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I was so depressed looking at the JUNK at the Burlington Township coin show today......

ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,833 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Yuk. What JUNK. Do you want Morgan dollars by the truckload? .......Ugly common morgans probably sold for melt and then "became valuable collector coins" when yon dealer put them into the 2X2?

I learned the meaning of DREK today.

Oh Boy did I ever......

No WONDER some of these coin dealers whine like little babies about slow sales......YOURS SELLING GARBAGE, GUYS!

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  • stinkinlincolnstinkinlincoln Posts: 2,733 ✭
    I wanted to go and was all ready to shop... Fricking car...image



    So no new gold pieces?
  • PushkinPushkin Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭

    Coin shows can be fun and coin shows can be depressing. I've never been to a cat show that wasn't fun.
  • FilthyBrokeFilthyBroke Posts: 3,518
    At least you had a show to attend. I'd love to just go and wander around for a while, but our next local one is in November.image


    But I know what you're saying, I've attended a few snoozers.
  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,524 ✭✭✭✭✭
    So it's not just the Florida shows, huh? I've been to the Clearwater show, Summer FUN, and our local show over the past two weeks, and other than a few odds and ends, mostly from my wholesale guy, I haven't found much at all worthwhile. And I know it's not just me....most of the dealers I talked to were saying the same thing - very little around worth buying.
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  • GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
    The dealers who are selling nothing but crappy Morgans in 2x2's aren't the ones complaining about the condition of the market. The people who are really hit hard are the people selling the top pops.
  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,833 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ohhhh they were buying. Grungy old silver from civilians....writing checks out...seen this happen at a few tables. But, thats DREK. They'll get home, take a look at the junk, put it in 2x2's, dream up a price...and voila *a rare collector coin* which will grace their table for the next six years.

    BTW a lot of those guys should take a bath and wash their hair.
  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,833 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You might be right.....but Ill tell you I came home and just now spent $2990 on a coin from Heritage.

    So....the money is out there for coins. But it appears that there may be a constriction in the marketplace in that the BEST is from Heritage. If Joe Dealer had that coin in his tray today....he would have gotten the 3K. (and could have purchased some shampoo)

    I did buy two things there...an NGC slab box and the 4 coin lincoln proof set ($18) which Ill give to my granddaughter.
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭
    I guess when folks say BAN the dealers,

    they are referring to under arm roll on.
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  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,833 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Aww Bear, let me tell ya...between the BO and the smell of HOT DOGS.................................image
  • BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,131 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Des Moines coin club had a one day show yesterday. Man talk about bein slower than Mike Tyson at a spelling bee. At 10 a.m. smoe dealers was readin books. Saw a few coins I coulda bought iffn I'd had $5-$6K extra.


    Oh; and not even ONE CAC sticker in the place that I could see.
    theknowitalltroll;
  • lathmachlathmach Posts: 4,720 ✭
    Wonder if any of those DREK Morgans were rare VAMs?
    You did check em out didn't you amblo51?
    With truckloads of them, there just had to be something good there.
    Sounds like there were plenty of coins and some possibly rare coins, but no hard plastic around em, so that made em DREK.

    Ray
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I did a show report on this show a few months back titled - Smaller Shows... Shower Optional?
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • silvergoldnutsilvergoldnut Posts: 456 ✭✭
    it wasn't that bad,

    yes the guy by the food window needs to learn how to grade !!!! and a shower wouldn't hurt him too !!!


    but i found some key date morgans that were great and priced right... 1883 cc morgan at leasst a ms 62 for 140.00 ...

    i do find that you have to ask to see the good tuff, which i never will understand... if it were me i would put all my high grade stuff out for everyone to see...
  • OnlyGoldIsMoneyOnlyGoldIsMoney Posts: 3,381 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I did a show report on this show a few months back titled - Smaller Shows... Shower Optional? >>




    Agreed. The local Pennsylvania shows I attend always have more than our rightful share of soap dodgers.
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  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,833 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would not know a VAM from a LAM, or a HAM.

    dont have the patience, knowledge or desire for them...but to each his own. I suppose a lot of $$$ is to be made on junk silver doing that.
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    soap dodgers

    image
    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • BarbercoinBarbercoin Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭
    <<....talk about bein slower than Mike Tyson at a spelling bee>> image

    WTB: Barber Quarters XF

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