September 2026 Gettysburg Show Report
MICHAELDIXON
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The Gettysburg Show was a HUGE success! First, ajaan and his wife visited on Friday and Saturday. I have dealt with him since 1989 via mail order whenever I was in Hawaii and from the boards since. It was a pleasure to meet him and Kelly in person after almost 30 years! I wanted to introduce them to everybody, and I hope I did not embarrass them. I felt like a kid introducing my family.
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Sales at the show was unimaginable! Many people who sell on WhatNot came in to purchase coins to sell. Those of you that know me, know I am loud sometimes. One young man was bringing in a medium empty plastic tote and I asked him if he was going to fill it with coins. He said he planned to and on Saturday, he had bought enough coins, sets, bullion and rolls to fill up 4 totes.
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My philosophy is: "If there are customers at a dealer's table at closing, we do not close the doors until the sale is finished." One dealer had 3 gentlemen and a child at his table at 5pm on Friday and he wanted to know if I would let him finish the sale. Of course I did! Whenever the customers left at 6:05pm, they had spent $61,000!
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Everything was selling! Gold bullion, silver bullion, Morgan dollars, collector coins, proof sets, mint sets, wheat cent rolls, foreign, and I do mean everything was selling. One dealer told me he brought 13 double row boxes of slabs and had sold all the slabs from 9 double row boxes. Another dealer said he was wiped out of all the gold he brought. An ancient dealer sold everything he brought on Friday. This was the most phenomenal show I have seen since the gold and silver runup of 1979-1980!
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All the dealer tables were sold, and I had to put ANACS and the ANA Representative at tables in the hall. I did not have a dealer table at this show. I did purchase an 1872 5c in XF, an 1874 5c in XF and an 1875 in XF for my Shield nickel book.
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There were zero security problems at this show. Dirk, Keith, Steve and Fred did a wonderful job. The public only sees one in uniform, but there is at least one in plain clothes walking the floor at all times. This was Fred's first coin show and he really enjoyed it. He said he didn't comprehend the size of the show, the number of customers and the dollar amount of coins for sale.
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As always, the food was standard hotel food. It was good, expensive and nothing to write about.
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Thank you to all the collectors, dealers and others who make the Gettysburg Show a success! The Reeded Edge from Cumberland, Maryland always brings something for everybody to see! Thanks, Rob and Robbie. https://reedededge.com/
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Please show us your Shield nickels.
Most excellant, im happy it went well👍
Wow! Quite a report!
We had a great time finally meeting up with @MICHAELDIXON after all these years. Mike puts on a good show in Gettysburgh. Many dealers with a variety of coins, although it seemed 80% of the slabbed coins were Morgan Dollars.
I came looking for an original F-VF Seated Dollar. I've seen so many of these have been cleaned even though in TPG straight graded holders. I did see on common date in a PCGS F15 holder but the seller was asking $700 for it which is greater than PCGS price grade in VF. So I passed.
I wanted to sell a roll of pre-1921 non cull Morgans but was offered $820, $840, and $900 for the roll. I passed and placed the roll online and within 4 hours it sold for $1030.
I did purchase a few Indian Cents, one ANACS and two raw. My other purchases were World Coins. Overall, my wife and I had a good time meeting everyone Mike knew and we had fine weather for our tour of the battlefield. It was well worth the 6 1/2 hour trip. Hopefully we can make a future show.
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Don
This is nice to hear... Gettysburg will likely be my "local show" in retirement... is there a website for the next one? Thanks...
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Don
Hated to miss this fall. Have always liked this show (and the drive to Gettysburg from my house in Northern Va).
I’ll look forward to being back in the Spring!