The 2023 Boeing Coin Show is this Saturday and Sunday!

Dave99B

JAN 21-22, 2023

Kent Commons
525 4th Ave. N.
Kent, WA

I missed this show last year, but I cleared my schedule this time.

This is a fun NW show! Lots of dealers, and some interesting Boeing artifacts as well.

Who's going this time?

Dave

seattlebecc.org/show/CoinShow.html

Namvet69

Too far west for me, awaiting your report with pics! Please. Good luck.

ricko

The Boeing Coin Show was always a really good show. I always went when I lived in Seattle. Show reports please.... Cheers, RickO

2windy2fish

I’ll be set up there with a single table! Great show!

carabonnair

Planning on Saturday.

SoCalBigMark

Made me think of Russ, R.I.P.

BStrauss3

Just for technical correction, it's the Boeing Employee's Coin Club (BECC), not a Boeing show.

Elmhurst

I’ll try to get down there on Saturday

Zoins

The 2023 medals are coming:

http://seattlebecc.org/medals/Medals.html

It's very cool to see the updates on progress on the website.

Does anyone know who strikes these?

BECC said:
2023 medals feature KC-46A

December 2022 update: Medals will be available in the very near future as I try to assemble three-piece set holders and put orders together. See you at the December meeting!!

October-November 2022 update: There has been a strong response to this year’s medals as the orders keep coming in. The medals are in the process of being struck. Pewter medals are in the process of being polished. We are hopeful that the medals will be available at the November meeting. Instead of going with a generic holder we approached Capital Plastics for custom holders again and are waiting for the quote and delivery. If things are favorable, we will go with the custom black holders.

September 2022 update: The 2023 KC-46 Refueling medal design will have its entire production run of silver medals at the standard one ounce. The club ordered enough material for 200 silver, and 100 each of pewter, bronze and copper, one ounce medals. The BECC has cut a check to the mint to purchase the needed silver. The price of silver was locked at $21.50. Silver medals will cost $40. There were minor increases in the price of bronze, pewter and copper medals due to increases in minting costs.

June 2022 update: Last year, supply chain issues and silver demand had a huge impact on our medals order. I was hoping that the "supply chain issues" were all going to be resolved for this year’s medal. The demand for silver is still high. Even though the price has dropped some, it’s not a lot compared to last year. I don’t know if all the foundries are back up and running or not. But after having BEX, the company that makes our medal, checking around with all the foundries I have some bad news … The 2023 KC-46 medal design will have its entire production run of silver medals at the standard one ounce. The 1.5 ounce planchet is non-standard and the demand for the standard one ounce is so high that no foundry will stop to convert their process for our limited run of planchets. So 2023 will have a one-ounce silver medal, which beats no silver medal at all.

May 2022 update: Boeing Licensing and Marketing has approved the design on the club’s 2023 medal. Two planes meant two different “groups” had to approve the design. Yes, there were changes that had to be made, but the good news is they provided a similar photo except the picture was taken from the other side of the plane. Not that they were really nitpicky, but it turns out the photo I was given by Boeing that I based the design off of was actually an artist concept of the plane before final design and there were subtle differences. Some tweaking was done and they liked how it turned out so it didn’t take too long the second time around for the collective okays and approval. A deposit for this medal has been mailed to the mint.

March/April 2022 update: Work has begun on the club’s 2023 medal!! The current 2023 design is ready to go for Boeing approval – hoping this goes smoothly as they supplied the picture the main design is based on.The 2023 design is going to depict a KC-46A refueling a F-15E fighter jet with another F-15E in the view.

Nysoto

@Zoins

"Who makes the medals? - Over the years, BECC medals have been made by a variety of mints, including Medallic Art Co., Metal Arts Co., Golden State Mint, Northwest Territorial Mint and BEX Engraving of Fullerton, Calif. BEX in the current minter of the medals. BECC medals are manufactured based on artwork supplied by the Boeing graphics department, or by a Boeing artist. The medals are struck using specially polished dies and medal blanks.

Former U.S. Mint sculptor-engraver Thomas D. Rogers, who is a PNNA honorary life member and designed the obverse of the PNNA’s 75th anniversary medal, also has sculpted the Boeing airplanes on some recent BECC medals when commissioned by BEX Engraving."

The Golden State Mint struck the medals for quite a few years, going back to the 1980's.

Eric Holcomb has been doing a fantastic job with the BECC and PNNA websites for over two decades.

