Colorado Springs Show report - June 20-21 - Sorry, no pictures!
claychaser
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I attended the coin show on Wednesday early bird afternoon and Thursday.
Tuesday night was an interesting one in Colorado - several small tornados, hail, thunderstorms and bright sunshine in the space of a few hours. That's relevant, as I was going to pick up my friend, and go-to copper guy, Buck on Tuesday who was flying into Denver Airport. His flight got cancelled, and after a few machinations with Southwest, he got on a Wednesday morning flight. It all turned out OK, as I was able to land him in my car and make it to Colorado Springs right around the early bird opening.
The other quirk on Tuesday is that I got a call on from a dealer in Cheyenne who got sick at the last minute, and needed a box delivered to the show. So I hoofed it up there on Wednesday before heading over to DIA to lick up Buck.
The show was in a new location, an old Wal-Mart building converted to a meeting center/showroom. We each paid our $50 early bird fee and headed in. Since I had the stuff from Cheyenne, and two copy paper sized boxes of cheap proof sets I presold to Don at Falcon Coins (a show dealer), plus my roller bag, I helped myself to one of the shopping carts in the dealer loading area. I dropped off the Cheyenne stuff right away, but Don was a tidge late for the show so I kept the proof sets on the cart and made the rounds. I was the "homeless coin dealer". There were several funny comments about it, including queries asking if I was going to sleep with my cart in the parking lot, etc. I get catch a little flack from the show chairman about it, but I know Ken well enough to give it back.
I brought coins my usual box of 20 really nice coins to sell, plus other stuff, including errors and varieties. Sales of all items were very brisk, including the handful of 1909-VDB's broken out from original rolls. I previously send some other ones in for grading with Trueviews, but they are not done, so no pictures yet. Almost off of these coins, called the "Ring of Fire Collection", sold for my asking prices with no problems whatsoever. I actually sold enough out of the 20 coin box that I stopped showing coins so I could raise dealer prices.
I met up with David McCarthy from Kagins who had a Bechtler "backwards N" gold dollar to show me. This coin was struck in the 1839 era, so I was thinking it would be a cool addition to my "1839 Coins in Commerce" registry set (still unpublished). We agreed to meet the next day as we were both running out of time.
I then met with Joe Coggon and Paul B, and I showed them my varieties and minor errors. A deal was struck over the next day, and they ended up taking a good sized haul from me, and I got some more education.
The show ended at 7:00, and a Japanese dinner soon followed.
The show opened for early birds at 7:00 am on Thursday, and we showed up around 7:45 to an already happening bourse floor. I examined the Bechtler dollar, and decided to pass on it. David was gracious as usual, and he seemed to be enjoying the show. I did a few more deals, and then got roped into being behind Ken's table for a while as he took care of some show issues. I did buy a few things while I was there as well.
I completed just about everything by late afternoon, but decided to hang around til 5:00 and have dinner in Colorado Springs to wait out the Denver traffic. That was a good choice, as we flew back to northern Colorado and made it home before dark.
Thursday show attendance seemed light, but the people that were there all seemed to be doing business and the dealers seemed happy with the business that they did. If the show follows the history, Friday is usually the busiest day. There were some dealer no-shows and a few empty tables, but maybe these got used on Friday.
All in all, a good coin show and a lot less expense for me than going to Baltimore. Hopefully Baltimore and Colorado Springs can work it so the shows don't conflict on the dates, as I would see that as a positive for all.
That's all folks!
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Sounds like a very active and successful show, thanks for sharing.
Good report, thanks for posting it!
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Nice report, and sounds like you are truly a good Samaritan.
Always like to see this:
I brought coins my usual box of 20 really nice coins to sell, plus other stuff, including errors and varieties. Sales of all items were very brisk, including the handful of 1909-VDB's broken out from original rolls.
I'd also like to see the pics and get some back story on the original rolls of 1909-VDBs.
excellent report-thank you!
Very good report.... Thanks for the information on attendance... Cheers, RickO
Thanks for the very nice show report.
Strange show.
I was chatting with a forum member off to the side with one other guy, no one else was around. Then the guy who owns the show runs up out of nowhere insisting the guy I was chatting with needed to buy a $225 table.
I guess this new venue, that's set up specifically for trade shows, has manned Las Vegas security type cameras.
Maybe he can supply the images with sound your thread lacks, a birds eye type view from the ceiling ?
;^(
Bizarre experience.