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My Fall 2021 Long Beach report

ElmerFusterpuckElmerFusterpuck Posts: 4,748 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Finally have some time to compose a show report - these views are mine and may not reflect what others experienced. We (me and my wife) made plans and booked tickets to the show when Southwest had its 50th birthday sale going, so we flew for pretty cheap! We also had seen the new Covid-19 rules for attending the show, they didn't bother us at all. Just being able to go out of state and actually have a vacation was pretty awesome, we could handle some inconveniences along the way. Like most of my coin show excursions, this trip was booked with the show and other activities in mind. This time it was to visit family and go on some long overdue Long Beach walks. We also found some neat small local restaurants in Long Beach, plus a very friendly liquor store/bar on Ocean Boulevard called Hi-Lo, where we would sip on various libations.

Now on to the show. I attended part of the day on Thursday and the same for Friday. I didn't come with an agenda or a must have coin on my list. It was all about looking around and seeing what could become part of my collection, along with being at my first large coin show since Winter FUN 2020. So it was just walking row by row, table by table to see if anything jumped out of the case at me. My wife was very helpful for finding toned coins and old coin albums for the bookshelf collection.

I did meet up with a few folks from the Instagram world and ended up buying a nice coin from one of the people I've bought from before. Like I've mentioned before, the hobby is alive and well in other platforms besides shows and online forums. On the bourse floor there was plenty to look at, including the Husak collection of large cents from 1793 thru 1814 and the "Hawaii 5-0" 1913 nickel. As for sale items, there was plenty as well from half cents to gold. I also noticed far more sports card dealers, probably due to their popularity at this time. The traffic for the days I was there was very steady and the attendance looked good, especially on Thursday. Most of the dealers I talked to said they were having a good show and even the ones that weren't were at least getting a lot of lookers. Note to some of those dealers: you may get more sales and interest by at least pretending there were people at your table. Not too many people are drawn to sour, salty or bitter indifference.

Overall I had a great show and a fun trip! Hope to return here again at a future show.
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Now for the coins, they are a bit varied in scope:

These are the raw coins I got. Thought the 1921 dime was great for the Library of Coins album, the 1942 Bolivia coin had cool color, and really wanted a W quarter that had the San Antonio missions on it. Also got an off center from Fred Weinberg, it came out of a bag of 1941 cents, so it's probably safe to say it's a 1941 too.





Found two more type coins for my online 7070, and 1859 cent in MS-63 and an 1883 no cents nickel in MS-62:



Got this killer 1813 half as an upgrade. It grades AU-50 with a green CAC stick. The toning is pretty flashy, have an extra photo to show it more into the light.



And now this nice 1880-S toned Morgan graded MS-63. It's pretty close to proof-like and has tons of flash.




An awesome toned Mexican 20 Centavos graded MS-66 RB.


And finally, this neat 1974 British Virgin Islands dollar, graded MS-67.


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