Manchester NH coin expo show report.

markelman1125

The show was awesome, great coins and great people. Sold a feew coins and bought some nice 19th century proofs

ike126

Thank you for the report!! Thats some variety of good looking material!!

JMS1223

Thanks for sharing. Now I can see what I missed. Looked like some fun stuff to look through. Not sure if I would had bought anything so maybe I saved some money because I couldn’t make it.

kaz

thanks for the report & photos! Great artifact from the SF quake and fire.

RichieURich

Nice pickups and nice report, thanks for posting it.

Kliao

Thanks for sharing. Neat patterns too.

markelman1125

@RichieURich said:
Nice pickups and nice report, thanks for posting it.

Not those proofs, I picked up these

golden

Thanks for the report. What day and time were the photos taken? It almost looks like a ghost town.

markelman1125

@golden said:
Thanks for the report. What day and time were the photos taken? It almost looks like a ghost town.

It was Saturday around noon

RichieURich

Those coins you picked up are nice, congrats.

WAYNEAS

@markelman1125 said:

@RichieURich said:
Nice pickups and nice report, thanks for posting it.

Not those proofs, I picked up these

Love your pick ups especially the '82.
Wayne

coinbuf

Looks like a very nice show with lots of dealers and lots of very nice material to view, I hope the collector traffic was better than the photos suggest. And congrats on your new additions, those are a couple of very nice looking proofs.

markelman1125

@coinbuf said:
Looks like a very nice show with lots of dealers and lots of very nice material to view, I hope the collector traffic was better than the photos suggest. And congrats on your new additions, those are a couple of very nice looking proofs.

Yea it seems void a bit but every table had at least one customer looking or buying a coin at a time

keyman64

Looks like a nice time!

divecchia

@markelman1125

Below is the twin sister to your 1883 Seated Quarter and the big sister the 1873 Seated Liberty Half w/arrows. I picked these up at the same table (Elizabeth Coggan Numismatics). These were my first transactions at her table and she was amazingly friendly from transactions that I saw her do with her customers. I did my transactions at her table with a gentleman who was very patient with me as he pulled out many of the same coins over and over again while I was trying to decide what to purchase. I thought I recognized him after my second transaction, but I could not figure out where I remembered him from. After my second purchase and speaking with him for about 10 or 15 minutes I told him a story (from 1999) about me selling my 1907 High Relief $20 gold to a gentleman named Miles at J.J. Teaparty in Boston; he point to his lanyard and said, "I'm Miles". I was blown away. I knew that many years back Liz Coggan worked for J.J. Teaparty, but I never knew that Miles stayed with her when she started up Elizabeth Coggan Numismatics. It was great catching up with him and going back and forth with some old stories of the three coin shops that were within 150 feet of each other on Bromfield Street in Boston. What a blast from the past. It brought back some great memories of when I first collected coins in the late 1980's and early 1990's.

Donato

markelman1125

@divecchia awesome 👏.
Yea, Coggan was great 👍. I was able to get the price down by $130 and also traded some of my Morgan’s through negotiation. Awesome dealer with awesome coins👍 I saw the twin you bought but chose mine for the cameo appearance and the more affordable price

divecchia

@markelman1125 said:
@divecchia awesome 👏.
Yea, Coggan was great 👍. I was able to get the price down by $130 and also traded some of my Morgan’s through negotiation. Awesome dealer with awesome coins👍 I saw the twin you bought but chose mine for the cameo appearance and the more affordable price

That was a great pickup for you, for sure. I looked at both coins 2 or 3 times and was leaning towards yours also. You chose for me, so I opted for the other as it was clean with no distracting marks or hairlines.

Donato

markelman1125

@divecchia said:

@markelman1125 said:
@divecchia awesome 👏.
Yea, Coggan was great 👍. I was able to get the price down by $130 and also traded some of my Morgan’s through negotiation. Awesome dealer with awesome coins👍 I saw the twin you bought but chose mine for the cameo appearance and the more affordable price

That was a great pickup for you, for sure. I looked at both coins 2 or 3 times and was leaning towards yours also. You chose for me, so I opted for the other as it was clean with no distracting marks or hairlines.

Donato

Yea hard choice as both were absolutely stunning
Btw what time were you at the show, I was 10:30-12:50, we might have crossed paths

Desert Moon

Great report and great pickups. Very encouraging to see an active show and active collectors finding great coins!

Best, SH

divecchia

@markelman1125 said:

@divecchia said:

@markelman1125 said:
@divecchia awesome 👏.
Yea, Coggan was great 👍. I was able to get the price down by $130 and also traded some of my Morgan’s through negotiation. Awesome dealer with awesome coins👍 I saw the twin you bought but chose mine for the cameo appearance and the more affordable price

That was a great pickup for you, for sure. I looked at both coins 2 or 3 times and was leaning towards yours also. You chose for me, so I opted for the other as it was clean with no distracting marks or hairlines.

Donato

Yea hard choice as both were absolutely stunning
Btw what time were you at the show, I was 10:30-12:50, we might have crossed paths

@markelman1125

I was at the show from 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM. You bought the coin as I came back to the table to ask Miles to look at it for the third time. He pointed to Liz and said that she had it. I then had Miles pull out the other Seated Quarter to buy it while you were working your deal with Liz. There where 2 guys between us looking through a bunch of coins, so I never looked over to get to see you. You likely left while I was entrenched in conversation with Miles so I never got to see you.

Edit to add: I also so many of the pattern pieces that you photographed above at Long Island Coin (Chris Imperato's table). He likes to do show and tell and pulls the coins out and explains the history of the piece or backstory to it. He is a genuine great guy also.

Donato

markelman1125

@divecchia said:

@markelman1125 said:

@divecchia said:

@markelman1125 said:
@divecchia awesome 👏.
Yea, Coggan was great 👍. I was able to get the price down by $130 and also traded some of my Morgan’s through negotiation. Awesome dealer with awesome coins👍 I saw the twin you bought but chose mine for the cameo appearance and the more affordable price

That was a great pickup for you, for sure. I looked at both coins 2 or 3 times and was leaning towards yours also. You chose for me, so I opted for the other as it was clean with no distracting marks or hairlines.

Donato

Yea hard choice as both were absolutely stunning
Btw what time were you at the show, I was 10:30-12:50, we might have crossed paths

@markelman1125

I was at the show from 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM. You bought the coin as I came back to the table to ask Miles to look at it for the third time. He pointed to Liz and said that she had it. I then had Miles pull out the other Seated Quarter to buy it while you were working your deal with Liz. There where 2 guys between us looking through a bunch of coins, so I never looked over to get to see you. You likely left while I was entrenched in conversation with Miles so I never got to see you.

Edit to add: I also so many of the pattern pieces that you photographed above at Long Island Coin (Chris Imperato's table). He likes to do show and tell and pulls the coins out and explains the history of the piece or backstory to it. He is a genuine great guy also.

Donato

Wow so close 👍. Yea I love to talk to Chris every time I go to the NH expo. He is vary smart and informative. Shows me awesome stuff every time 👍

ricko

Thanks for the show report and great pictures. Looks like a huge bourse room. Cheers, RickO