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I went to my first official coin show :D
mrpaseo
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Well, my wife, daughter and I went, we all had fun and my daughter said she would go again (Oh happy days 
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I have a question though, have you ever seen a dealer throwing coins?
I was beside myself when I saw a coin dealer rattling off prices to a customer and dropping/throwing the coins down on the books... something like this, "Thisone books for 350 but I'll go 200 on it" then threw the coin down on the book, then he would read off another and throw it down on the book. These were in 2X2's
Then just when I thought I saw it all... I saw a dealer throw a RAW coin that belonged to a COSTOMER to another guy, it landed on yet another coin book and then hit the table... They guy said something to the fact of, "Hey Mike, is this the LG date variety?"
I could not believe it.
As for the coin show, it was great, i was a bit over welmed, a bit unprepared to purchase so we only spent 1 dollar on a few darkside coins that my daughter picked out. We basically went for the experiance as we had only a two day notice and we had NO money in the coin fund
Ray
)I have a question though, have you ever seen a dealer throwing coins?
I was beside myself when I saw a coin dealer rattling off prices to a customer and dropping/throwing the coins down on the books... something like this, "Thisone books for 350 but I'll go 200 on it" then threw the coin down on the book, then he would read off another and throw it down on the book. These were in 2X2's
Then just when I thought I saw it all... I saw a dealer throw a RAW coin that belonged to a COSTOMER to another guy, it landed on yet another coin book and then hit the table... They guy said something to the fact of, "Hey Mike, is this the LG date variety?"
I could not believe it.
As for the coin show, it was great, i was a bit over welmed, a bit unprepared to purchase so we only spent 1 dollar on a few darkside coins that my daughter picked out. We basically went for the experiance as we had only a two day notice and we had NO money in the coin fund
Ray
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It's great to see (and hear about) new people going to shows. That thing that you saw the dealer do ie: toss the coin down on the book. I swear that's how they make people believe they're "big time" dealers. Dealers who give a crap would not do that. As for the dealer who tossed the raw coins? If I had been the customer, he'd've OWNED that coin at Full Trends! After I pulled my boot out of his a__. There is NO excuse for that and I would never buy from such a person.
But anyhooo , I hope you go to many more shows!!!
Try to attend a few more shows . Not necessarily to buy , but to observe.
Tom
<< <i>To you , it is something to be treasured . To many (not all) dealers it's just 'stuff'. They are not collectors . >>
That's why I prefer to support dealers who are or once were collectors. They would understand the horror of tossing coins.
<< <i>I have a question though, have you ever seen a dealer throwing coins? >>
Yes I have. In fact watch for dealers who throw them in slabs. Some like to throw/drop rare coins on the top of their cases. The more noise an expensive rare coin makes
hitting something, the cooler they think it is. The only thing I discover from it is that the particular dealer is unprofessional & has no hint of what collectors are about. They just
want your money & could care less about the coins. Not to mention chipping up the slabs.