WI Largest Annual Coin Show (SSCC 2022 - Milwaukee), anyone going? REPORT with PHOTOS.

pcgscacgold

I have not seen a thread on this show as of yet. Checking to see if anyone is going to attend the Milwaukee, WI show either today or tomorrow. It was once a 3 day show but most dealers made it a 2 day show by leaving early.

Yes @ricko , I will do my best to document what I find. The lighting is usually a little better at this venue then other area shows. A lot more dealers as well.

ricko

@pcgscacgold .... Thank you, much appreciated. Cheers, RickO

pcgscacgold

The show was smaller than it has been in the past.

It is always amazing seeing Tom Reynolds display of early copper. Watching him set up by taking raw $10,000-$20,000 coins out of envelopes to put into the display cases is crazy. I often wonder why he doesn't get all of those slabbed. I assume he only puts out a small part of his inventory. You can see how focused he is when there was just one gold coin in 6-7 display cases (maybe I missed something but that is all I saw).

Saw this display with raw 2021 Morgans for $125.

A complete set of Silver Eagles for $2100

One dealer must like to cut open proof sets. He had signs everywhere that he is buying proof sets. Then had stacks of graded sets of coins for sale.

Then for the silver buyers, a few photos of items for sale. I did not see too many people buying silver. There were a lot of people asking about gold. Very few dealers had gold on display.

A few people were buying raw coins. Low grade stuff. I saw a few people selling raw coins to dealers. Mostly melt items. There were a lot less people sitting at dealers tables going through 3 ring binders. Maybe it will pick up for them later today or Saturday.

Very little slabbed gold available in the room. Harbor Coins out of the Chicago area had the largest selection of graded gold. Unfortunately nothing higher than MS64+CAC. I asked a couple dealers if they had any higher grade gold for sale. Neither had brought any. They said the Milwaukee market is not great for that type of thing.

kaz

Thanks for taking the time to post your report and photos!

fishteeth

I went to the show this morning. Had a line waiting to get in at 11. Didn't realize there was an early bird for this show.
Show seemed busy but lacked any real buzz. Not much cool to drool over.
Only thing that made the trip worthwhile was the 45 min of uninterrupted time I had to talk with Tom Reynolds about coins. Usually at a bigger show like central states he has people 2 or 3 deep talking with him. Unfortunately he didn't have a flowing hair large cent that fit my type set. They were a little too nice
I really did not see much silver selling. The dealers I know said that their gold was picked over during early bird. So sounds like gold was moving if priced right. I saw 90% as cheap as 22x for walking liberty halves and merc dimes
Overall happy I went today while it was 45 and rain and not tomorrow when it sounds like milwaukee will get its only day of spring. It has been and awful spring here and 75 tomorrow is going to feel glorius

BLUEJAYWAY

Judging by the photos there is no coin shortage there.

pcgscacgold

@BLUEJAYWAY said:
Judging by the photos there is no coin shortage there.

Correct and I didn't even bother to photograph the 30+ tables of 3-Ring binders full of raw coins. I see the same dealers at every area show. It has to be a lot of work to load and unload so many binders. I often wonder how many 1980-2020 coins actually get sold at each show.

WAYNEAS

Thanks for your show report and the accompanying pictures.
Wayne

pcgscacgold

@WAYNEAS said:
Thanks for your show report and the accompanying pictures.
Wayne

You are welcome. I took more but the spot lights ruined a few. I was surprised to see the 2021 Morgans for $125. Those have fallen in price in less than a year. I may pick them up if they continue down to $100.