Las Vegas show this weekend??

danarchy

Is there,isn't there? if so where

thanks


dan

DRG

I believe it is at the Sahara Hotel. It is either there or the Riviera. Anybody know for sure?

howie08

David :
It's at the Sahara.
Howie

DRG

I live here in Vegas and figured I would go check it out. Do you know any other details?

barrytrot

Any info on this? I wouldn't mind dropping by for a few minutes.

berylcoin

From CoinWorld: Aug. 9-11, Sahara Hotel & Casino, 2535 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Sat. 10 AM - 6 PM, Sun. 10 AM - 5 PM, approximately 25 tables.

BC

MastaHanky

Oops, no wonder I couldn't find it, I went to Flamingo. haha, guess I should have double-checked before I took off.

barrytrot

Masta,

You didn't miss much. Not a ton of variety. Not a ton of booths. Good water though!

It was interesting none-the-less. I didn't see anything that fit into my sets so I didn't buy anything.

What was surprising, or maybe not, was that 95% of the slabs were NON-PCGS. Is this the actual phyisical ratio in real life? I doubt it. I was thinking that they might have done it because then they can try to make a quick sale of an MS70 that would only be an MS65-PCGS.

However, there was one guy with 99% PCGS. His only other was a set of 5 PCI Buffalo commem. Natrually two of those were PR70

Steve27

barrytrot,

It was almost the reverse situation at the NY ANA convention. About 80-90 percent of the slabs were either PCGS or NGC, the remainder were PCI and ICG. None were from that other company.

IrishMike

It's not uncommon at the smaller shows to see mostly non-PCGS slabbed coins, lots of ANACS, PCI etc. Two reasons for this I think, after listening to dealers complain about the poor customer service they receive at PCGS (they were astounded when I told them PCGS had an 80,000 slab month) and many of them have been using ANACS for years, so their clients are more used to them. Also it's cheaper to use PCI & ANACS for them.

mnmcoin

barrytrot

lol...that jerk with all the PCGS coins was me, and guess what, I took those PCI coins in trade at that show. Oh by the way, I also have five NGC coins, but sold one at the show...two of them were toned (sold one of the toned) and the other are better proof cameo coins.

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