A real, live coin show is coming Saturday June 6!!!
erwindoc
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Just got the email that they are having the monthly coin show in Knoxville, TN this month. Its typically a small monthly show, but as far as I know its the first one since the pandemic has brought everything to a halt! Hopefully, the Mrs. will be willing to let me go for a bit!
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That's exciting news. Hope you can give us a show report with pics. Have fun and wash your hands. Peace Roy
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I cannot think a more difficult place to "distance" than a coin show.
Please remember that masks and gloves do not protect you from infection if you are too close to someone infected.
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I wish them luck!
Awesome! I may just have to show up...
@erwindoc is there a link where others can view? My Saturday night is freed up.
edit: I misread the OP announcement, it is an ACTUAL show.
https://www.coinshows-usa.com/Knoxville-Coin-Currency-Show
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Great news! Hopefully the "snowball" effect will take place? Fingers crossed.
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--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.Great news... I hope it is the precursor to the rest of the shows opening up....Show reports please to those lucky enough to attend....from either side of the tables. Cheers, RickO
I wonder if I could attend in a hazmat suit?
The monthly Greater Atlanta Coin Show was cancelled in April and May but so far the June show is scheduled for June 14 assuming nothing comes that would cause it to be cancelled.
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Only if you have a picture of a coin on the suit.
Oooooooh what are the dates? Can you post a link? I’m going.
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I'm not going but Bob told me he could sell my table. I'm just not seeing it this early with all that has been going on! Are you going???
I would like to go to a show but I would need a larger show to find anything on my want list.
At least the average coin show attendee is well outside the at-risk demographic
Yes remember to wash your hands and not your coins!
Mustard is a preventative....and keep a silver dime under your partial.
In our area the number of total
Covid cases recorded since March accounts for 0.01% of the population. Active cases are around 0.003%.
My guess is they will restrict how many people are in the area at any time.
Remember to gargle with acetone before and after the show, you'll be fine. (of course I'm kidding - before I get a crazy response)
This is GREAT news!!
Enjoy!!
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Not sure yet. The numbers in Georgia since they opened up look good so far. Lots of restaurant dining rooms open; Home Depot. Lowes, Sam's, COSTCO etc. all look busier than this show, never mind Cobb & Cherokee parks and trails.
I'm not looking for anything in particular at the moment but I do enjoy a short visit with several of the dealers there, including you. So..... maybe I'll stop by.
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
Bring disposable gloves? Just a thought for an extra layer of protection. Good luck to the attendees.
Given the density of people in grocery stores and Lowes....
@erwindoc Please report, how was it?
I can't see myself going to a show anytime soon but I am interested in the report.
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If there's no pandemic bounce in Atlanta that might give me confidence that this thing is on the way out. Is the show actually in Atlanta?
The show this thread was about is Knoxville,Tn. The 1 day Atlanta show is next Sunday.(actually Marietta which is pretty much Atlanta)
I wasn’t able to go unfortunately. I had another major expense I had to take care of, lol.
I didn't make it either. Im sure it went off without a hitch though!
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Show report. I put the Knoxville show on each month. I thought long and hard about having the show. My thoughts on it are we need to have our lives back. We need to use common sense when interacting with others in public. We also need to realize each region of the country is different and should use common sense accordingly.
Mask and gloves were optional for dealers and public (we live in a free country)! I did strongly suggest that dealers bring a mask and personal hand sanatizer. The host facility supplied multiple hand sanatizer station for the public. I had a dealer bring me a full pack of mask to give attendees if they so wanted one.
Everyone needs to attend if they personally feel comfortable being there. I had two regular dealers that held off beginning there because they didn't feel comfortable being at the show. I told them I completely understand and their table would be waiting for them when decide to return. We all have to be personally responsible for ourselves and don't belittle others for their thoughts on the virus.
My personal thoughts are the smaller shows can and will be the beginning of getting the coin shows going again. I don't think I would be attending a larger show because of all of the traffic it would generate. Especially one in the northeast. This was the hot spot of the virus.
We had a great show that was well attended by dealers and public. There were 20 dealers. We had local shop owners coming through looking to buy material for their shops. Shop owners are saying that people are currently buying more than what the shop can buy through the door. We had a couple of dealers from the show circuit walking the floor buying inventory. They were happy just to be at a show.
Some of the public thought the dealers were trying to charge to much for silver and gold. They are out of touch with the premiums that are on metals at this point.
Collector coins were selling well along with currency. Overall it was a great show. The traffic died basically by 1-1:30. Over the last year, our attendance has been pretty solid up to about 2:30-3 o'clock.
All in all I think it was a great show and we will be back on July 11th.
We were visited by our local news paper. The link below is the pictures they posted.
If you have questions, please ask. I am not on the forum a lot. But will try to remember to check back in over the next few days.
https://www.knoxnews.com/picture-gallery/news/2020/06/06/scenes-from-the-monthly-knoxville-coin-and-currency-show-at-rothchild-conference-center/3163979001/
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Thanks for the link. That looks like a lot of fun and I can't wait to get back to to a live show.
Big surprise seeing Richard in the pics! He told me he was retiring!
Nice to hear that the show went on okay. All shows around me are still a no go, but hopefully in July they will start up. I have had the jitters for the last couple months since there have been no shows to go to.
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I am glad to hear it went well. Hopefully the online coverage brings more customers around next time.
It seems like reasonable decisions were made in terms of holding a show where people can attend if they want
and choose their level of protection.
I feel slightly bad in saying this, but it seems like a couple of the people in this photo from the middle
of the page look like they do not realize they are in a high risk group.
