ANA show report with pictures

Dscoin

I made the trip down to Chicago for my favorite show of the year. As many of you know, it looked like it was going to be a sell-out this year. I was excited to drive down on Monday, I was able to leave my home Monday morning. I arrived at the Hyatt a bit before 5:00PM, which was plenty of time before our reservations at Gibson's Steakhouse. Supper was fantastic, my wife had the half chicken and I had the fillet sliders. Our sides were the twice-baked potato and broccoli. If you have never been to Gibson's, their sides are big enough to share, with more than one person. I have never seen a potato that large, it was the size of a football, while not quite, but close!!
Anyhow, after supper I was able to do a few deals with some dealers that were in town. I sold one and bought one. Here is the one I acquired Monday night.

Tuesday morning we woke up, went for a walk on the treadmill, got a cup of coffee, and went to daily mass at the local Catholic church, St Beatrice. My wife had an appointment at a spa for the day so I ran her over there, got back, and was off to the show. I ponied up and got an early bird badge so I was able to get into the show at 11:00AM. The ANA makes every dealer and early bird get a badge. The line for photographs was with dealers and EB people alike, and every dealer in line was complaining because it was 20 people deep. Whatever, the ANA can't make everyone happy. I am sure the ANA was busy with photos for an hour on Monday and an hour on Tuesday, otherwise, I am assuming they were waiting around for much of the week. Anyhow, I had one coin spotted on a dealer's website that I knew I wanted to focus on. I went to that table first and found out they sold it to a different dealer on Monday. That was a huge bummer. So I went over to another dealer that I am friends with who also had a coin I knew I could use. We went back and forth for a while, working on a trade, and eventually came to a fair deal that we were both happy with. I picked up a coin at Tangible Investments that I prebought and now it was time to walk the floor. I wasn't focused on much, pre '33 gold with CAC, especially $5 Indians. I didn't find much I could use in the grades I was looking for. I also looked at a bunch of rattler holdered coins which were priced at unbelievable money. How often do you see an 1893-S MS65 in a rattler, let alone hold one!! I was able to talk to a few friends and make some new ones. General admission opened up at 1:00 and within 15 minutes the floor was ablaze. Here are some pics from the show:












By 4:00 I was shot, so I decided it was time to go pick my wife up from the spa. We went out for supper that night at BopNGrill which is a Korean fusion restaurant, they have amazing food!! I had bulkogi and my wife and I shared some kimchi fries. I am already looking forward to eating there again.

Wednesday morning was much of the same, coffee, breakfast, and church before making it over to the show. Wednesday was basically making sure I walked the whole floor looking at inventory and not missing anything I can use. I was able to make one deal on Wednesday. I went over to the Loews and do some lot viewing at Stacks for the auctions ending this week. The Fairmont collection of gold is just amazing. The April sale was legendary, we will all see how this sale ends this week. I am expecting much of the same with this set. My wife and I went out for lunch at 2:00 to Bob-O's hot dogs. We had some chicago beef sandwiches and chili cheese fries. Not the best, not the worst, just good food.

My wife and I had a date that evening out of town, so no more coin show. Thursday morning was again much of the same, arrived at the coin show at 9:30. I met up with some friends, I tried being part of a deal on 130ish rattler Peace dollars, but the dealer ended up selling them to the Home Shopping Network, I couldn't believe it....... I checked out the S.S. America's submarine that recovered the gold in it. This thing is crazy!!

I said my goodbyes to a few buddies at the show and left by 11:00AM for the long drive home. Here is what I walked away with:

A few observations from the show:
ASE were priced at $12 over spot.
Generic gold wasn't moving much.
There are plenty of people in the hobby younger than 40 and specifically 25. The future is looking good!
The buzz on the floor revolved around two things. RUMORS(no one could or would confirm anything) of CAC starting a grading company and the watch theft on Monday. If this wasn't the A or B topic you will have to let me know what was.
Old holders were priced high, and CAC stickers were priced higher yet.
Generic stuff that was nothing special was at decent prices but I didn't see much of it moving.
The dealers I talked to were very happy with how the show was going.
I made it home Thursday night and I am already looking into what it is going to be like next year in Pittsburg at the David L Lawrence center!
Thanks for the read. Sorry if the grammar isn't the best. I am not an English major, in fact, I am about as far from it as possible!!

Desert Moon

Great report. CAC going into grading........... Love the gold you picked up.

Best, SH

alaura22

Thanks for the report, great info
Great looking gold coins

justindan

Great report. And some neat finds.

Pedzola

Awesome pickups, congrats. I was working on a date set of $5 indians in 64 cac but changed direction and sold all but my favorite 1. Seeing your trio here makes me think about trying again.

spyglassdesign

Looks like fun. I may have to brave Chicago some day to go to that show.

Catbert

I bet you have a killer $5 gold set. If you have a registry set, please share!

Thanks for the report. Always interesting to see various points of view.

Dscoin

@Catbert said:
I bet you have a killer $5 gold set. If you have a registry set, please share!

Thanks for the report. Always interesting to see various points of view.

This is the link to the $5 Indian set. I don’t think I will ever be able to afford a 1929, and a 1916-S in a 64 will also probably be out of reach unless something changes so my 63 will have to do. I love the design, the $5 and $2.50 are the only ones in U.S. history with the incuse design.

https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/gold/indian-head-5-gold-major-sets/indian-head-5-gold-date-set-circulation-strikes-1908-1929/publishedset/266317

Walkerguy21D

Great report, write up, and new purchases.

But I must admit, I’m most impressed that you worked out on the treadmill, BEFORE spending all day walking around at a major show!

mavs2583

Nice write up. Do you remember which dealer had the MS63 Saints for $2025?

Dscoin

@mavs2583 said:
Nice write up. Do you remember which dealer had the MS63 Saints for $2025?

I would have to look at the bourse map again and I may be wrong what I tell you. The dealer was on the end and I could narrow it down to probably 4 guys. You could call one of those 4 and ask him if it was him or if he knows.
You want me to do that?

pursuitofliberty

Nice report, thanks for sharing!

The new Indians look lovely!!

messydesk

Nice report! Good to see you again. Good luck with the $5 Indian set.

mavs2583

@Dscoin said:

@mavs2583 said:
Nice write up. Do you remember which dealer had the MS63 Saints for $2025?

I would have to look at the bourse map again and I may be wrong what I tell you. The dealer was on the end and I could narrow it down to probably 4 guys. You could call one of those 4 and ask him if it was him or if he knows.
You want me to do that?

No need to do all that, I was just curious who was trying to get rid of their Saints. Thanks.

winesteven

@spyglassdesign said:
Looks like fun. I may have to brave Chicago some day to go to that show.

Perhaps consider Orlando in January at Winter FUN? It’s also a giant show!

Steve

291fifth

@spyglassdesign said:
Looks like fun. I may have to brave Chicago some day to go to that show.

It is not actually in Chicago. It is in Rosemont, a suburb that is just across the toll road from O'Hare airport. You can take the train into downtown Chicago if you want to see the sights there..

ricko

@Dscoin... Thanks for a great report and excellent pictures. Those $5 Indians are really nice - a favorite of mine. Cheers, RickO