Show Report: Parsippany, NJ (10/3)
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As you may have seen from other posts this week, I went to the Parsippany show today, which is a monthly show with around 80 dealers. Today I got there at 8:30 (half an hour early, but that's no problem... you can get in then). My main focus was still to get a nice MS large cent, and some toned stuff on the side. I was also looking for a few botanical garden commems for a board member.
While there was a lot of nice material, nothing really spoke to me. The few MS large cents were drab, and the one that I saw that fit my criteria of nice and glossy was a better variety (which I don't care about) and 3-4x what I wanted to pay... dang! The only other coin that really even piqued my interest was an NGC MS62 standing liberty quarter--it was about as clean as a 64, but obviously very dipped and not original, hence the grade... yet it was still priced very high--I think above 63 money. So another pass.
What the day was good for, though, was talking with people. NJCoinCrank (Bill) was allowing the viewing of some inventory, and DaveG, TomB, Oreville, John Wihlborg, and myself were enjoying looking through it and talking (Bustman had already left by this time). Bill's coins were absolutely gorgeous and simply a pleasure to look at, although they were all out of my range. At one point, while at his table, someone came up and pulled one of the boxes of his coins (an Intercept shield 2 row box, which holds some 60+ slabs...BIG box) just a tad. Bill showed that he's really paying attention to everything going on, and pretty much grabbed the box back, and then when asked, wouldn't show the coins--more than rightfully so. So two things learned from that: 1- Always be aware of everything happening at a show. 2- If you want to see something, ASK.
Later in the show, Tom, Dave, John, and I did some show-and-tell (Dave couldn't stay through the entire show). Tom showed some unbelieveably wild mint-set toned roosies and washingtons, along with some gorgeous circulated type, such as two 1795 dollars, a 1796 quarter in textbook perfect F12, a 1794 half dollar, as well as some others. He also showed three beautiful toned proof Indians. GORGEOUS!
John showed off some of his commems and buffalo nickels--some white, some toned, but all just flat-out beautiful. If the effort he put into his buff and commem sets were put into any set, I'm sure he could convince anyone to collect any type of coin. As always, it was more than just a pleasure to see what he had brought.
In the end, I ended up with two toned jefferson nickels (raw) from Tom, but bought nothing else at the show. It figures that since I actually had some real money to spend, I managed to spend almost nothing. Regardless, the time I was able to spend talking and showing-and-telling was more than worth going to the show. All-in-all, a great experience, just without what I was looking for. Oh, well, there's always next month
Jeremy
While there was a lot of nice material, nothing really spoke to me. The few MS large cents were drab, and the one that I saw that fit my criteria of nice and glossy was a better variety (which I don't care about) and 3-4x what I wanted to pay... dang! The only other coin that really even piqued my interest was an NGC MS62 standing liberty quarter--it was about as clean as a 64, but obviously very dipped and not original, hence the grade... yet it was still priced very high--I think above 63 money. So another pass.
What the day was good for, though, was talking with people. NJCoinCrank (Bill) was allowing the viewing of some inventory, and DaveG, TomB, Oreville, John Wihlborg, and myself were enjoying looking through it and talking (Bustman had already left by this time). Bill's coins were absolutely gorgeous and simply a pleasure to look at, although they were all out of my range. At one point, while at his table, someone came up and pulled one of the boxes of his coins (an Intercept shield 2 row box, which holds some 60+ slabs...BIG box) just a tad. Bill showed that he's really paying attention to everything going on, and pretty much grabbed the box back, and then when asked, wouldn't show the coins--more than rightfully so. So two things learned from that: 1- Always be aware of everything happening at a show. 2- If you want to see something, ASK.
Later in the show, Tom, Dave, John, and I did some show-and-tell (Dave couldn't stay through the entire show). Tom showed some unbelieveably wild mint-set toned roosies and washingtons, along with some gorgeous circulated type, such as two 1795 dollars, a 1796 quarter in textbook perfect F12, a 1794 half dollar, as well as some others. He also showed three beautiful toned proof Indians. GORGEOUS!
John showed off some of his commems and buffalo nickels--some white, some toned, but all just flat-out beautiful. If the effort he put into his buff and commem sets were put into any set, I'm sure he could convince anyone to collect any type of coin. As always, it was more than just a pleasure to see what he had brought.
In the end, I ended up with two toned jefferson nickels (raw) from Tom, but bought nothing else at the show. It figures that since I actually had some real money to spend, I managed to spend almost nothing. Regardless, the time I was able to spend talking and showing-and-telling was more than worth going to the show. All-in-all, a great experience, just without what I was looking for. Oh, well, there's always next month
Jeremy
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David
<< <i>It figures that since I actually had some real money to spend, I managed to spend almost nothing. >>
That always seems to be the way!
Great transactions with oih82w8, JasonGaming, Moose1913.
However, unlike my usual report, I can't really tell you what was there, because I spent almost all my time today talking to njcoincrank, TomB, Airplanenut and Wihlborg. Since Tom didn't have a table, we congregated at njcoincrank's table, who took the invasion with very good grace. He let us (actually Tom, but we looked over Tom's shoulders) look through boxes of jaw-droppingly amazing coins. All I can say is: "OOOH!" "AHHH!" "I didn't know coins like this existed", etc.
After a bit, we went out to the hallway to have some show-and-tell time. Tom showed some of his recent purchases, all which featured really impressive natural surfaces and appropriately medium- and dark-gray toning (for the silver coins, that is). I have to say, once you've seen really original surfaces, you won't be satisfied by "messed-with" (dipped, soap-and-water, lightened with baking soda, etc.) coins again.
I have to say that I was really amazed at the ill-mannered fool who grabbed at njcoincrank's box. Who does that without asking first? I was just dumbfounded! I thought the [expletive deleted] was lucky not to have lost some fingers, which, given the value of what was in the box, would have been perfectly justified.
Fun moment of today: In my few minutes of quickly walking the floor, I bought my first sample slab - it's an NGC-6.2 on Cameron's website, (which is an MS-64 1943-P nickel). I took the coin over to TomB and said "Oh, I've got something to show you." He got an interested look on his face - and then screamed in agony when I produced the sample slab! (heh, heh, heh!) I thought I could hear him say "Oh, No, Cameron!" but it was hard to tell.
All-in-all, it was a really fun time!
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