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What "equipment" do YOU bring to coin shows?

SethChandlerSethChandler Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭✭
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Loupes, CW Trends, want lists........what do YOU bring????

Seth
Collecting since 1976.

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    kieferscoinskieferscoins Posts: 10,017 ✭
    A wad of cash and my eyes. I bring a 7x loupe in my backpack, but rarely use it. I bring a backpack for anypaperwork and an empty slab box to put the coins in.

    Cameron Kiefer
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    RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Money and a loupe.

    Russ, NCNE

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    ElcontadorElcontador Posts: 7,740 ✭✭✭✭✭
    5 power glass, current grey & bluesheets & a wantlist that incorporates current grey & bluesheet pricing. For early material, I'll bring a specific book re the specific type of coin, ie; Draped Bust Dime.
    "Vou invadir o Nordeste,
    "Seu cabra da peste,
    "Sou Mangueira......."
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    LAWMANLAWMAN Posts: 1,274 ✭✭
    Good shoes, Trends, greysheets, my collection inventory book, magnification, a pocket full of dough, and pairs of good eyes and ears. I learn a lot from listening to others around me.
    DSW
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    DeadhorseDeadhorse Posts: 3,720 ✭
    1) Cash

    2) 2 loupes, 5X and 10X

    3) CW Trends and Graysheet

    4) Prepared list of notes and want list

    5) Coins I want to sell/trade

    6) Comfortable shoes!
    "Lenin is certainly right. There is no subtler or more severe means of overturning the existing basis of society(destroy capitalism) than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
    John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
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    stmanstman Posts: 11,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Grey and Bluesheets, that never do me any good once I find a coin I like.
    5X slide glass, and 10X loupe.
    Some cash.
    A few checks.

    Patience... see my sig line.
    Please... Save The Stories, Just Answer My Questions, And Tell Me How Much!!!!!
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    nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Loupe mainly. Sometimes greysheet.
    Blog and Pics
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    krankykranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭
    Cash, checkbook, 3x/6x loupe, 10x loupe, 16x loupe, Greysheets, Cherrypicker's guide, want list, CW trends.

    New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.

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    jonesyjonesy Posts: 5,031
    Never been to a show. But to the Coin Shop I take my 10X loupe and money!!
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    paigowjohnnypaigowjohnny Posts: 4,257 ✭
    10x loupe, 5x glass, trends, a greysheet if I have one, ANA grading guide, my inventory/want list, and my checkbook.
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    dollardudedollardude Posts: 1,263
    1. Notebook with 2x2 holders of coins I want to trade plus empty slots for what I want to buy.
    2. PCGS box for slabs to trade and buy.
    3. Price list.
    4. Want list.
    5. 5x pocket magnifier (loupes too small for me).
    6. Money.
    7. Shopping bag to keep from attracting too much attention.
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    nuckleheadnucklehead Posts: 1,500 ✭
    A briefcase with my ledger,loupes,checkbook (almost useless at the Long Beach show) Bill Fivez counterfeit detection guide and a Red Book along with pepper spray.
    Friends are Gods way of apologizing for your relatives.
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    elwoodelwood Posts: 2,414 ✭
    my Glock
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    ms70ms70 Posts: 13,958 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A "day planner" type case that can hold what I buy and built in calculator. Inside of it:

    Checkbook
    10X loupe
    Want list
    Trends price guides (only if there's something specific I'm after)

    And most importantly-

    Pens and a pad!

    I have to bring a pad to write on because as I shop around I can never remember where the
    tables are that I want to go back to!