Zoins

@Nysoto said:
@Zoins

"Who makes the medals? - Over the years, BECC medals have been made by a variety of mints, including Medallic Art Co., Metal Arts Co., Golden State Mint, Northwest Territorial Mint and BEX Engraving of Fullerton, Calif. BEX in the current minter of the medals. BECC medals are manufactured based on artwork supplied by the Boeing graphics department, or by a Boeing artist. The medals are struck using specially polished dies and medal blanks.

Former U.S. Mint sculptor-engraver Thomas D. Rogers, who is a PNNA honorary life member and designed the obverse of the PNNA’s 75th anniversary medal, also has sculpted the Boeing airplanes on some recent BECC medals when commissioned by BEX Engraving."

The Golden State Mint struck the medals for quite a few years, going back to the 1980's.

Eric Holcomb has been doing a fantastic job with the BECC and PNNA websites for over two decades.

Great info @Nysoto!

The PNNA 75th Anniversary medals look really nice!

Found some images on the PNNA website thanks to Eric!

https://pnna.org/catalog/convention32.html

yosclimber

I believe my uncle-in-law was a BECC member and always went to this show in the 80s and 90s.

I should be there for my first time on Saturday as I'm in the area.
May be a short visit as I mainly look for half dimes, but we'll see!

yosclimber

Brief show report:

The night before the show, I had fun making a spreadsheet of 136 seated half dime varieties to look for,
including the grades of some that I already own. This fit onto both sides of one sheet of paper.

It was starting to snow lightly when I left for the show, but I soldiered on and braved the 10 minute drive!
(It turned into the usual light rain).
The main parking lot was full, but someone was just leaving, so I took their spot.
I donned my N95 mask.

The room was larger than I expected, and there were at least 2 buyers at each dealer.
There were more world coin dealers than I expected, and a couple of ancients dealers with good inventories.

I started my search for (raw, unattributed) seated half dimes.
Most dealers didn't have them (as expected), but several did.
I bought 3 (of his 6) from Alan Franke of Pullman:

• 1843 V-1b EF (aka V-5A, has a great bold horizontal bisecting die crack),
• 1849 V-1 EF (the third overdate that doesn't get much publicity; has a rev crack at R that I saw on my stereo microscope at home, but had not noticed in photos when I made the 1849 attribution guide)
• 1854 V-13 VF with rev die cracks at A1 and F1 (variety now researched)

I bought 2 more from another dealer:

• 1848 V-6b VG (rev bisecting die crack)
• 1854-O V-2 G (rev bisecting die crack)

Much better finds than I expected!

I saw @2windy2fish's table - he was buying some coins from another guy, and had a seated half dime, but I didn't need it.

Headed back home after an enjoyable 2 hours at the show.

airplanenut

Im debating going tomorrow. It’s close and I like stopping by even if it’s quick, but I haven’t bought anything there in years and my schedule is really busy. Can anyone tell me it’s definitely not worth attending so I don’t have fomo if I don’t go?

Lakesammman

Shoot - can't make it - have fun!

Dave99B

@airplanenut said:
Im debating going tomorrow. It’s close and I like stopping by even if it’s quick, but I haven’t bought anything there in years and my schedule is really busy. Can anyone tell me it’s definitely not worth attending so I don’t have fomo if I don’t go?

Great show. You should go, Jeremy! West Coast Coins has a HUGE number of tables, with incredible coins. It was very busy yesterday. Wish I had more time to go today.

Dave

Swampboy

@2windy2fish said:
I’ll be set up there with a single table! Great show!

It was good to catch up with you Daryl.
See you at Spring PNNA.

airplanenut

@Dave99B said:

@airplanenut said:
Im debating going tomorrow. It’s close and I like stopping by even if it’s quick, but I haven’t bought anything there in years and my schedule is really busy. Can anyone tell me it’s definitely not worth attending so I don’t have fomo if I don’t go?

Great show. You should go, Jeremy! West Coast Coins has a HUGE number of tables, with incredible coins. It was very busy yesterday. Wish I had more time to go today.

Dave

When I don't finish my work today, I'm blaming you. Gah, I chose the wrong week to get famous.

yosclimber

Here are photos of a couple of my (half dime) finds from the show.

1843 V-1b - obv bisecting die crack

1849 V-1

(crop of the above, showing the under digits 846)

2windy2fish

@yosclimber! next time say hello! i had several half dimes in binders that you likely missed…not sure what you may be looking for!

yosclimber

I'll definitely say hi if you are at the 2/11 Kent show or the Spring PNNA.
The above are good examples of the coins I am looking for - raw seated half dimes with die cracks.
Most dealers don't have them, which is understandable.
(I don't buy ones as nice as your avatar coin, the 1838 V-14; that coin is the second finest known V-14).