ANA show, portland - new purchases

Ricke

Well, it's been a busy week, but I thought it was time to post my new additions from last weekend's ANA show in portland. Great show, by the way. Cacheman, your exhibit was very cool. I went back to check it out a second time, before I left. There were also some guys demonstrating some older minting techniques - they even had a small version of the screw press and they were making demonstration tokens for sale. The costumes might have been a bit much, but it was worth the time.

I sort of thought the world coin table ratio was a bit disappointing, but there was some great material for what was there. I got to inspect an actual gold striking of a Utrecht 10 stuivers (generally a silver struck denomination), which is a coin I thought I would never see. Of course, it was WELL outside my budget, so (for now) being able to look at it in hand was pretty sweet.

So, in the end, here's what I took home:


Zeeland, 1771 6 Stuivers AKA "ship shilling"


Bavaria, 1780A 20 Kreuzer - I'm pretty disappointed with this photo. In hand, wow - in this image... meh. It's graded NGC MS64PL, and well deserved, really. The fields are near flawless and reflective. I'm going to keep trying to capture it a little better, but this is what I have for now.

So, overall, good show. It was worth the 4 hour drive. Would have liked to see more dealers in world coins, I think the show could have lost a couple US tables, and no one would have noticed...

TwoKopeiki

The Bavarian piece looks great - I don't know what you're talking about!

Congrats on the new pick-ups!

cacheman

Rick, Glad to see you found something at least. I played it safe and never walked into the bourse...that's right, I just hung out in the exhibit area because I had a big purchase to make this week with the Goetz family and I couldn't even entertain the idea of buying something while I was in Portland. I heard from others that there was Goetz material out there but it probably wouldn't have held a candle to the stuff I picked up.

I heard from a few people that many of the dealers were more caustic, opinionated, and full-of-themselves at this show.

S

PS Glad you liked the exhibit.

Ricke

I didn't think so, but I imagine if that's true it probably market residue. Although the show seemed to have pretty good attendance, I saw a lot of browsers and not a lot of money crossing the tables, you know?

Personally, I found the prices at some tables to be flat out ridiculous. That was a little frustrating. I'm really happy with what I picked for my collection - both are very nice fits, but I was looking for something larger. There seemed to be a huge disconnect from one price range to the next.

Silvereagle82

Looks like you had a good time and picked up a couple of nice coins.
Both are very nice additions to your collection.
Of course I'm biased towards the ship shilling