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    ms70ms70 Posts: 13,958 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>my Glock >>



    Thanks for reminding me! That too but it's not inside the dayplanner! image
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    Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    Cash
    Loupe
    Check book
    small Samsonite suitcase on a cart that holds my notes on:
    half cents
    Large cents
    half dimes
    capped bust dimes
    Bust halves
    Jules Reivers guide for bust quarters
    An Index of English conder token inscriptions
    Notes on 18th century tokens by Waters
    Dalton & Hamer
    Nobles Sale catalog of British tokens
    Superior catalog of the Jack Robinson Large cent and half cent collectons
    My working copy of the Slab Book
    calipers
    My fathers wantlist for his collection.
    French Emergency tokens 1914 - 22 by Lamb
    German Municipal notgeld tokens by Lamb
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    NicNic Posts: 3,438 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A 5x glass and checkbook. Elwood... what do you do with the barrel when you fly? K

    My 1866 Philly Mint Set

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    itsnotjustmeitsnotjustme Posts: 8,788 ✭✭✭
    Greysheet
    Loupe
    Cash
    Coins I want to sell
    Want list
    Give Blood (Red Bags) & Platelets (Yellow Bags)!
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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,153 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Holey Coin Vest, the Holey Gold Hat, and a pocketful of cash. I should bring a loupe but always seem to forget it (often to my regret, later...)

    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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    dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Loupe, Trends, checkbook, printouts of what I've got. Checklist of stuff I want to find/do.

    Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...



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    FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977 ✭
    halogen flashlight. show lighting s*cks.
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    BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    My electron microscope, 250,000 dollars in cash, three armed guards, a reservation for lunch

    and a dozen jelly donuts. Of course.,..................................................I do tend to exagerat a bit.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
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    TootawlTootawl Posts: 5,877 ✭✭✭


    << <i>My electron microscope, 250,000 dollars in cash, three armed guards, a reservation for lunch

    and a dozen jelly donuts. Of course.,..................................................I do tend to exagerat a bit. >>



    Do you mean you only bring a half dozen donuts and 1 armed guard??image
    PCGS Currency: HOF 2013, Best Low Ball Set 2009-2014, 2016, 2018. Appreciation Award 2015, Best Showcase 2018, Numerous others.
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    TootawlTootawl Posts: 5,877 ✭✭✭
    I bring a pocket magnifing glass and probably one of the very few people who bring a PDA (a Compaq Ipaq to be precise) with me. I download the CoinWorld Trends and have my want list on it.
    PCGS Currency: HOF 2013, Best Low Ball Set 2009-2014, 2016, 2018. Appreciation Award 2015, Best Showcase 2018, Numerous others.
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    MICHAELDIXONMICHAELDIXON Posts: 6,740 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My most important "equipment" when I'm doing a show is a 9mm Baretta and a 16 gauge snakecharmer!
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    BladeBlade Posts: 1,744 ✭
    Conder - You forgot the 2 roadies you need to carry all that stuff. That is funny.

    I bring - shoulder bag with... 5X loupe, 20X loupe for teeny stuff, greysheet, inventory list, want list, coins to show or sell.

    Oh yeah, my inventory is on a Dell Axim PDA, along with pics of my best coins.
    Tom

    NOTE: No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

    Type collector since 1981
    Current focus 1855 date type set
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    dollardudedollardude Posts: 1,263
    <<My most important "equipment" when I'm doing a show is a 9mm Baretta and a 16 gauge snakecharmer!>>

    I always wondered about this but was afraid to ask, but I'll do it anyway. How many folks pack a weapon?
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    jtwaxjtwax Posts: 241
    My want list is too big so I bring a list of what I already have.

    16x loupe, cash, checks, credit cards, and my rolex (just in case).
    Regards,

    J. Taylor
    CONECA Member
    FSNC Member

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    jtwaxjtwax Posts: 241
    Dollardude,

    Pack 2 matching 9mm's.
    Regards,

    J. Taylor
    CONECA Member
    FSNC Member

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    ScarsdaleCoinScarsdaleCoin Posts: 5,441 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A sawed off shotgun and a s/w 357
    Jon Lerner - Scarsdale Coin - www.CoinHelp.com
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    BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    If we told you if we were packing,

    then the mystery of it all would be gone.
    There once was a place called
    Camelotimage
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    TrimeTrime Posts: 1,863 ✭✭✭
    Laptop with mysterious contents
    2 loupes ( I usually misplace one)
    One or two catalogues if attending auctions
    Greysheet.
    Significant Auction Records.
    Checkbook.
    Hope I will find something special.
    Fear I will buy more than I can afford.
    Trime

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