What part of the Whitman Baltimore bourse should Master Longacre start at (new to collecting)?

Longacre

Sometimes the best education is not learned in the classroom. Rather, one must experience the real world in order to understand how things work.

On Friday, your very own Longacre may allow his son, Master Longacre, age 12, to attend the Whitman Baltimore show.
I figure this will be a good teaching moment outside of the classroom, and allow Master Longacre to experience the world of high finance, how to run a profitable business on razor thin margins, how to effectively negotiate sales such that buyers and the dealers walk away feeling good, getting good value for the dollar, witness my selling my duplicates back to dealers at Obscene Profits™, experiencing the fine dining available just steps off the bourse in the lobby, and viewing some of the most easy-going businessmen and business women in action, creating an inclusive atmosphere on the bourse where everyone is a winner.

As such, as Longacre is rubbing elbows at the Elite end the bourse and greeting his fans (but please don’t approach unless you speak with one of my bodyguards first), he may send Master Longacre off with some of his personnel to peer into the Less Elite sections of the bourse.

If I were to do that, are there any “must visit” tables that have coins that a young Master Longacre, who is not necessarily a collector yet, would be interested in looking at? He has a strong interest in non-US coins, which is not the focus of Baltimore, but perhaps there is a dealer or two who may have things like this. On the US coin front, he tends to like anything “old” and unusual. Lastly, he seems to also have an affinity for paper currency (the horror), particularly non-US issues.

Any thoughts?

Dentuck

I would be remiss if I didn't heartily recommend that you tuck a few crisp C-notes into the young man's tender paw and send him off to the Whitman Publishing display. "Buy the book before the obscenely expensive coin," and all that.

Dentuck will be in Baltimore for a whirlwind 24 hours, starting with an exclusive private dinner with QDB tonight at an undisclosed restaurant, whereat the urgent issues of the day will be discussed, questions answered, and problems solved. This will be followed by an immersion in and around the bourse, starting at 6:00 tomorrow morning, before the pre-pre-show opens, meeting with excessively important hobby personages, eating the finest mustard-glazed convention-center pretzels, and then back to the corporate blimp-pad to begin the 36-hour zeppelin ride back to Atlanta.

Longacre

@Dentuck said:
I would be remiss if I didn't heartily recommend that you tuck a few crisp C-notes into the young man's tender paw and send him off to the Whitman Publishing display. "Buy the book before the obscenely expensive coin," and all that.

Dentuck will be in Baltimore for a whirlwind 24 hours, starting with an exclusive private dinner with QDB tonight at an undisclosed restaurant, whereat the urgent issues of the day will be discussed, questions answered, and problems solved. This will be followed by an immersion in and around the bourse, starting at 6:00 tomorrow morning, before the pre-pre-show opens, meeting with excessively important hobby personages, eating the finest mustard-glazed convention-center pretzels, and then back to the corporate blimp-pad to begin the 36-hour zeppelin ride back to Atlanta.

Other than my beloved QDB, I was going to insist that Master Longacre make it a point to meet Dentuck, the publishing magnate. It isn't often that he will get to meet such excessive important Whitman Personalities(TM) in one place, but it looks like it's not to be.

messydesk

Just remember to instruct him that in polite company "Budget Section" is pronounced with the 't' in "Budget" silent, with the stress on the 'e'.

roadrunner

Ensure that Master Longacre does judge the book by its cover. That is, a dealer with Grey Poupon stains is eminently superior to one with plain old Gulden's.

Longacre

@messydesk said:
Just remember to instruct him that in polite company "Budget Section" is pronounced with the 't' in "Budget" silent, with the stress on the 'e'.

Sort of like, "boo-zhay"? That's how we pronounce it in the Longacre household.

Insider2

I should send him to each of the TPGS tables to see if one of the graders/authenticators there could give him some tips (wait 'til there are no customers at the table).

claychaser

Coin Rarities Online always has some cool foreign stuff to see, and some if it is beyond the means of us working class collectors, and some if quite affordable:

http://www.coinraritiesonline.com/images/thumbs/1686-kv00916.JPG

carabonnair

Young Master Longacre would do well to peruse the stock of Allen G. Berman, Numismatist (booth 1131). His Royal Highness, the King of Bermania, may be inclined to acquiesce to Requests to view His vast Holdings of Coins from the Whole World.

Coinosaurus

Stop by #818 for a selection of Chinese gold. Have a great show!

ricko

Please ensure that young Master includes his perceptions in a brief show report (can be included as part of your eminently insightful comments). Cheers, RickO

shorecoll

Take him to lair of one CVM, if he yawns at copper disks, drag him quickly to the kingdom of Dick Osburn, if he sneers at the halves of silver...smack him across the room and flee.

EldoEsq

While I am not esteemed royalty like Longacre and clan, my 9yo and myself will be there to hopefully pick up some pennies from the floor...first show ever for my plebian seed...

Longacre

@EldoEsq said:
While I am not esteemed royalty like Longacre and clan, my 9yo and myself will be there to hopefully pick up some pennies from the floor...first show ever for my plebian seed...

It's a great show. Hope you can find some pennies among the rose petals that are sprinkled about as Longacre makes his way throughout the bourse.

MsMorrisine

we know not the Master Longacre's boozhay...

bolivarshagnasty

@shorecoll said:
Take him to lair of one CVM, if he yawns at copper disks, drag him quickly to the kingdom of Dick Osburn, if he sneers at the halves of silver...smack him across the room and flee...............

................as the child may not be of your loin.

mr1931S

I would go to this show if they had a pad for my helicopters carrying me and my entourage to land on.

Raufus

In addition to the coins, I'm sure that he'll enjoy the fossil table - my kids love it.

I hope that you both have a great time!!