First sunday coin and stamp show

bronco2078

At the Holiday inn in Dedham Mass. I dropped in there in November and December and it wasn't happening. Both times listed on the website , November was an over eaters type group having a thing. So in December I called the front desk the day before and asked if it was going to be that Sunday and the clerk said sure. I showed up and it was antique toys not coins and stamps, and the guy you pay to get in said I was about the tenth person already that thought there was a coin show. He also said they had been there in December on the first Sunday for a few years , it wasn't a new thing.

Is this Sunday going to be a coin and stamp show or will there be people who collect pogs there?

ricko

Wow...pogs.... have not heard about them in years.... used to be a big collector thing. Some went for amazing prices...now, probably in a storage box with the beanie babies.... Cheers, RickO

JohnnyCache

I can't speak to the show in Dedham but if you were willing to just drive a bit further you could hit one of these other shows.

http://www.ebwpromotions.com/2018.pdf (LINK takes a second or two to load)

Only roughly an hour and 30 minutes from the south shore, and there's never any traffic
1 h 21 min (75.5 mi) via MA-3 N and MA-2 W
1 h 30 min (89.6 mi) via I-495 N
1 h 32 min (92.1 mi) via MA-3 N

bronco2078

@JohnnyCache said:
I can't speak to the show in Dedham but if you were willing to just drive a bit further you could hit one of these other shows.

http://www.ebwpromotions.com/2018.pdf (LINK takes a second or two to load)

Only roughly an hour and 30 minutes from the south shore, and there's never any traffic
1 h 21 min (75.5 mi) via MA-3 N and MA-2 W
1 h 30 min (89.6 mi) via I-495 N
1 h 32 min (92.1 mi) via MA-3 N

I'll hold onto the link thanks. I have been to the show in Auburn before and maybe the Nashua show a long time ago. I was actually interested in the stamp portion of the show. I recently inherited a large stamp collection and I wanted to walk around and get an idea of what the lay of the land is

bronco2078

Well I went to the show and it was pretty subdued . It used to cost money to get in but now its free. There were a few coin tables out front. And about 20 tables of stamp guys in back plus a few mixed.

Stamp prices are pretty depressing , postage was being sold at 75% of face some booklets being sold at face.

I had an offer of 50% of face value for sheets or 75% of face value for forever stamps.

I met a few people that offered to look at what I had and got some business cards to contact them.

I asked about junk silver but no one had any so I bought a baseball commemorative dollar for $50 and a franklin mint proof set and headed out.