Coin Show Report from Parsippany, NJ

DaveG

This morning we had heavy rain and temperatures in the mid-30s, so attendance was somewhat down. In addition, a couple of the bigger dealers were missing, including Don Hosier and Tom Stapanski of Dart Coins, perhaps due to Long Beach. Even with the missing dealers, there was only one unoccupied table today. It was somewhat easier to get down the aisles this month, but it was still crowded until about 11:00 a.m., when the crowd started to thin out a bit.

I had the opportunity to meet MrKelso, who, frankly, looks too young to have grandchildren! (I didn't take the opportunity to chat much, as I had just gotten to the show and was itching to look around.) Unfortunately, TomB didn't make it, perhaps due to weather.

Once again, there was mostly the usual material today. However, I did notice a lot of San Diego commemoratives around, including a stack of about 15 MS-65s in older green-label PCGS slabs that one dealer had. I also saw a PR-63 1856 Flying Eagle cent, and a couple of patterns. Due to the comments on the Board about slabbed Ikes, I looked for them, but I only saw a handful, all of which were the 40% silver issues.

By the way, if anyone's interested, the GSNA is going to have the 3-day ANA grading course in conjunction with their annual show in May. Mary Sauvain is going to be one of the instructors. There was an article about it in this week's Coin World.

Also, Tom Hyland was displaying a bad check from "Hope Antiques" in Hope, NJ. Apparently they've stuck several dealers with them. It reinforces what a dealer told me several years ago, that he had never had a bad check from a collector, only from other dealers!

Despite Long Beach, today's show seemed to be almost as busy as usual. I saw almost all of the usual wholesalers and most dealers seemed to be making sales.

coinut1799

Dave, you are certainly right about the heavy rain. This was one of my "move" days, but I took an hour or two break to attend the show in Parsippany. I thought the floor was very active, especially around 11:00 when I was about to leave. Smaller shows are a lot of fun, even if you don't find much in the way of fresh material. It is always nice to spend a few minutes talking with Tom Hyland, and a lot of other dealers that I only know on a first name basis. It is a low pressure show and a good alternative to carrying a lot of heavy boxes around.

RYK

Dave G,

Thank you again for the report. Any nice branch mint gold out there today?

Robert

MrKelso

If there was any nice Gold around MrKelso Bought it all up

It was a pleasure to Meet Dave today at Parsippany. If this rain storm was snow we would be buried until next January. I did see a few nice pieces of Gold here and there but mostly i was buying AU Gold for the Grandson's Gold Dollar collection. I did pick up an AU piece from Tom and a few MS pieces from some other dealers. Lots and Lots of Morgans around at just about every table.

Another Good show but it wasn't that busy early on. It seemed to be picking up as i left at 10:20am



AU53? this is an 1851 one of several i picked up today this was the worst of the bunch but still not bad for the price.

DaveG

Robert,

Almost all of the gold I saw was post-1879.

The only O-mint gold I saw was a raw VF-XF 1844-O eagle that the dealer has had for over a year. (I already have one, otherwise I'd have taken pity on him and given the coin a nice home!)

However, I did see a Bechtler $5 (slabbed, but I don't remember either the grade or whether it was PCGS or NGC) and an NGC-60 1857 eagle. Tom Hyland has (and has had for several months) an 1859-S quarter eagle (NGC-40, I think). Doug Winter gives that coin a nice paragraph in his article on S-mint gold on his website, by the way. I also saw an 1873 (or 1873-S) half eagle in an NGC slab.

I don't recall seeing any other O-mint gold (not even with-motto) or any CC gold.

MOrganMuncher

the little gold dollars are so sweet but to costly for me to collect even in lower grades

MrKelso

MM
you cam still find AU pieces for under 175.00 if you go to the shows. These are small sweet pieces to collect.

MrKelso

Hey Dave are you going to White Plains next month?

DaveG

Probably, although the April show has been, at least for me, the weakest of the White Plains shows.

I always look forward to seeing New World Rarities and they frequently pass on the April show.

But, any coin show is a good coin show! (And, there are a lot of other dealers there, too)

airplanenut

The rain sucked... and I couldn't make it

But I was interviewed by the state's main newspaper during the show... guess there is a positive that I didn't make it

MrKelso

Maybe i will see you there Dave and we can spend some time hunting together.

Jay what news paper did you talk with the Record? The Ledger? When will you be in it?

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