The Phoenix Show small report and newps

66Tbird

Smaller than I have seen it in all the years I've gone. New location to, in a nice hotel conference room. Made things a little growded, but not that bad. For the most part it was the same AZ dealers and a few out of state ones. I took the 1850 large cent in pcgs ms64rd to see if the market could be hot in this little show,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,it was not. It was the same old tune, "it's not good for the grade", "to bad for the little spot,, it's going to grow ya know. I can do 6 for it". Only one dealer liked it a lot and said so. He knew the series and had only seen a few as nice but couldn't pay what I could get for it elsewhere. He had such a cool demeanor with "try to be tough" buyers that I had to smile when they left. I bought the only coin of the show from him for his price. A low MS 1878 Trade $ with good eye appeal for a couple bills.

Then I found Mike Pezak, the hobonickelguy. Chatted with him for an hour. I've always wanted a few to show but couldn't swing the super high end stuff but did pickup a hand full of these type of examples.

Hobo Nickel with MS look

Hobo nickel with detailed hat

LucyBop

I so badly wanted to be there and see you, I'm sorry it didn't work out for me. Arizona is a easy drive for me, I'll make one of those shows, maybe the Tucson one.....

cointime

66Tbird,

I live here in Mesa. I didn't go to Phx. this year, but was able to go to the Mesa coin club's show at Centennial Hall. I like the atmosphere at the Mesa show much better. The Phx. shows in the past by Washington and Jefferson were always a pain to get to and most times (IMO) a let down. The thing I like most about the Mesa's coin club show is it is more collector driven with plenty of raw coins to snag Thanks for the report.

Ken

berylcoin

Nice report and cool hobos. I really like the style of the second one with the hat.

BC

FullHorn

I was there today and also spoke with Mike Pezak, a great guy , although hobo nickels are not my thing he has some impressive work
like the hummingbird one It was much more busy there today than on Thursday and I managed to spend more than I planned but I
think I did ok, I will post some pic's later.

66Tbird

The one thing that I fall for most every year is the "ANACS will be on sight to except coins for grading" or something to that writen on the flyer. I've only seen them there once a few years back, but I still keep bringing my cleaned seated half for the net grade. Maybe next year

FullHorn

the ANACS guy was there Thursday and even a guy from IGC? and both were just twiddling ther thumbs.