Quad City Coin Club show this Sunday April 8th
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The Quad City Coin Club's Annual Spring Coin Show will be held on Sunday, April 8, 2018 at the Camden Center, 2701 1 st St. E, Milan. Admission is FREE. (The Center is located a short distance south of Milan, Illinois on route 67).
The show will open at 9 a.m. and close at 4 p.m. There will be 80 tables offering US coins, foreign coins, paper money, gold, silver and coin supplies.
Kids will be able to select coins from a world treasure chest and other numismatic items at the door. A youth coin auction will be held at 1:30 p.m. Each participant will receive play money to bid on lots donated by the club members and dealers.
There will be FREE door prizes every hour and a gold raffle at the end of the show. You need not be present to win the gold raffle.
Coin club members will be available to identify coins and paper money, answer questions on coin collecting and the Quad City Coin Club. A lunch stand will be available again at this year's show.
If you are interested in coins or history, come to the show, where you can hold history in your hands.
Louis Armstrong
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We think the kids auction is very beneficial to the future of our hobby. It also teaches kids how to use money. Our members and dealers are generous with their donations as well.
Louis Armstrong
Is there a list of dealers who will be there? Considering going but want to see if it is worth the three hour drive each way.
Sounds like a nice show... but I do not go to NJ (or CA for that matter) for other reasons... Please provide a show report... and if you notice, how bullion is moving. Thank you in advance... Cheers, RickO
The Quad Cities are in Illinois and Iowa. Nationally, Moline is probably the best-known of the four principal towns, but maybe Rock Island is bigger.
Milan is a small burg on the south edge, where the airport is, IIRC.
I attended that show a couple of times about fifteen years ago. I spent the night of the October 1987 Stock market crash at a motel/hotel at that airport. Very odd memory.
This show is in Illinois, right on the Iowa border.
@MorganMan94.... Sorry, was thinking Camden, NJ..... Cheers, RickO
Hey that's only about an hour and a half drive from me. Might have to check it out, although I've been blowing through my coin budget lately.
Collector, occasional seller
Sorry, I don't have a list of all the dealers, but can tell you we have some very good ones. Moline, Illinois is famous for being the home of John Deere Corporate Headquarters. Davenport, Iowa is one of the Quad Cities (Bettendorf, Iowa and Rock Island are the other two besides Moline.). Sliced bread was invented in Davenport and it's the founding home of Chiropractic. Abraham Lincoln was the lawyer representing the railroad when they wanted to place a bridge over the Mississippi river between Davenport and Rock Island (R. I. is famous for a large Federal arsenal there) when the steam boat interests fought against it. Abe won, the bridge was built, but a few weeks later a steamboat caught fire, crashed into the wooden bridge and it collapsed in to the river! There was always a question if the steamboat interests had sacrificed an old boat for this event, but nothing was ever proven.
Jazz cornet legend Bix Beiderebecke was born and raised in Davenport.
Louis Armstrong
I won’t make this one but have been a few times and really enjoyed it. They do a nice job with this show.
RE: "We think the kids auction is very beneficial...."
How many kids are being auctioned? Do they come with return a privilege? How about guarantees?