Santa Clara show report, and links to the 6(?) others.
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The Santa Clara show was fun socially and for looking at coins, and mediocre to poor for purchasing coins for me. In no particular order I met Becoka, CarlWohlforth, Coingame2000, Poorguy, Prenum, Sanction II, and WTCG, along with a variety of members from my local coin club. Carl, Kevin (Sanction II) and I got together on Friday for a little show and tell. Wei dropped by while we were there so that was nice. Carl has some really nice proof Jeffersons from the 1936-42 era. Unfortunately he had to leave early. Kevin is a cameo Frankie Junkie, so as two peas in a pod, it was fun to shmooze about that. He brought his raw set, which is VERY nice. He also brought his type set which has a bunch of very nice coins, with a toned Peace dollar that is very tasty. The dealer board members all had assorted fun goodies at their tables.
As to purchasing coins, on thursday I started the show by paying off a dealer for 6 toned Frankies he sent me earlier this month. I saw some very nicely toned Frankies at a couple other dealers tables, but the bottom line was too much. There were several other coins that were quite pleasant, notably on thursday a MS64 1917-P Type 1 SLQ, with pleasant toning, but again, the bottom line was too much. I spent a whopping $10 total that day on a BC coin... No, not a Battle Creek, a raw British Columbia 1858-1958 Centennial dollar in AU. It's got a fun totem design on the reverse.
On Friday, I purchased 3 raw 1958-D coins from an original mintset. Two Frankies (one obverse toned and one reverse toned), and 1 reverse toned Roosie. The Frankies are real firecrackers in iridescent green and red. The Roosie has the same color, but is somewhat less in your face. Unfortunately the Frankies aren't the cleanest of coins. The reverse toner is 65 with FBL, but there are enough dings in the lines that I'm not sure it will slab FBL. The obverse is a solid 64, but I'm hoping it'll go 5 'cause the color is pretty amazing. It will not FBL. Due to the 2 coins having the same toning I submitted 'em to NGC to put in a paired coin holder. The Roosie is a solid 65 with claims to 6, but I'm just keeping it raw.
One thing that was fun was that when the Kellogg $20 specimen (PCGS SP69) was taken out of it's plate glass enclosure for the night I was right there and the person holding it asked me if I'd like to see it. Welllllll, duhhhhh!!! Of course! It was fun to hold in my hand and put it under the loupe. I really liked the reverse.
Friday night I bid on a couple of toned Morgans at the Superior auction, but got beaten on 702 and blown out of the water on 709.
Saturday was mainly a day for trying to find a nice type coin for my type set. I was sitting at a dealer's table (the dealer specializes in Type coins in the under $2,000 range) checking out some coins, and got into a conversation with the dealer and the other customer who was there before me, about cracking coins out of their slabs and keeping them raw. I mentioned that when I originally was putting together my Frankie cameo set I cracked the coins out of their holders and put them in a custom designed Capital Plastics holder. I was STUNNED at what the customer then began pulling out of his bag. First, this gentleman pulls a VERY nice PR65Cameo 1950 Frankie out (all his coins were PCGS slabbed). I didn't have any cameo Frankies on me but I did have some good stuff in my box so I pulled out my cameo Walker. So then this guy pulls out the best example known (can't remember the grade) of a die marriage of a DBHE quarter, 1807(?), and for chump change throws in an AU58 High Relief Saint. I pulled out my toner CBH, so he pulls out this 1880 PR63Cameo Morgan that sure looked a heck of a lot better than the grade. Making a long story short he and I kept pulling stuff out, with his piece de resistance being a 1798 DB dollar in AU58 that was frigging HAMMERED. This coin literally had puffy cheeks and the bust looked like it was going to explode. We moved our stuff away from the dealers table to an empty table, where this gentleman pulled out his raw typeset. Let's just say there were some goodies in there. Then he pulled out his GOOD typeset. At that point the call of nature struck him and he got up and was going to leave all his coins with me to look at while he took a leak. I couldn't believe it, here was a guy I had met half an hour to an hour before and he was going to leave $100,000+ worth of coins with me to look at while he went off to take a leak. I told him I felt uncomfortable about him leaving the coins, but got his name and number, and am going to (a) try and hook up with him again, and (b) try and get him to join our local coin club.
