Chicago Coin Expo

Yorkshireman

Did anyone go to the Chicago Coin Expo today?
Please tell us about your experience.

bidask

I was there today .
I estimate 40% of the dealers held ancients .
Most exclusively.

Of the 60 % remaining half of those had mostly
raw coins and the other half had slabs.
Maybe 50 to 60 dealers

Not sure why there were not more as the setting was nice, location good. The old CICF consistently had 90-100 dealers .

I picked up some nice original coins including a PCGS AU 58 1848 SO JM Chile 8R, 1858 Colombia peso NGC AU 53 , 4 nice cap and rays dated 1868 GO YF 1875 GO FR 1884 GA AH
and an 1886 MO MH.....all NGC 65 .

Another coin I really liked was a choice original
L'AN 6k France 5 francs in NGC 55. (Pop1).

Also a gemmy 1926 NGC 65 Mexico 50 pesos with nice orange hues.

Though I wish there were more dealers I very much enjoyed the show .

Now I'm sitting at the Heritage auction.

They served a nice meal !

bidask

The dealers I talked with were Andy Lustig, James Ricks, Josh at Civatas, Daniel Sedgwick,
Paul Brombal , Chris at Heritage , Mark Teller and several others.

Also there was a nice party hosted by Herittage
Wednesday evening at their Chicago office.

Yorkshireman

@bidask said:
I was there today .

I picked up some nice original coins including a PCGS AU 58 1848 SO JM Chile 8R, 1858 Colombia peso NGC AU 53 , 4 nice cap and rays dated 1868 GO YF 1875 GO FR 1884 GA AH
and an 1886 MO MH.....all NGC 65 .

Another coin I really liked was a choice original
L'AN 6k France 5 francs in NGC 55. (Pop1).

Also a gemmy 1926 NGC 65 Mexico 50 pesos with nice orange hues.

I’d love to see pics of the Cap & Rays!!