Coin show report

golden

Yesterday I drove 25+ miles to a 50 dealer two day coin show that is held twice a year. I arrived about an hour and a half after the show opened. The first thing I noticed was that fully 20% of the dealer tables were vacant.This usually seems to be a fairly good show.Since I only look for PCGS coins ,I made the rounds quickly except for one dealer who had a number of double row boxes of PCGS and NGC slabs. I spend about a half hour going through his boxes and found nothing for which I needed to ask the price. The show was very dead.I only saw 2 purchases.One guy bought a coin for $24 and I saw a YN,who was there with his father, spend $165 on a couple of Silver Dollars.Most of the dealers were just standing around talking among themselves.One dealer's wife gave out a homemade Christmas cookie to anyone who came by their table.I would grade it a 35.I did not expect to find anything to buy and so I was not disappointed.At least I got my numismatic fix for the day.

COALPORTER

Great report Is that 35 out of 100 or 70 ?

ambro51

been there done that

TwoSides2aCoin

Almost makes a guy want to take up snoring, huh ?

stealer

Wow, I can feel the boredom just reading that.

golfer72

No AU 43's ?

ricko

Seems to reflect all the coin shows lately... albeit the smaller shows always appear slower. Market down. Cheers, RickO

291fifth

<< <i>Seems to reflect all the coin shows lately... albeit the smaller shows always appear slower. Market down. Cheers, RickO >>



Is the market down or has there been a dramatic shift away from shows?

shorecoll

Market might be down...think I'll start a new thread on why..."dreck saturation".

golden

No 1943's there,but there was a lot of dreck.

Type2

Wish i was there....

silverman68

Was this the show in Fort Worth? I have noticed the last few months that "coin" dealers do almost no business but bullion dealers do a bit more. With metals in the current fall I'm sure shows will be this way until something changes.

GoldClause

Were the dealers cranky?