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Time To Bring Back The NYC Coin Show?

WalkerloverWalkerlover Posts: 890 ✭✭✭✭
edited October 2, 2022 2:20PM in U.S. Coin Forum

I fondly remember going to the NYC shows in the 1960’s and marveling at all the displays from the various coin dealers of that era. Now I have a choice of only 1or 2 small shows from upstate NY or Long Island. Why no major coin shows in one of the greatest cities in America. It’s a pity. Any of you New York collectors feel as I do?

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  • pruebaspruebas Posts: 4,545 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Someone tried to revive it about 10 years ago. It turned out to be a one-off.

    Maybe venues are too expensive?

  • WalkerloverWalkerlover Posts: 890 ✭✭✭✭

    @pruebas said:
    Someone tried to revive it about 10 years ago. It turned out to be a one-off.

    Maybe venues are too expensive?

    Perhaps but there are many areas in the vicinity of NYC that could host a major coin show such as Long Island or Yonkers

  • CatbertCatbert Posts: 7,190 ✭✭✭✭✭

    NYC and NY taxes are high. Do they apply to coin sales? Then the union labor will be expensive for the show organizer. These may be reasons enough to not revisit.

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  • goldengolden Posts: 9,638 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Too expensive for a venue and everything else.

  • djmdjm Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There is the New York International Numismatic Convention on Jan 12.

  • breakdownbreakdown Posts: 2,140 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Parsippany is a good local option.

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  • WalkerloverWalkerlover Posts: 890 ✭✭✭✭

    @djm said:
    There is the New York International Numismatic Convention on Jan 12.

    I know but that’s for foreign coins

  • 2ndCharter2ndCharter Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I’m a native New Yorker with lots of fond memories, but…….I’ll never go back

    Me, too.

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  • coinbufcoinbuf Posts: 11,339 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've never been to NYC, and I have no desire to ever go there. As to the op's question why not start one up yourself?

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  • ElmerFusterpuckElmerFusterpuck Posts: 4,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow. The OP asks a simple NYC coin show question and part of the thread devolves into the equivalent of Pizza Rat.

  • NicNic Posts: 3,377 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I miss the NYC shows. And perhaps more so the auctions that could stand alone. Agree with everything CRO.

  • TomBTomB Posts: 21,293 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I used to live in NYC and it has many of the same problems that other large metropolitan areas have as well as many not-so-large areas have. I also recall the 2002 ANA and it wasn't a thrill to have the bourse broken up in the manner that it was. Even if there are no more shows in NYC, it isn't like the folks in the area are coin show deprived.

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  • Stingray63Stingray63 Posts: 299 ✭✭✭

    I'm smack in between NYC & Phila and been wondering why there are no big shows here. We have a number of convention centers here. It leaves me with the local, monthly Burlington, Old Bridge, Colts Neck shows and annual Ocean County Coin Club show. Won't go to Parsippany after other vendors informed a vendor there was robbed of his entire material and they don't go anymore due to troubles in that area. Still there is the Princeton area which would be ideal and close to the Turnpike (I-95), I-295, I-195, and Rt 1.

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  • TomBTomB Posts: 21,293 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't have the details of the Parsippany event that you are writing about, but the show is held in the PAL (Police Athletic League) building and always had a noticeable LEO presence. It is also right near multiple major highway arteries in NJ and is easy-in and easy-out, which would mean that as long as you don't stop for food, groceries, gas or whatever on the way home that you should be as safe as anywhere else.

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  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,798 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not for me. I used to enjoy the city. Now, I have better things to do.

  • MasonGMasonG Posts: 6,261 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Walkerlover said:
    Why no major coin shows in one of the greatest cities in America.

    If someone thought they could run a successful show there, I'm pretty sure they'd try.

  • ElmhurstElmhurst Posts: 784 ✭✭✭

    Despite all the issues, I love the city. I remember going for the first time, and coming out of the subway at 8 and 34, it was like being in a different world. So much for a kid who grew up in the sticks between Seattle and Canada :-)

  • breakdownbreakdown Posts: 2,140 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CoinRaritiesOnline said:
    I think the issue has been that there are no suitable, affordable venues to host a show in the city.

    As for the city itself, my wife and I have been in NYC 7 times this year and had a great time - can't beat the museums, Broadway, the restaurants, the night life, etc. , but I guess cities are not for everyone.

    I actually remember talking to you, John, at the NYC event at the Milennium a number of years ago. Last real coin show I remember in the city. Logistics, transportation, cost of hotels and sales tax conspire against a coin show in the city.

    NYC is not for everyone - my brother still won't step foot in it. But I have worked there for 30 years and have never regretted it (well maybe the commuting). But I can see and appreciate spectacular architecture around every corner as well as parks with sculptures by the likes of St. Gaudens and Fraser every day.

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  • winestevenwinesteven Posts: 4,544 ✭✭✭✭✭

    In addition to the costs as many above have mentioned, I would not feel safe these days carrying rare coins to and from the venue.

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  • CommemDudeCommemDude Posts: 2,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't think most people will find it a desirable place to visit anymore. I enjoyed the 2002 ANA but it's not the same now.

    I regretfully sold a second home in Manhattan after 16 years of enjoying the city, which is now returning to its 1980's character-- crime, homelessness, dirt, rats, with panhandlers everywhere; prices soaring at restaurants and the city feverishly working on schemes to raise taxes on commuters and people with second homes there.

    Marriott in Times Square has a two-bed room for 4 nights for $ 3,512. Those expenses might be hard to recoup for many dealers.

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  • ConnecticoinConnecticoin Posts: 12,889 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Connecticut is tax friendly to coins - perhaps try a regional show in the Stamford area again if a suitable venue can be found.

  • skier07skier07 Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @winesteven said:
    In addition to the costs as many above have mentioned, I would not feel safe these days carrying rare coins to and from the venue.

    I wasn’t thrilled about carrying rare coins in Long Beach last week.

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