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CSNS Show Report

BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,370 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited April 26, 2019 7:07PM in U.S. Coin Forum

Coin shows are great, even when they are just OK. As I read other CSNS reports I wonder, what else would these people rather be doing today... certainly not being at work.

I woke up at 5am, popped on the Nespresso and grabbed a quick shower preparing myself for the 3 hour drive to the north side of Chicago through the traffic and toll roads surrounding the city. I listened to "The Peoples History of the United States" along the way, a fascinating books if you have the time. Arriving at the convention center at 8:30 I spent an hour lot viewing the US $5's and the Latin American portions of the sale with the hope that at least one lot stuck out to me as a MUST BUY, but alas nothing. Only one coin seemed nice enough but I actually already had a nicer piece so not a bid placed for me.

As an aside, I started collecting coins in 2006 and dove pretty far into the deep end right off the bat after a trip to Dahlonega with collecting rare date gold, a literal mine field for an advanced collector but a nuclear war for the completely unexperienced and unsupported new collector. As per usual for me, the gold section of the sale was completely unacceptable. Brightened, lightened, hairlines, blah. Today I collect mostly Latin American type three reasons: 1) Coins are still available in MS and completely original (US collectors should study world coins for what proper surfaces should look like, 2) I can be the best or near the best in some fields vs. paying $25k for a mid-grade rare gold piece 3) I have dealer friends in this space who make the hobby fun (I also do in rare gold thanks to Doug and Irma).

I made my way to the world section of the show and quickly scanned the tables, seeing a few coins which were interesting but not all there for me. Along the way seeing my friend @MrEureka who is the best of the best in what I collect. I made my way to @CoinRaritiesOnline and saw my friend John and picked up my recent purchases and saw @Regulated to show off a few coins and get some expert advice.

I spent my day looking for three things: 1) Awesome Latin American type, 2) Anything from my hometown of Kalamazoo, 3) original rare date gold. In the end I added 1 (and after an email 2) 1/2R's which are basically the best examples extant for two Latin series, 5 tokens from Kalamazoo, MI, 0 pieces of rare gold aside from the eBay purchase which landed in my mailbox as I got home for a super nice P45+ New Orleans $5.

Along the way I spent good time with the afore mentioned dealers, saw @fishteeth which is always awesome, and chatted one dealer who I know well from local activities who displayed his eclectic collection of Hawaiian material including the original printing plates for the currency.

For me this hobby is about seeing and buying coins and making good friends and I bought a few pieces and saw some friends so all around a great trip.

A few pieces for fun I picked up at the show:


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  • jonrunsjonruns Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 26, 2019 7:31PM

    Great report!!! Sounds like a really fun time...thanks for sharing!!! Beautiful newps.

  • CharlotteDudeCharlotteDude Posts: 3,146 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great report, B - thank you. And ditto on the "Brightened, lightened, hairlines, blah" when it comes to early (1795 - 1834) and branch mint gold... unfortunately, so many have been ruined.

    Got Crust....y gold?
  • kazkaz Posts: 9,246 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks for the report, I enjoyed reading it. 3 great looking coins posted!

  • hchcoinhchcoin Posts: 4,836 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just looked at your Latin America digital album. Simply awesome!

  • Bob13Bob13 Posts: 1,538 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That South Peru 8 reales is fantastic. I love the imagery - looks like a postcard or tourist poster on the reverse. But not sure I have ever seen one that nice!

    My current "Box of 20"

  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,642 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sorry I missed you there. Thanks for the report.

  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 27, 2019 4:22PM

    Wonderful report.

  • PQueuePQueue Posts: 901 ✭✭✭

    RE:
    And ditto on the "Brightened, lightened, hairlines, blah" when it comes to early (1795 - 1834) and branch mint gold... unfortunately, so many have been ruined.
    ...you mean the "vast majority" have been ruined

  • alohagaryalohagary Posts: 2,830 ✭✭✭✭

    Wow, wish you could post the plates for the Hawaii currency

  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great report Brian! Love the Colombia 8!!!

    m

    Walker Proof Digital Album
    Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
  • ProofmorganProofmorgan Posts: 788 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice report! Right with you on the gold. Very frustrating to find any original material....

