Silver Dollar Show Report, St. Louis, Oct. 9, 2004
RYK
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Today I visited the Silver Dollar Show from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM. When I arrived, I found that the bourse was about two-thirds occupied, and there was a lot of packing up going on.
I made a beeline for the Broken CC-Northern Nevada table and visited Aaron and Allen, two very pleasant guys from Carson City. I sold two coins to them, and as always, they treated me very fairly. I also saw two rare CC gold coins at their table, a 70-CC $5 VF-30 and a 70-CC $10 XF-40. They were both nice, circulated, original problem-free coins which would look good in my collection...some day.
Then, I was off to visit old friends Dennis and James (of Jade and EarlyUS Coins). These are two of the nicest guys in the coin business, certainly in our area of the country. James had his personal collections on hand: his Standing Liberty and Washington quarters. I am usually attracted to the older coins, but his Washington quarter collection, in the Dansco album, is a knockout. Dennis had a neat 82-CC $5 PCGS AG-3 that caught my eye...until the impulse passed.
I toured what was left of the bourse looking for rare gold coins. Superior had some very valuable proof and early gold coins boldly sitting in an unattended case at an unattended table. I expect these are coins for a future auction. I saw very little mintmarked No Motto gold. There were two No Motto New Orleans tens, both overdipped, NGC AUs that were especially unattractive. I did not see a Dahlonega $5 on the premises. As usual, there were lots of Saints and quite a few late date generic Liberty $5's, $10's, and $20's, both slabbed and raw.
Fortunately, there were very few third rate slabs present on the bourse. Yes, one guy had a whole case of SEGS slabs, but this was an exception rather than the rule. PCI had abandoned their table and apparently had zero business the previous two days. NGC, PCGS, and ANACS were still there.
Retail traffic was not especially strong, but it appeared that the people who came to the show came to buy. I spent a total of $20 for three early date circulated Buffalo nickels for my son's collection and that was it.
I made a beeline for the Broken CC-Northern Nevada table and visited Aaron and Allen, two very pleasant guys from Carson City. I sold two coins to them, and as always, they treated me very fairly. I also saw two rare CC gold coins at their table, a 70-CC $5 VF-30 and a 70-CC $10 XF-40. They were both nice, circulated, original problem-free coins which would look good in my collection...some day.
Then, I was off to visit old friends Dennis and James (of Jade and EarlyUS Coins). These are two of the nicest guys in the coin business, certainly in our area of the country. James had his personal collections on hand: his Standing Liberty and Washington quarters. I am usually attracted to the older coins, but his Washington quarter collection, in the Dansco album, is a knockout. Dennis had a neat 82-CC $5 PCGS AG-3 that caught my eye...until the impulse passed.
I toured what was left of the bourse looking for rare gold coins. Superior had some very valuable proof and early gold coins boldly sitting in an unattended case at an unattended table. I expect these are coins for a future auction. I saw very little mintmarked No Motto gold. There were two No Motto New Orleans tens, both overdipped, NGC AUs that were especially unattractive. I did not see a Dahlonega $5 on the premises. As usual, there were lots of Saints and quite a few late date generic Liberty $5's, $10's, and $20's, both slabbed and raw.
Fortunately, there were very few third rate slabs present on the bourse. Yes, one guy had a whole case of SEGS slabs, but this was an exception rather than the rule. PCI had abandoned their table and apparently had zero business the previous two days. NGC, PCGS, and ANACS were still there.
Retail traffic was not especially strong, but it appeared that the people who came to the show came to buy. I spent a total of $20 for three early date circulated Buffalo nickels for my son's collection and that was it.
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The Scotsman auction was attended by 75-100 bidders. From my observations, red IHC's were hot, along with high grade Jeffs and upgrade candidate Frankies. Errors did VERY POOR, often selling to internet bidders for 1/2 or less the catalog estimate. I managed to pick up a 71 no S proof set and a neat colonial error (a flip over double struck Fugio in VF).
It was a 5-6 hr drive from my house (one-way), but I needed a coin fix because I dont plan on attending another until the Indiana State show in November, and then FUN in January.
Too bad I missed ya RYK.......... Maybe next time !
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Good morning Robert...
Although I would like to have went I was unable to go.
Cameron Kiefer
PCGS and PCI were already gone when I got there. I did not want to wake up the people at the NGC table to ask. ANACS did not.
Cameron Kiefer
Jerry
RYK, was the 82-CC in PCGS AG-3 too high grade for you?
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Actually, I thought it was a Fr-2 at best. And I thought you were asking moon money, to boot.
#1: I will have you know that coin was crossed from an ACG AU-50 holder
#2: Gold is now over $420/ounce. You should have bought it when you had the chance. I just increased the price by $2 to reflect the soaring gold spot price.
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