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Do you remember your first Long Beach Show?
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I have to admit I got the idea from watching Dave Hall's Long Beach video
and he mentions his first Long Beach show in 1966 and that got me thinking
about my first LB show, it was in 1975 I think and I lived in Santa Barbara, CA
and I was'nt even 16 yet but I did have a learners permit and back then you
could drive a motorcycle by yourself with a learners permit and I did all the
way from Santa Barbara, on an old 305 Honda that was held together with
hose clamps, tie wraps and duct tape, I bought some rolls of BU nickels and a
few were in the plasic tubes and I straped them all in a bag on the back seat
of that old 305 Honda and went back home, the funny thing is the coins in the
plastic tubes vibrated so much they left a rim mark on the insides of the tubes.
So thats what I remember about my first Long Beach Show.
You?
Steve
and he mentions his first Long Beach show in 1966 and that got me thinking
about my first LB show, it was in 1975 I think and I lived in Santa Barbara, CA
and I was'nt even 16 yet but I did have a learners permit and back then you
could drive a motorcycle by yourself with a learners permit and I did all the
way from Santa Barbara, on an old 305 Honda that was held together with
hose clamps, tie wraps and duct tape, I bought some rolls of BU nickels and a
few were in the plasic tubes and I straped them all in a bag on the back seat
of that old 305 Honda and went back home, the funny thing is the coins in the
plastic tubes vibrated so much they left a rim mark on the insides of the tubes.
So thats what I remember about my first Long Beach Show.
You?
Steve
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I have never seen so much gold in one place in all my life!
I don't think it registered in my mind coins and prices. Many here say the best for beginners is
to go to a show and I agree except a small show to start with as a large show will make your rain hurt
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I attended my first Long beach show , at one of the three in 1964.
I think I learned of it from the paper or a local coin dealer I visited regularly.
I was 17 and my father took me . I've been attending ever since.
Have only missed a handful, due mostly to bad weather, and college years.
In those early days the show had a buzz on the bourse like no other show I have ever
attended, and I have been at the fun shows and at least 20 ANA shows.
Very exciting. It was always an event to look forward to!
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I was there for an auction and don't recall much about the bourse. I don't recall that I bought a coin on the floor.
I didn't get back again until about ten years ago. My memories of recent shows have wiped out much of the memory from my first Long Beach show.
I met Jack Copeland of Royalty Coins there. He didn't know me from squat but apparently trusted this then 20 yr. old from Oregon to "run coins on the floor" for him and keep the difference.
I still see Jack on the floor at Long Beach.
His hair was brown back then
collector, about 1969/70, or maybe a year
earlier even.
I went there with my girlfriend, who
had some compassion for my hobby.
She was blonde, beautiful, the whole package.
As I'm walking up and down the aisles,
I stopped at a Denver dealer's table,
Vern Lowe, who had some very spectacular
error coins (Denver Dealer, so no surprise
at that time).
As I'm looking at Vern's selection of 1964
Double Struck and Off Center Kennedy's,
I asked some prices......which were too high
for a 20-year old UPS worker/college student;
as I intensely looked at the coins, and said
something like "Thanks, but I don't have that
kind of money", he offered to trade a nice
error coin for my girlfriend!
Of course he was kidding (?), and we had
a good laugh over it, but She never let me
forget the fact that I did hesitate for a second
or two after the offer was made!
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<< <i>As I'm looking at Vern's selection of 1964
Double Struck and Off Center Kennedy's,
I asked some prices......which were too high
for a 20-year old UPS worker/college student;
as I intensely looked at the coins, and said
something like "Thanks, but I don't have that
kind of money", he offered to trade a nice
error coin for my girlfriend!
Of course he was kidding (?), and we had
a good laugh over it, but She never let me
forget the fact that I did hesitate for a second
or two after the offer was made! >>
Now that's funny.
Too many positive BST transactions with too many members to list.
