Show Report -- Burlington, VT 2/26/06
mirabela
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I drove down from the Northeast Kingdom this morning in blowing snow & negative temperatures to attend this show. The last time I was there, I think there were around eight tables, and it wasn't very crowded. There were roughly a dozen dealers today, and floor traffic was much busier. There was a surprisingly decent range of stuff there, from the usual cheapies to some five-figure eye candy in one guy's case. Prices, when I bothered to find them out, seemed all over the place, from stupidly cheap to stupidly expensive. The things I bought were all around where I thought they would be.
I had a good time talking with Tim Puro (VTCoins on here) & looking through his cases & boxes. My purchase highlights of the day came from him; two are pictured below. For those of you who don't know Tim, he's a good guy; my deals with him in both directions have been very satisfactory, and he carries some nice stuff in a wide range of series.
I walked away with a ziploc baggie full of coins raw & slabbed, from four or five different sellers, including a few things for my 7070, a nice unc Peace dollar for my nephew and another for my daughter, some mint-set toned Washingtons, and a dozen or so Jeffersons.
The only bummer of the day was running into a creepy guy who tried to hit on me when I was eleven years old. He has reinvented himself as a coin dealer, evidently. Yuck!
My three big observations for the day are:
1. Twenty cent pieces grow on trees, but pleasant ones do not. Even at this tiny show, there were at least a dozen of them present. I only liked two, though. I took one home. See below.
2. If you like pretty, gem unc coins with a wide variety of looks and you don't want to spend much dough, Jefferson nickels are a really fun series. I've had a complete set (big deal!) for a long time, but I just recently started upgrading & consciously seeking really nice coins. I broke my "nothing above $5" rule a number of times today for some smashingly pretty coins in the 1938-1950 run. Reckoned in terms of quality per dollar spent, you just can't beat these.
3. Decent looking better-circ with-motto seated halves are actually pretty scarce. There's tons of the no-motto stuff around, but even the common dates in the 1870's in XF seem to be in hiding.
I had a good time talking with Tim Puro (VTCoins on here) & looking through his cases & boxes. My purchase highlights of the day came from him; two are pictured below. For those of you who don't know Tim, he's a good guy; my deals with him in both directions have been very satisfactory, and he carries some nice stuff in a wide range of series.
I walked away with a ziploc baggie full of coins raw & slabbed, from four or five different sellers, including a few things for my 7070, a nice unc Peace dollar for my nephew and another for my daughter, some mint-set toned Washingtons, and a dozen or so Jeffersons.
The only bummer of the day was running into a creepy guy who tried to hit on me when I was eleven years old. He has reinvented himself as a coin dealer, evidently. Yuck!
My three big observations for the day are:
1. Twenty cent pieces grow on trees, but pleasant ones do not. Even at this tiny show, there were at least a dozen of them present. I only liked two, though. I took one home. See below.
2. If you like pretty, gem unc coins with a wide variety of looks and you don't want to spend much dough, Jefferson nickels are a really fun series. I've had a complete set (big deal!) for a long time, but I just recently started upgrading & consciously seeking really nice coins. I broke my "nothing above $5" rule a number of times today for some smashingly pretty coins in the 1938-1950 run. Reckoned in terms of quality per dollar spent, you just can't beat these.
3. Decent looking better-circ with-motto seated halves are actually pretty scarce. There's tons of the no-motto stuff around, but even the common dates in the 1870's in XF seem to be in hiding.
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I love reading these reports from different areas of the country.
Anyone wants a few nice cheapie mint set washies, let me know. I held back the one I liked the best & one for my nephew, but I've got three of them here you can have for what I paid + postage. 1960, 63, and 63-D, all 64-ish.