I hope it turns out OK for them.
I was leary of the coverage at first. But after speaking with the reporter, he had no ill intent toward our gathering.
Masks are not mandatory? I see noone is wearing anything.
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Hopefully nobody passing through had the Covid. If so looks like quite a few will be dealing with it soon. Mostly high risk crowd too. SMH.
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I would not feel safe attending a show with no masks required. Of course, most of the people that I see at the store do not wear masks either.
For instance, when you go to the doctor's office where I live, you are required to wear a mask for the safety of others. It is a condition of entry.
Of course you live in a free country. But it does not let you enter anywhere that you want if you do not meet the private establishment's conditions of entry. No mask, no entry, no exceptions.
A mask is for the safety of others. I do not care to be around coughing, sneezing, loud talking collectors not wearing a mask.
It is an individual freedom of choice decision, but I certainly would not attend a coin show now for the reasons listed above.
It’s all about where people are and what the current situation is. As of yesterday, Knox County has seen a total of 494 cases out of 500,000 people, 5 deaths, and 393 recoveries with 3 currently hospitalized. 10s of thousands of tests already done at this point.
Absolutely people shouldn’t attend a show if they are high risk or simply want to minimize their exposure. Makes perfect sense. The county health department and state health department both strongly encourage people who fall into those categories to take extra precautions.
At the end, though, this is a small show and it’s not like 10s of thousands are walking through the doors.
A coin show> @mkman123 said:
A coin show on June 6 and no masks are required. Great idea, you all go first.
Rob, thanks for the report it was very informative and interesting.
So far numbers in GA are looking good. Voted this morning and no masks required. WHO says asystematic spread is very rare (which probably translates to it doesn't happen). If you feel sick stay home, that goes for COVID-19 or any other contagious disease. If you feel uncomfortable going out in public stay home. If you feel you may put others at risk stay home. If you feel others may put you at risk stay home.
If you don't feel uncomfortable buying a bag of flour or a can of beans at your local market that who knows how many other customers have handled or buying a tomato plant at Home Depot that has more people in the store than have ever been there since it opened go ahead and have fun at a small local coin show, otherwise stay home.
If you don't feel uncomfortable going through the drive-thru and picking up to-go prepared by someone you can't even see or getting a Door-Dash delivery from some guy you've never seen before and hope you never see again that was out partying last night go ahead and have fun at a small local coin show, otherwise stay home.
It's a free country, or at least it was the last time I checked. Go or don't go, your choice.
I think I just may have talked myself into stopping by at the Atlanta show.
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I’m in the medical profession and I think I’m in the middle personally as far as masks, social distancing, and staying at home goes. I think it’s a huge mistake for older people and people with underlying medical problems to be at a coin show today regardless of numbers. Numbers change every week. Look at the number of new cases in Mississippi and how one rural hospital is being overwhelmed.
I think everyone would agree that anyone who is concerned, at high risk, or have other factors should take extra precautions. Of course, now this thread is deviating from the original purpose. Perhaps let the thread go quietly lest it devolve like the other threads do. For my part, I’ll end my participation here.
Boy, that was really nice coverage from your local press !
There were some that had them on.
We all shall see in about a week or so. Will they're be relief or REGRET? Fingers crossed for all attendees.
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--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.Good job holding this show. I dont care about masks myself so i would have gone if i lived closer
Tommy44 posted: WHO says asystematic spread is very rare (which probably translates to it doesn't happen).
I think you meant "asymptomatic spread." That statement about spread of Covid19 was made by a WHO official at a news conference who afterwords amended her comments with this:
"The majority of transmission that we know about is that people who have symptoms transmit the virus to other people through infectious droplets,” Van Kerkhove said. “But there are a subset of people who don’t develop symptoms, and to truly understand how many people don’t have symptoms, we don’t actually have that answer yet.”
This is important because there are documented instances of people without symptoms (or with minimal symptoms) who spread the virus to multiple people. This typically involved a situation with multiple people in an enclosed space who were exposed. (coin show?)
I am a primary care physician on the front lines of this thing. It is no joke. One of my associates for the past 17 years contracted it and was homebound for 3 weeks. She was in agony the whole time. She is also the most germophobic person I know and always wore an N95 mask, goggles, and sanitized like crazy. And she still caught it, probably from a patient. I saw a patient for a "routine" office visit who admitted to GI symptoms , the next day she was in the hospital, and she was dead within the week.
It is worrisome to me that in the photo above I don't see anyone wearing a mask. It looks like people are distancing, for the most part, but of course passing fomites (coin slabs) back and forth so I hope they made use of the available hand sanitizer.
Masks and distancing definitely reduce the transmission of the virus, and I hope that anyone who chooses to attend a coin show will wear a mask (mostly to protect your fellow collectors) and observe distancing.
As for Tennessee, if you go to the JohnsHopkins website on covid 19, you will see that cases are steadily increasing. This is even more reason to be careful.
I care about the health of everyone on this forum. Covid 19 does not care about your politics, gender, race, or anything else. I do urge you to have an idea of your overall health. For instance, people with diabetes and chronic kidney disease are at high risk, but these disorders often have no symptoms and must be diagnosed with lab tests. So, if you haven't had a checkup with labs in the last year or so and are over age 60, I encourage you to see your clinician and have an exam with basic labs.
If you are immune suppressed, due to meds or disease, stay home.
I felt I had to post this as a physician who practices preventive health care. I won't post about this any more, and hope the mods will tolerate my apolitical comments. I just don't want any of you to contract this dangerous infection. Take care my friends.