    Collector of Original Early Gold with beginnings in Proof Morgan collecting.
  • fishteethfishteeth Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Those are some great coins. Didn't find anything for my collection but had a great time talking to dealers and collectors.

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,633 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Is it snowing there yet?

    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • thefinnthefinn Posts: 2,657 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice Latn American pieces. The Potosi 4 Reales caught my eye, but the other pieces are amazing too. If I had to choose, it would be a real Sophie's choice.
    How we're the exhibis, with the new exorbitant charges to collectors?

    thefinn
  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Justacommeman said:
    Great report Brian! Love the Colombia 8!!!

    m

    Liked that Colombia 8 too. Brian I have a 1970's Gibson Gospel guitar with Kalamazoo label inside .....made of mahogany!
    Interested?

    @boiler78 said:
    Man I love that Cuzco 8 r..... it would make a perfect mate to the 8 escudo piece I bought yesterday at the show......

    That is an AWESOME coin !

    I manage money. I earn money. I save money .
    I give away money. I collect money.
    I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.




  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @boiler78 said:
    Man I love that Cuzco 8 r..... it would make a perfect mate to the 8 escudo piece I bought yesterday at the show......

    I love that coin and saw it on the floor. I recall it from when it sold in Europe some time back. Wonderful!

  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,394 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Boosibri said:
    US collectors should study world coins for what proper surfaces should look like

    Good point!

    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @bidask said:

    @Justacommeman said:
    Great report Brian! Love the Colombia 8!!!

    m

    Liked that Colombia 8 too. Brian I have a 1970's Gibson Gospel guitar with Kalamazoo label inside .....made of mahogany!
    Interested?

    @boiler78 said:
    Man I love that Cuzco 8 r..... it would make a perfect mate to the 8 escudo piece I bought yesterday at the show......

    That is an AWESOME coin !

    Could be interested but have no idea what it is worth!

  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Boosibri said:

    @bidask said:

    @Justacommeman said:
    Great report Brian! Love the Colombia 8!!!

    m

    Liked that Colombia 8 too. Brian I have a 1970's Gibson Gospel guitar with Kalamazoo label inside .....made of mahogany!
    Interested?

    @boiler78 said:
    Man I love that Cuzco 8 r..... it would make a perfect mate to the 8 escudo piece I bought yesterday at the show......

    That is an AWESOME coin !

    Could be interested but have no idea what it is worth!

    https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-old-gibson-guitar-factory-kalamazoo-michigan

    I manage money. I earn money. I save money .
    I give away money. I collect money.
    I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.




  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Speaking of world coin surfaces I just bought this coin raw.

    Very reflective surfaces ! !

    Orange toning ..... not sure what to think of it .


    I manage money. I earn money. I save money .
    I give away money. I collect money.
    I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.




  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The South Peru could use more design elements. :D
    I have one, too.

  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @topstuf said:
    The South Peru could use more design elements. :D
    I have one, too.

    It’s reverse reminds me of the packed in design of the Texas Commem reverse. Not a millimeter of space left

  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,336 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @boiler78 said:
    Man I love that Cuzco 8 r..... it would make a perfect mate to the 8 escudo piece I bought yesterday at the show......

    You were there boiler?

  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Raybo said:

    @boiler78 said:
    Man I love that Cuzco 8 r..... it would make a perfect mate to the 8 escudo piece I bought yesterday at the show......

    You were there boiler?

    I did not know he collects world coins.

    I manage money. I earn money. I save money .
    I give away money. I collect money.
    I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.




  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,336 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @bidask said:

    @Raybo said:

    @boiler78 said:
    Man I love that Cuzco 8 r..... it would make a perfect mate to the 8 escudo piece I bought yesterday at the show......

