My first cherrypicking attempt at the Houston Spring Coin Show

dunkleosteus430

I spent about an hour at this show today. There were a few new dealers, but lots of the same ones, too. There were lots of very young people (less than 12) running around and buying and selling coins for profits.
I only got one picture of a dealer's table. Quick question - for those of you who do show reports and stuff, do you ask a dealer to take a picture of their inventory? I usually do, but I'm just wondering if it's necessary. Anyways, this table had lots of fugio coppers/cents, and I thought it was cool, because when I was a bit younger I thought they were the rarest coins in the world. There's also a chain cent.
Other treasures that were at this show were a pattern V-nickel (I can't recall the date or Judd number but it was pretty cool,) a 1,000 oz silver bar, and a Liberty $20 in a regency holder. I failed to get any information or images of any of these.

I moved on to a table with trays of all kinds of coins, mostly junk silver. Here's what I got:

These first three were in a $1 tray with mostly buffalo nickels, liberty head nickels and Indian head cents.
1910 Great Britain Threepence, $1 (1.41 grams sterling silver, I thought this was a Maundy coin when I bought it but apparently they used the same threepence design on the circulating and Maundy coins. Oh well. Melt value is $1.05.)
1922 Great Britain Sixpence, $1 (2.8 grams .500 silver, so about $1.14 melt.)
1963 Australia Sixpence, $1 (also 2.8 grams .500 silver.)
1944-D Philippines Ten Centavos, $1 (2 grams .75 silver, so about $1.20 melt.)

The big ones were these two.
1853 Arrows & Rays Quarter, $6.50.
1838 Dime, $2.50.
They're both PO-01 to FR-02, but they're still worth a bit more than what I payed for them.

I didn't buy anything else this time because I didn't see anything I was looking for.

Jimnight

Nice!

RLSnapper

You did well on the no drapery dime.

Catbert

I always ask permission of a dealer to take a picture of his inventory. Wouldn’t think not to.

Walkerguy21D

The first photo has to be Pierre Fricke’s table.

johnny010

I always ask.

daltex

It might not be strictly necessary, but it is courteous and I can't think why you'd want to anger or upset someone you might want to business with in five minutes or five years.

logger7

Think of the amount of work a dealer goes through to assess every single coin that comes into his inventory. The challenges and expenses of coin shows, travel, set up and display. Must be overwhelming at times.

DoubleEagle59

You have to ask for permission, as you are not in a public place.

If you are in public, then you can photograph anything or anyone you wish.

ricko

@dunkleosteus430.... Thanks for the report. Good pictures.. and yes, proper to ask permission to photograph. Cheers, RickO

Kliao

Neat pickups. And yes, I would always ask, even if I wanted to take a picture of a single coin.

dunkleosteus430

I did ask to take a picture. Just wondering!
Also, yes, it was Pierre Fricke's table - really neat stuff over there, even though it's not what I collect.

DCAM

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