EAC convention report

ajaan

Let me start by saying I don't collect early American copper coins. I went to the show because it was local and a friend of mine in NC asked me to look for an 1806 1c for him.

My wife and I arrived on the bourse floor around 9:10 this morning. As expected for a show that isn't widely advertised, there wasn't very much floor traffic. The first table we went to was that of John Kraljevich, Pistareen on the forums, who initially invited me through a reply in a thread, to attend. John is the nicest guy one could meet. I was surprised he was so young and also surprised he remembered I was searching for an 1806 1c in VG. John said we should have no problem finding one and to not just look in dealer's cases but to ask, as many dealers have coins behind their table.

So off we went in search of the 1806. It wasn't an easy search. Almost every table we asked at we were told they don't have one but it would be easy to find one. After being told this about 10 times we were getting discouraged. Some dealers didn't have any 1806s, some had AG and G examples, some had VF-AU coins, no nice VGs in what we considered a nice price range. Finally as we were about to give up, we went to the table of Shawn Yancey from Earlycoppercpoins.com. He had a coin that was in our grade and price range so we snapped it up. Here is a quick image I took:



After finding the 1806 we went to talk to Dan, coinduece, who I've communicated by PM with but never met. Nice guy who sold me a **gasp** Morgan Dollar **gasp**.

Our final stop was at a table of a dealer from Newark, DE whose name I can't remember but who was also a nice, very talkative, guy. He had a box of lower priced large cents I looked through and couldn't resist buying this one:



Funky color I know, but the price was right.

With the exception of one dealer who totally ignored my wife and me as we stood at his table, we found the dealers to be a very friendly likeable lot, not what we always see at larger national shows. And boy, do those EAC people like to talk. One dealer practically gave us his life story, which was quite interesting and entertaining. Overall I'm glad we attended.

And yes, there was more nice early copper coins there then I've ever seen. As a collector of British coins I was also surprised to see so many Conder Tokens.

spinaker2000

<< <i>With the exception of one dealer who totally ignored my wife >>





Musta been a blind dealer.

Nice report and nice 1806 for some lucky dog.

WhiteTornado

Thanks for the report. Cool that you found something for yourself as well as your friend.

Walkerguy21D

Thanks for sharing the report.

Also, I feel somewhat vindicated, as I had posted on someone's BST ad that the 1806 large cent is a sleeper date in the series. Seems to be scarcer than the mintage woud indicate.

ricko

Good report, especially from an non-EAC collector. Cheers, RickO

Moldnut

Thanks for the report. Shawn is a great guy and I was lucky enough to be able to talk with him for hours at last years EAC. The EAC shows are great as you dont need to buy a single coin to make it successful. What you learn is worth the trip alone.

ajaan

<< <i>Also, I feel somewhat vindicated, as I had posted on someone's BST ad that the 1806 large cent is a sleeper date in the series. Seems to be scarcer than the mintage woud indicate. >>


I saw more 1807/6 cents in lower grade than 1806 coins.

ThePennyLady

Thanks for the report, glad you were persistent and found what you were looking for. I think the EAC convention is a great place to socialize and learn about copper, not to mention it has the most amazing array of early copper you'll ever see anywhere!