Green Bay Coin Show Report
willy
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Went to the coin show in Green Bay yesterday of course it was at the Stadium Bar & Grill overlooking Lambeau Field. Being in Wisconsin there was a bar right on the bourse floor for a cocktail if needed. Opening was at 9AM and the place was packed from the get go. Probably 30-40 dealers and I would say 200-250 on the floor at all times through noon when I left. It was elbow to elbow. Everyone had Masks on at 9AM by 10:30 mask had all but disappeared especially with the dealers.
Silver rounds were selling for $32 and Silver Eagles $37. Short supply and disappeared rapidly. Buyers had literally fistfuls of cash, and were spending it on Gold and Silver. Lots of buyers going through albums and bins buying 20-30 coins at a time.
The crowd was much younger than I am used to seeing at coin shows in this area. I anomalously had a dealer give 3 boy scouts who running around with magnifying glasses a chance to each choose a silver round or eagle of there choice from his selection. Not sure who was more surprised the boys or the dealer.
As far as my Type set goes there was not a single coin available for my higher end PCGS CAC type set or Buffalo and Barber Quarter collections. Even if I was just starting out with zero coins. There was nothing of quality at all. I was able to buy 3- 2-1/2 Gold Indians for my capitol holder. Only missing one.
Not sure if there was 15 CAC coins on the whole floor. Most dealers were raw coins only and dealers I bought from when I first started and sold me MS raw coins that almost all ended up being AU or cleaned when I was forced to sell around 2005. Left a bad taste in my mouth for many years and that is why I am almost 100 % PCGS and CAC now. I still do some Dansco folders and a raw 2-1/2 Indian capital holder but am cautious in how much I tie up in raw coins. I am the exception by the looks of it in Wisconsin. Lots of album collectors for sure.
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There is plenty of pent up demand for in-person coin shows. I hope those people without masks have had their COVID19 shots.
Thanks for the report.
Not sure on the Covid 19 shots. I have had mine and there is absolutely no wait to get one in Wisconsin. So no excuse not to have it if going to a show like this with close quarters.
Excellent report seems like the quality stuff is just tough right now from the east 2 the west. Nice to see some people enjoying there life's!!
Sounds like the Melbourne (FL) show dealers set up there, based on the inventory.
Thanks for the show report @willy I wish I could have been there to enjoy a "live show" for a change.
I was born and raised in southeast Wisconsin and my father had season tickets for the Packers. He used to take customers to the games in Milwaukee (remember those?) and I usually got to go to the last game of the season because the customers would wimp out due to the cold. One of my favorite memories of time with my father along with the peppermint schnapps and brandy he used to let me have..... all while fully dressed in my winter gear sitting on top of an inch or two of ice on the bleachers.
I need to make a pilgrimage back to Lambeau - perhaps I can figure out a time to get to a coin show and re-visit one of the greatest sports stadiums in the world.
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Lambeau Field and tailgating is the best. I am a season ticket holder with inside club seats, but I almost always sit outside with some friends. We brought Black Berry Brandy in a Flask back in the day. It was good to be at a coin show and see things getting back to normal. I am in the Northwoods with lots of lakes. Half of Southern Wisconsin and Chicago where up here all last summer and this winter. The restaurant's and bars have been open with no real restriction's since late Fall including all the Schools being open face to face since September. A number of the Schools ended Masks a couple of weeks ago. Vaccines' are available anytime you want one.
Green Bay is in my neighborhood and I go to Packers games at least once a year. Too bad I was working and couldn't make it to the show. The dealers wares sound conspicuously like the garbage I see at my local coin show in Upper Michigan.
Nice to see so many people living life as they want. This image is such a welcome sight.
Awsome show 👍👍👍
Looks very well attended.
Glad you enjoyed it ..... I really miss the shows.
It is fantastic to see shows happening...I would've taken one peek and then bailed. And I'm fully vaccinated.
The simple concept... vaccinated people can still get infected although the risk is significantly reduced and the risk of death is almost non-existent...but because the vaccinated can potentially be infected it means the can potentially be infecting those around them. And then infect people unknowingly for up to 2 or 3 weeks.
The only safe scenario at the moment for vaccinated unmasked people is with other vaccinated unmasked people.
By the way, the vaccine did not make my long haul symptoms vaporize after 5 months...but I am still on a consistent albeit very slow healing curve...the thought of getting it again, even though I'm vaccinated is more than enough to keep me from hanging around a scene like that. Most everyone has heard about longhaulers at this point and I promise it's all too real.
Kudos to those enjoying it though! I get that it's their choice but there is unfortunately no way to know how many of those people may be soon regretting attending while maskless... Colorado is actually approaching herd immunity now thanks to an enormous number vaccinated here!
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Weird, in my city it's about 90%+ compliance to mandates.
First trip out of town a couple weeks ago. One day to Augusta and next day to Wilmington I was basically the odd one out.
The Wilmington show had better masking than the OP's report, but it too could have been better.
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Big buck 1975 we stopped by the casino in Harris and we had dinner at the stone house restaurant in Escanaba Saturday before the show. The seafood dishes we had were excellent. I have spend a few November days fishing Lake Michigan for large walleyes in snow squalls.
Escanaba here as well.
I was at the Stone House last Friday.
@willy.... Thanks for the show report and great pictures. Nice gesture for the Boy Scouts, likely working on their Coin Collecting Merit Badge. Cheers, RickO
Cool a coin show with people, life is good
A show like this would have been unfathomable a few months ago. Now we can see it as a lurch back to what we can call normal. If the positive case load percentage for covid is low and the vaccination rate is decent, then shows like this are certainly doable. In San Antonio TX, the positivity rate is < 2% now, which is great.
I wouldn't hesitate to go to a show like this, but I'd still wear a mask if it was crowded like in the photos - but maybe not in a few more months. Wearing one doesn't affect your coin collecting at all, you're not wearing it over your eyes.
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Great pics and great report. Thanks
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Thanks for the report. I get my 2nd shot next week and am kinda planning to attend Summer FUN. With a year+ of very few quality shows, I imagine it will be crazy packed.
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Nice - we are moving south soon but I have lived here for 20 years and have caught lots of giant eyes. Biggest was 14.6 for me.
We've been having shows in Northern Utah for the past year without interruption.