    You were there boiler?

    I did not know he collects world coins.

    Doesn't matter. :#

  • ElmerFusterpuckElmerFusterpuck Posts: 4,777 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice report! Coin shows are what you make them out to be. Even if you don't find what you are looking for, it's still time among coins and looking at them. Some of the bitter people on this forum would very likely find fault with the cutest puppy too - complain about his breath, the tail might be QC, one ear is slightly off center and so on.

  • boiler78boiler78 Posts: 3,076 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I did attend Central States and I am happy I did. I have been looking for the Cuzco 8r and 8e coins for several years. The handful of 8 escudo coins that I've looked at (up to this past Friday) all had striking/planchet or cleaning/damage issues and the 8r in mint state seems to be just as difficult. I'll keep looking for the 8 r........

    I'm not a true world coin collector but I am drawn to several of the Central and South American issues.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks for the excellent show report..... and I have also had a growing interest in world coins... seems I have been looking at them more and more over the past nine months or so... might be time for me to 'give birth' to that area of collecting.... particularly the gold and silver pieces....Cheers, RickO

  • JimTylerJimTyler Posts: 3,644 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This was one of those just OK shows ? Sounds like you were able to make lemonade out of a lemon. This was the first year I didn't go in 5 or 6 years ( as long as they've been holding it there). I did a dry run in my mind and couldn't get myself to go even though it's only about a 45 minute drive. Spent Thursday night at the Marc Martel concert it was awesome and made missing a lemon coin show irrelevant.

  • dbldie55dbldie55 Posts: 7,741 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice report. There is almost always a positive to any coin show. Some things are just a bonus.

    Collector and Researcher of Liberty Head Nickels. ANA LM-6053
  • DCWDCW Posts: 7,567 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Boosibri said:

    That is a great piece. Looks like it is "all there." I have found memories of Cuzco, which archeologically speaking, is the Latin American Cairo.
    Congrats on another great pickup and excellent show report!

    Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
    "Coin collecting for outcasts..."

  • Coin FinderCoin Finder Posts: 7,347 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great looking pick ups!

  • shorecollshorecoll Posts: 5,447 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thank you for the excellent report.

    ANA-LM, NBS, EAC
  • goldengolden Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Love the 1770 Pillar Dollar.

  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,445 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great report - thanks for sharing the NEWPS! :+1:

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  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice report....sorry I missed this year.

  • fox9487fox9487 Posts: 305 ✭✭✭

    @Boosibri An excellent thread/report. I was hooked immediately with the mention of Howard Zinn's "The Peoples History of the United States". An assigned read for me in college. Still have it. "Fasinating" might be an understatement considering today's climate of..........

    :/

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,647 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice report... Sounds like a great day!

  • thebeavthebeav Posts: 3,877 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Those are some really beautiful coins.
    It's easy to see the attraction !

  • TPRCTPRC Posts: 3,814 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks for the report. And those are some nice coins. I thought you also collected Irish coins.

    Tom

  • RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Central and South American republic coinage is among the most interesting in the world.

  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,776 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Good report. Congrats in connection with finding some terrific additions

    Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TPRC said:
    Thanks for the report. And those are some nice coins. I thought you also collected Irish coins.

    I did when I was living in dublin but I’ve been focused on Latin American for the last several years

  • tommy44tommy44 Posts: 2,313 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Great report, looks like you had a good time. Thanks for posting. I like the Cuzco piece a lot.

    it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide

  • Cougar1978Cougar1978 Posts: 8,725 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 1, 2019 6:53AM

    Great report. Nice world Coins thanks for showing. World coins one of my areas of interest.

    Coins & Currency
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,070 ✭✭✭✭✭

    nice report. I like the stuff you picked up as well

  • ReeceReece Posts: 378 ✭✭✭

    Great show report.!

    RWK

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