My Santa Clara show report
LanLord
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Started out great, met one of our forum members - Cladiator. We sat and talked for a while, looked over coins and did a little business (I picked up a nice 1832 half dime in AU50 PCGS).
Then I unfortunately pointed him in the wrong direction to Dick Osburn's table. Sorry!
It was busy, but not too busy, there was one table that I was about 2 rows out, waiting to get to the display to look at some material. I ended up picking up a couple large cents (1805 - AU53 raw and 1812 - VF30 PCGS). These made awsome upgrades to my type albums.
At another table that was completely empty of customers, I picked up a 1795 flowing hair dollar in F15 PCGS, this filled a long standing hole in my type album.
As I wondered about, I noticed that there are just way too many tables with Morgan dollars and little or nothing else. It's almost like paperclip salesmen, who gives a crap who's paperclips you buy, they just hold paper together, I feel about the same way when I look at a table with 500 or 1000 Morgan dollars - there's nothing special, just silver dollars.
I overheard some dealers talking about the price of gold and silver and how they thought it would make business really hot, but it just didn't materialize. I guess that means things weren't all that great for the guys behind the tables.
I also ended up picking up a 1819 large 9 quarter in vf20 raw. This was more of a "just wanted it" rather than an "I needed it" coin.
It seemed like it wasn't that difficult getting around the floor, I've been there many times before when I was literally pushing people out of my way, it wasn't that way today (nor yesterday).
One thing that amazes me, perhaps some dealers just don't care or they have enough money or ... I don't really know, but the first dealer I stopped at yesterday, I was looking at his display, he asked me what I was interested in. My reply was early US type. He asked what grade. I replied XF to AU. He replied good luck and picked up a paper and started to read. Just didn't even want to attempt to go any further. Oh well, his loss.
I've only had this happen once before, but it's irritating. I'll not stop at his table in the future.
The number of dealers selling the kind of stuff I like seemed like it was about one or two per row, but the number of dealers selling the kind of stuff I like that wasn't all scrubbed clean was more like about 2 or 3 to the entire show. I do find it amazing how much crap there is out there.
I noticed something I hadn't seen before at coin shows. There were people with dogs wandering around as well as at least one dealer with dogs. I like dogs, but I'm not sure I understand bringing them to coin shows.
Sorry if I rambled on too much.
Then I unfortunately pointed him in the wrong direction to Dick Osburn's table. Sorry!
It was busy, but not too busy, there was one table that I was about 2 rows out, waiting to get to the display to look at some material. I ended up picking up a couple large cents (1805 - AU53 raw and 1812 - VF30 PCGS). These made awsome upgrades to my type albums.
At another table that was completely empty of customers, I picked up a 1795 flowing hair dollar in F15 PCGS, this filled a long standing hole in my type album.
As I wondered about, I noticed that there are just way too many tables with Morgan dollars and little or nothing else. It's almost like paperclip salesmen, who gives a crap who's paperclips you buy, they just hold paper together, I feel about the same way when I look at a table with 500 or 1000 Morgan dollars - there's nothing special, just silver dollars.
I overheard some dealers talking about the price of gold and silver and how they thought it would make business really hot, but it just didn't materialize. I guess that means things weren't all that great for the guys behind the tables.
I also ended up picking up a 1819 large 9 quarter in vf20 raw. This was more of a "just wanted it" rather than an "I needed it" coin.
It seemed like it wasn't that difficult getting around the floor, I've been there many times before when I was literally pushing people out of my way, it wasn't that way today (nor yesterday).
One thing that amazes me, perhaps some dealers just don't care or they have enough money or ... I don't really know, but the first dealer I stopped at yesterday, I was looking at his display, he asked me what I was interested in. My reply was early US type. He asked what grade. I replied XF to AU. He replied good luck and picked up a paper and started to read. Just didn't even want to attempt to go any further. Oh well, his loss.
I've only had this happen once before, but it's irritating. I'll not stop at his table in the future.
The number of dealers selling the kind of stuff I like seemed like it was about one or two per row, but the number of dealers selling the kind of stuff I like that wasn't all scrubbed clean was more like about 2 or 3 to the entire show. I do find it amazing how much crap there is out there.
I noticed something I hadn't seen before at coin shows. There were people with dogs wandering around as well as at least one dealer with dogs. I like dogs, but I'm not sure I understand bringing them to coin shows.
Sorry if I rambled on too much.
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Post some pictures please!
is somewhat troubling to me. Using the bathtub
analogy, the garbage is the first things to fall,faster
and further then the good stuff. On the recovery, the
garbage is the last to recover and to a lesser extent
then the good stuff. When I say garbage, I am not
refering to circulated specimens, but rather to the
dipped out, washed up gouged, rim dinged and badely discolored
merchandise that dealers want full gray sheet ask plus on.
Camelot
I did need to take the usual shower when I got home though! heh
<< <i>STMAN, you are getting very negative
What part was negative? I didn't even do a report!