy and crowded throughout the day. I did more buying than selling, mostly raw coins and a few certified coins. Here are some photos of the bourse floor on Friday.
Gene Bruder and his daughter-in-law Rachie (Gene’s wife Diane broke her arm and is recuperating)
My table!
After the show, we had reservations again at Spencer’s Steakhouse for dinner. While I was waiting for the rest of my party, I had a drink in the bar lobby and Wei stopped by to say hi!
We had a more intimate dinner party since we had planned ahead of time and each person brought some particularly wonderful wines, including this fabulous Opus One that I contributed!
We had a wonderful and relaxing time at dinner – it’s great to share good wine with very good friends!
On Saturday, the show became even more busy than the day before, with most dealers reporting much better sales than on Friday, including me!
I even bought another Wiener Cathedral medal for my collection – this one was in an original leather and velvet case!!
Here are some of the forum members who stopped by my table on Saturday
Stealer
Dennis88
Sean/Kookoox10
Wei/WTCG, Stealer, Original Dan
My favorite security guard – Boo!
I had heard about the new Matrix casino that just opened directly across the street from the hotel and planned to go there after the show on Saturday
However, I met up with a couple of my dealer friends and had an impromptu dinner with them in the bar area of the hotel. Then a couple other dealer friends joined us and we ended up just hanging out there for a couple hours.
Logan McKechnie of VAMS & More
Logan’s beautiful daughter Cindy
So after that, I just called it an early night, and went back to my room. I didn’t want to stay out too late since I knew I had a long drive home on Sunday.
Sunday was pretty slow, as expected, so I packed up around a little early to get a head start on my long drive home. Luckily, the weather was a lot better than the trip to the show. Actually, the weather on the way home was absolutely beautiful!!
Even aside from a couple glitches, the show was pretty good – I’d give it a B. I had decent sales for the size of the show, made some good buys, and had a great time with some good friends!
Now, this next part is somewhat OT, and I hope you don’t mind and will indulge me a little, but I’d like to continue my report one extra day. See, my hubby and I had hard-to-get tickets to The Who “Quadraphenia” concert last night at the Pond in Anaheim. The concert was, of course, fantastic! Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey played for over 2 hours with no break – and they never sounded better! I especially loved hearing them play some of my favorites - “Pinball Wizard,” “Teenage Wasteland,” Who Are You,” and “Won’t Get Fooled Again.” Here are a few photos I took last night
We arrived a little early – our seats were just above the floor level - that’s my hubby waiving from our seats
Pete Townshend is amazing on the guitar playing “Pinball Wizard”
Roger Daltrey - “We Don’t Get Fooled Again”
Pete Townshend – “Teenage Wasteland”
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Thanks for the awesome report. I have to try and make it up there one year,
I forget how beautiful the countryside can look here in California
And the show looks like it was pretty good.
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The concert looks awesome too!!
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Great report.
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I went to a Who concert here in Toronto about 10-15 years ago and wow! it was like stepping back in time to the 1980's.
Not because of the music, but because of the people in the audience.
I've never seen so many men wear their shirts open with 3 gold chains around their neck and there were even some guys wearing a suit jacket with the sleeves pushed up (you remember, the way we used to wear them in the discos!!)
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Great report and pics
You do know of course that the song "Teenage Wasteland" is actually titled "Baba O'Riley" don't ya'?
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I'm going this Friday.
I hope they play a lot from the Quadrophenia double album.
I WILL enjoy the pinball wizard tune. I like the entire Tommy rock opera.
Those rotters are getting better at these fake holders.
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<< <i>Great pics! (as usual).
I went to a Who concert here in Toronto about 10-15 years ago and wow! it was like stepping back in time to the 1980's.
Not because of the music, but because of the people in the audience.
I've never seen so many men wear their shirts open with 3 gold chains around their neck and there were even some guys wearing a suit jacket with the sleeves pushed up (you remember, the way we used to wear them in the discos!!) >>
Ive been to one Who concert. It was many years ago and it was the single longest concert I've ever been to.
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<< <i>Great pics! (as usual).
I went to a Who concert here in Toronto about 10-15 years ago and wow! it was like stepping back in time to the 1980's.
Not because of the music, but because of the people in the audience.
I've never seen so many men wear their shirts open with 3 gold chains around their neck and there were even some guys wearing a suit jacket with the sleeves pushed up (you remember, the way we used to wear them in the discos!!) >>
I saw The Who on their farewell tour back in the early 90's in St Louis at Busch Stadium. It was like stepping back into the 70's............
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Those wines in the second group were some of the big hitters!
Scarry about the counterfits.
The Who concert report was an added bonus!
Best.
The fake holder is more scary than the actual coin on that counterfeit 1909-S VDB. The coin is very clearly fake, but the holder is hard to tell.
And yes I definitely enjoy my coin shows, wine, etc., but the company I keep is what makes my show experiences the best!
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I am a huge Who fan. I was on the sixth row dead center of the Who's It's Hard tour in the 1980s. I thought the Who were going to play mainly their newer songs. I was so wrong. They played mostly all their classic music. Probably the best concert I have ever been to.
Love the pics of The Who, too. Wow!
Dave
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