Most of the slabbed type stuff on the floor was mediocre for the grade or SUBSTANTIALLY above graysheet ask if the coins looked nice. Towards the end of the show I found a decent 1914 PCGS MS64 Barber dime for just over graysheet, so that was my lone purchase for the day.
It looks like everybody has written a show report, so here's as many links to others as I can find...
CarlWohlforth
Kiyote
Fletcher
Topstuf
Sanction II
Anyone going to Santa Clara? thread.
As to purchasing coins, on thursday I started the show by paying off a dealer for 6 toned Frankies he sent me earlier this month. I saw some very nicely toned Frankies at a couple other dealers tables, but the bottom line was too much. There were several other coins that were quite pleasant, notably on thursday a MS64 1917-P Type 1 SLQ, with pleasant toning, but again, the bottom line was too much. I spent a whopping $10 total that day on a BC coin... No, not a Battle Creek, a raw British Columbia 1858-1958 Centennial dollar in AU. It's got a fun totem design on the reverse.
On Friday, I purchased 3 raw 1958-D coins from an original mintset. Two Frankies (one obverse toned and one reverse toned), and 1 reverse toned Roosie. The Frankies are real firecrackers in iridescent green and red. The Roosie has the same color, but is somewhat less in your face. Unfortunately the Frankies aren't the cleanest of coins. The reverse toner is 65 with FBL, but there are enough dings in the lines that I'm not sure it will slab FBL. The obverse is a solid 64, but I'm hoping it'll go 5 'cause the color is pretty amazing. It will not FBL. Due to the 2 coins having the same toning I submitted 'em to NGC to put in a paired coin holder. The Roosie is a solid 65 with claims to 6, but I'm just keeping it raw.
One thing that was fun was that when the Kellogg $20 specimen (PCGS SP69) was taken out of it's plate glass enclosure for the night I was right there and the person holding it asked me if I'd like to see it. Welllllll, duhhhhh!!! Of course! It was fun to hold in my hand and put it under the loupe. I really liked the reverse.
Friday night I bid on a couple of toned Morgans at the Superior auction, but got beaten on 702 and blown out of the water on 709.
Saturday was mainly a day for trying to find a nice type coin for my type set. I was sitting at a dealer's table (the dealer specializes in Type coins in the under $2,000 range) checking out some coins, and got into a conversation with the dealer and the other customer who was there before me, about cracking coins out of their slabs and keeping them raw. I mentioned that when I originally was putting together my Frankie cameo set I cracked the coins out of their holders and put them in a custom designed Capital Plastics holder. I was STUNNED at what the customer then began pulling out of his bag. First, this gentleman pulls a VERY nice PR65Cameo 1950 Frankie out (all his coins were PCGS slabbed). I didn't have any cameo Frankies on me but I did have some good stuff in my box so I pulled out my cameo Walker. So then this guy pulls out the best example known (can't remember the grade) of a die marriage of a DBHE quarter, 1807(?), and for chump change throws in an AU58 High Relief Saint. I pulled out my toner CBH, so he pulls out this 1880 PR63Cameo Morgan that sure looked a heck of a lot better than the grade. Making a long story short he and I kept pulling stuff out, with his piece de resistance being a 1798 DB dollar in AU58 that was frigging HAMMERED. This coin literally had puffy cheeks and the bust looked like it was going to explode. We moved our stuff away from the dealers table to an empty table, where this gentleman pulled out his raw typeset. Let's just say there were some goodies in there. Then he pulled out his GOOD typeset. At that point the call of nature struck him and he got up and was going to leave all his coins with me to look at while he took a leak. I couldn't believe it, here was a guy I had met half an hour to an hour before and he was going to leave $100,000+ worth of coins with me to look at while he went off to take a leak. I told him I felt uncomfortable about him leaving the coins, but got his name and number, and am going to (a) try and hook up with him again, and (b) try and get him to join our local coin club.
Most of the slabbed type stuff on the floor was mediocre for the grade or SUBSTANTIALLY above graysheet ask if the coins looked nice. Towards the end of the show I found a decent 1914 PCGS MS64 Barber dime for just over graysheet, so that was my lone purchase for the day.
It looks like everybody has written a show report, so here's as many links to others as I can find...
CarlWohlforth
Kiyote
Fletcher
Topstuf
Sanction II
Anyone going to Santa Clara? thread.
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