<< <i>My first Long Beach show was as a
collector, about 1969/70, or maybe a year
earlier even.
I went there with my girlfriend, who
had some compassion for my hobby.
She was blonde, beautiful, the whole package.
As I'm walking up and down the aisles,
I stopped at a Denver dealer's table,
Vern Lowe, who had some very spectacular
error coins (Denver Dealer, so no surprise
at that time).
As I'm looking at Vern's selection of 1964
Double Struck and Off Center Kennedy's,
I asked some prices......which were too high
for a 20-year old UPS worker/college student;
as I intensely looked at the coins, and said
something like "Thanks, but I don't have that
kind of money", he offered to trade a nice
error coin for my girlfriend!
Of course he was kidding (?), and we had
a good laugh over it, but She never let me
forget the fact that I did hesitate for a second
or two after the offer was made! >>
Did you marry her?
the decades a bit, but that's about it....
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My first L.B. show was in the mid 1990's where $20 libs were $400 ea by the bushel full.
Should have mortgaged the house
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I had an 1807 half dollar that I couldn't find a match in Overton's 3rd, I posted it on here and Nysoto helped identify it and got the BHNC involved by forwarding pics and discussing. They couldn't find it in the book either and invited me to an in person inspection at the next big west coast show a few weeks later.
I took it to Sheridan Downey's table at the show, and he, Henry Hilgard, Steve Herrman, our own Nysoto (Bill Nyberg), and a few other experts told me it was not only a new variety (marriage), but a new previously undescribed obverse die (12). It is characterized by a weak top of the R in Liberty (LIBEKTY) and a couple of die marks behind the head. It has Rev. B as in O.103 and 0.104
Analysis of die state, edge, dentil count, etc. suggested that it may be among the last known draped bust halves struck, before changing to the capped bust design that same year.
There is a long thread about it, made the cover of Coin World, and Bill wrote the cover story for the JRCS journal. Pretty exciting Long Beach show, tough to top so I haven't gone back..
NGC slabbed it discovery coin and I still have it. It is now O.115 R7+ with 4 currently known, census N20 Disc, P20 Peterson, P12, Gen (the Mohawk hoard coin)
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The convention center was in the old configuration which was a square hall which includes most of the present neighboring hall and we entered from what is now considered the rear of the present hall.
PCGS was new and there were meetings on how sight-unseen trading should work.
UNIGOLD had baskets of fruit at their table and "friendship" banquets on Friday evening.
Long Beach was mostly a boarded-up economic disaster with homeless people everywhere.
I walked away with a Prototype Eisenhower Dollar ($10), a 1974 Mint Set with a DDO Kennedy which graded at MS64 ($5), a 1941-D Jefferson which graded at MS66FS ($10) and a 1941-S Jefferson which graded at MS66FS ($10)
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I'm sure many others here have been to quite a few more than that. How many Long Beach shows have you been to?
If I had it my way, stupidity would be painful!
Decided that FUN was quite interesting so I would do Long Beach (and, nice weather never hurts). Took the wife and kid and let them do Disney while I do the 30+ minutes to the show.
Took them to the show on the last day of the show as I didn't want to be slowed down the first few days.
After FUN, it was a huge letdown. I took ~$3000 in cash and had big eyes. Things were so overpriced or just weren't there for what I was collecting at the time, that I ended up spending $15.
I remember that very well as I was said about it as I had high hopes.
I do remember Val Webb had a booth that he didn't sit at but it had $1000 in original bank wrapped rolls of Franklins. I saw some very cool end roll toners. Me, and another guy, had him paged as we were interested in some of them, but when Val got there, he said they were for sale as a group only. Since (a) I was still new to collecting, (b) I didn't collect Franklins at the time and just wanted some cool toners, and (c) I wasn't someone who sold coins back then, just bought them, I passed. Hindsight being what it is, I would have made out like a bandit just due to the silver value increase. Oh well.
The only other memorable thing about that show was meeting Mark Feld in person.
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