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Let's think ahead... the NY International Show in January...

airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,149 ✭✭✭✭✭
Does anyone here know if they are going to go? I'm working to convince my parents... whether they will let me take the train alone, or if they will go, too... oooooh I wanna go to a big show!!!

If you go, how will you get there? Anyone taking NJ Transit on the Dover line?

Jeremy

PS- I wanna take my ASE for PCGS to see, maybe image
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  • MrKelsoMrKelso Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭
    Give me all the particulars about this show. Time date place who what where when why and how, I will be back to work by then and good old NY is my stompin grounds. I would drive in and park da caar nearby. You could ride with me but you would have to have mom and dad tag along or sign an addvidavit in front of a notery republican that if you get lost i get to keep any coins you may have bought and gave me to hold. Plus you would have to help watch my Grandson if he comes with me, It's ok i shortened the chain and added another pick proof lock so he can't escape this time. image


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  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,149 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sorry...

    January 16-19 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.
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  • MrKelsoMrKelso Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭
    Hmmmm the Waldorf.


    "The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares the LORD GOD Almighty."
  • Well, it is a nice walk from Penn Station to the Waldorf in a high traffic area if you are going to take the Morris/Essex line. I'm assuming if your getting on around Summit/Millburn/S Orange? If so it isn't that expense for a round trip.
    Jared
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  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,149 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Jared- Summit... born and raised... only about 1-2 miles from my house is the station image $8.75 round trip, I believe... to South Orange it is like $2.75 (there is a dealer I like there... my grandparents live right near there, so my grandfather is taking me this weekend when I stay with them, saving me the fare image)

    Jeremy
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  • Summit, you always used to beat us in state football playoff games when I was in High School (well the two times we played you). What exaclty is a Hilltopper besides a cute name related to the name of your town? I substituted at Columbia High in S. Orange when I was home during college breaks. What is the name of the store you go to?
    Jared
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  • MrKelsoMrKelso Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Jared- Summit... born and raised... only about 1-2 miles from my house is the station image $8.75 round trip, I believe... to South Orange it is like $2.75 (there is a dealer I like there... my grandparents live right near there, so my grandfather is taking me this weekend when I stay with them, saving me the fare image)

    Jeremy >>



    Lets all plan a meeting spot then.


    "The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares the LORD GOD Almighty."
  • Airplanenut,

    Are you sure PCGS will be there? Yes this is a large show but it is almost exclusively non-US and ancient coins. (By US coin show standards it would be considered medium to large sized.) There is a very good chance PCGS will not be there. None of the services come to the Chicago International Show which is just a little smaller than the New York International.

    I wouldn't mind going to the NYI but It is probably moving in the same direction as the Chicago show, more and more dealers doing ancients exclusively and most of the other non-US coins are all in the $500 and up catagory. When I started doing Chicago it was about 25% ancients and the rest was all non-US from minors to the high end stuff. By last year it was up to about 60 - 70% ancients and most all of the Non-US was high end crowns and gold with a little high value minor coinage. Normally I spend all three days at the show but this time I'd seen every thing of interest and left Saturday afternoon before the show closed. (Won't be there this year as it conflicts with EAC in Cincinnati.)
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,149 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Conder- I posted this right after I got the PCGS eCollector... it said PCGS would be there image

    Jared- Summit, in the Revolutionary years up to 1899 was called Turkey Hill, as it is located at the peak of the 2nd Watchung Mountain Range, hence the new name Summit... the hilltopper is nothing but someone at the top of the hill image Our current mascot is the all-mighty... the MOUNTAIN GOAT! image We all like the goat image

    In S. Orange I go to Ye Olde Curiosite Shoppe... in Summit I go to Horizon Rare Coin Galleries.

    Jeremy
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  • DaveGDaveG Posts: 3,535
    I've been going to the NY Intl since 1995. As Conder101 says, this is a medium show by US standards (about 80 dealers), but it offers serious darkside "caviar". Usually, there are only two dealers who have US material (Jonathan Kern and Arnold Saslow of West Orange), but it's certainly the place to go in the NYC area to see some amazing stuff: British hammered gold, uncirculated pillar dollars from four or five mints, 19th century British proof sets, Carthaginian staters, Byzantine solidi (or Bezants to us "Ivanhoe" fans), English 17th century five guinea pieces, Athenian Owls, etc.

    It's also a great place to go if you want some semi-bullion XF/AU European gold: 100 Franc and 50 Franc pieces, 20 Mark pieces, Swedish gold, Norwegian gold, Dutch gold, etc. It's decently priced, but not cheap by any means.

    It's a great place to meet foreign dealers - dealers come from the UK, Switzerland, Germany, South America, etc.

    Last year was the first year the show was at the Waldorf - it used to be in the mezzanine of the WTC. I though last year's arrangement was less than optimal as the show was spread among three or so rooms and the aisles were way too narrow. However, last year's show was arranged hurredly, so perhaps this year's will be in a better venue.

    I don't recall if PCGS was there last year, but they were never there in the previous six years. As you know, world collectors don't slab and British dealers certainly don't slab.

    As you can imagine, with travel costs being what they are, the foreign dealers generally bring their big ticket items and the US dealers generally bring expensive material as well.

    Last spring, I met one US dealer in world coins who said they preferred the Chicago Intl show to the NY Intl because they thought New York focused too much on big ticket items.

    If you're in the area and interested in world or ancient coins, you should go because you'll see coins you won't see anywhere else (except perhaps the Chicago Intl.).

    Check out the Southern Gold Society

  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,149 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dave,

    Arnie Saslow is in South Orange, not West... I'm going to his shop on Saturday image Really nice, knowledgeable guy image

    Jeremy
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