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Coin Show - Williamsburg, Virginia 1/22

au58au58 Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭
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Coin World lists this show for the upcoming weekend. Anyone have any info? Dealer attendance, etc.?

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  • dorkkarldorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭
    dunno about any of that, but williamsburg is awesome. haven't been there in a few years, but it's a wonderful slice of history, & w&m college campus is incidentally a beautiful place to visit as well. regardless of whether there's a coin show or not, consider visiting the area just for the fun of it!

    K S
  • ibzman350ibzman350 Posts: 5,315 ✭
    Just finished reading the morning paper.

    Classified Section......Coin Show, Ramada Inn (1776) Hotel, 725 Bypass Road, Williamsburg, Jan. 21 thru Jan 23. Open to public, 10-6 each day. Free admission.

    I would like to go, would also like to make it to Frederick, MD, but I have an issue with driving, other then business hoursimage....a couple more month and I'll be good to go.

    dorkkarl........your right on the money when it comes to Williamsburg.


    Herb
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  • coachleonardcoachleonard Posts: 995 ✭
    visited Colonial Williamsburg last year-- fascinating place. On the downside, i was looking forward to seeing a display of coins found at
    Colonial Williamsburg. They've hidden them away!
  • jdsinvajdsinva Posts: 1,508 ✭
    With the weather they (who are they?) are calling for, it might not make a difference about the coin show. . .

    Snow, sleet & freezing rain. . .

    It's going to be a sucky weekend!image
    Jeff

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  • wayneherndonwayneherndon Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭
    Yes, it is happening this weekend as are two other shows in the area (Frederick and Vienna). The dealers have already made their hard choices about where they'll be. Now the public gets to do the same.

    WH
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I won't be going, and I know nothing about the show, but I would love to visit Williamsburg one day!

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  • halfnuthalfnut Posts: 1,619
    This is a new show. I will be going if the weather lets me.. It took me 3 hours last night to get home and it was only a 10 mile drive.
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  • ibzman350ibzman350 Posts: 5,315 ✭
    My 10 mile ride took 4.5 hours yesterday afternoon!!!


    Herb
    Remember it's not how you pick your nose that matters, it's where you put the boogers.
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  • K6AZK6AZ Posts: 9,295 ✭


    << <i>With the weather they (who are they?) are calling for, it might not make a difference about the coin show. . .

    Snow, sleet & freezing rain. . .

    It's going to be a sucky weekend!image >>



    It started snowing here around 4PM and so far it's dropped two inches on top of the inch and a half we got yesterday. I'm not going anywhere!
  • ibzman350ibzman350 Posts: 5,315 ✭
    No snow here....... yet!!



    Herb
    Remember it's not how you pick your nose that matters, it's where you put the boogers.
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  • nolimitznolimitz Posts: 441 ✭
    sounds like a bunch-o-snow wiennies..... try getting a 1.5 feet over night..
  • K6AZK6AZ Posts: 9,295 ✭


    << <i>sounds like a bunch-o-snow wiennies..... try getting a 1.5 feet over night.. >>



    Come to Virginia sometime when we have one to three inches of snow on the ground. Watching macho men in their SUVs sliding around corners and landing in ditches will tell you why I won't go out. I know how to drive in the stuff, but most of these people in the SUVs don't have a clue and they are a serious menace.
  • jdsinvajdsinva Posts: 1,508 ✭


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    << <i>sounds like a bunch-o-snow wiennies..... try getting a 1.5 feet over night.. >>



    Come to Virginia sometime when we have one to three inches of snow on the ground. Watching macho men in their SUVs sliding around corners and landing in ditches will tell you why I won't go out. I know how to drive in the stuff, but most of these people in the SUVs don't have a clue and they are a serious menace. >>



    Tell me about it! They (who are they?) think just because they (again?) have an oceanliner of a 4WD vehicle that this entitles them to go roaring down the road at 55 MPH in the snow, sleet & ice. And the number of them that end up in the ditch! I might not get to where I'm going fast but at least I get there.

    We might not get deep snows here in Virginia all the time but we've had our share, including the eighteen inches back in the blizzard of '93 and the back-to-back twelve inch snowfalls (one on a Thursday and one on Super Bowl Sunday).
    Jeff

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  • PistareenPistareen Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭


    << <i>On the downside, i was looking forward to seeing a display of coins found at Colonial Williamsburg. They've hidden them away! >>



    I've seen a portion of the "archaeological collection" at Colonial Williamsburg, and most of it is nothing pretty to look at but incredibly interesting (and historically important) as it is. A small book that was published by Williamsburg a few years ago includes illustrations of some of the more interesting things, including a Virginia halfpenny found in Peyton Randolph's back yard. It's called The Coins of Colonial America and it's about the coolest book around for a tenspot (yes, $10). I use it as a standard textbook in my ANA Summer Seminar class. You can buy it from Colonial Williamsburg here. Eric Newman's monograph on Virginia halfpence published by ANS in the 1950s also addresses some of the coins they've found.

    Their mainline collection (non-dug coins), including donations from Joe Lasser, will be mounted in a major display that is being produced now and I believe goes out in 2007. The stuff is of absolute superb quality and is being curated by a very knowledgeable numismatist (a guy that knows not to clean an NE Shilling until it gleams). Their stuff is in good hands.

    Sorry to hijack a thread about a coin show -- but this is the real numismatic treasure of Williamsburg!
    John Kraljevich Americana
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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    dunno about any of that, but williamsburg is awesome. haven't been there in a few years, but it's a wonderful slice of history, & w&m college campus is incidentally a beautiful place to visit as well. regardless of whether there's a coin show or not, consider visiting the area just for the fun of it!

    I agree with Karl. One of the most enjoyment vacations I have ever had was a work trip for my wife that I came along in Williamsburg.
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  • halfnuthalfnut Posts: 1,619
    Will guess I will miss this one due to some things that came up at work. Not sure if it was going to be worth it or not, just a bad weekend for this new show competing against weather and two established show's. If anyone makes it to this show please give a show report.

    Dan
    U S Navy Retired 22 years - ENC(SW) Ret. - Travling Nuclear Maintanence Contractor - Working Indian Point Nuclear plant Buchanan New York
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