MNS Show report

golden

I arrived at the St. Charles Convention Center at 11:40 on Thursday and quickly got my show badge. At the noon opening there were 40-50 people waiting to go inside. I turned left to start my tour of the bourse. After an hour I was very hungry ( the breakfast at the hotel was bad ) so I went to a Chinese restaurant across I -70. The lunch was nice and for dessert they had apple and cherry pie. I could not decide soooooooooooooo.
After lunch I returned to the show. I saw an 1883 $10 in PO-1! Another dealer had 20 or so mixed date and mint War Nickels in PCGS 66 for $15 each. Another offered raw Peace Dollars ( I probably should have bought some ) that were XF-AU for $19 each.
Jonathan Kern had two large piles of old auction catalogs with a sign on top that said " Free ,no discount for quanity ".
I finally came across a coin that I needed. It was an 1859-O $1 in PCGS AU 58 with natural light brown toning. It had too many bag marks in the field above the eagle so I passed.
The only paper money dealer, that had a number of national bank notes ,did not have any from my state.
By 4PM I finished and had not bought anything so I headed for home.
The MNS show is held at a very nice facility with plenty of free parking. I always enjoy attending even if I do not buy anything!

MICHAELDIXON

Good report!

DIMEMAN

Good report......sorry you couldn't find anything you liked. It is a nice place for a show as you stated.....except for the construction going on. And it probably won't be done by the Silver Dollar Dollar Show in October. ARGH!!

ricko

Nice report.... I have attended shows where I purchased nothing.... still had an enjoyable time viewing and chatting.... Cheers, RickO

kaz

thanks for the report. Where is the MNS show? (east coaster here).

golden

Originally posted by: kaz
thanks for the report. Where is the MNS show? (east coaster here).

The MNS show is in St. Charles, Missouri.