Anyone going to the Fremont, Cal. show this weekend?

SanctionII · March 29, 2007 8:52AM

Saturday and Sunday.

Just a local show, but I have had fun attending and will do so on Sunday for a few hours.

Coxe · March 29, 2007 9:20AM

Thought about using it as a lame excuse to drive up north for a few days. Probably won't though.

Fletcher · March 29, 2007 9:21AM

I'll go ... do you have an address? It will give me another chance to see WTCG ... man, that guy is everywhere

Coxe · March 29, 2007 9:27AM

<< <i>I'll go ... do you have an address? It will give me another chance to see WTCG ... man, that guy is everywhere

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SATURDAY MARCH 31st 10am - 5pm
SUNDAY APRIL 1st 11am - 4pm

ELKS HALL
38991 Farwell Drive
(I-880, exit Mowry Avenue east, left at first light)
Fremont, California

FREE ADMISSION
FREE PARKING

http://www.coinshows.com/fremont_ncna.html

Cladiator · March 29, 2007 9:56AM

Can't make it this time.

Fletcher · March 29, 2007 10:03AM

Thanks for the info

BECOKA · March 29, 2007 10:09AM

Sorry, I can only commit to a couple of shows. I will be sharing a table at the next Santa Clara show mostly to meet people from the boards and other dealing. I think it will be fun to mingle with other coin folk for four days.

CarlWohlforth · March 29, 2007 10:11AM

I keep thinking I will get a table at a show like that for my first table. Not this time though... I may drop by.

WTCG · March 29, 2007 11:03AM

I will have a table there. I should be there both days, provided that there aren't delays getting back from Boston on Friday night.

alfalfa · March 29, 2007 12:11PM

I'll be there Saturday searching for fractional currency.

RJ

dogwood · March 29, 2007 12:40PM

Yup. 12 miles up the road. Just a tease before the Santa Clara show. Just got back from H&R Block today, though so I won't be doing much buying. Let's see 90 days past April 17 is......
Yeah, Ill do some buying.

anoldgoat · March 29, 2007 2:16PM

25 miles up the road for me. I will if I get back from a Saturday wedding in Sacto.

Fletcher · March 30, 2007 12:11PM

Going tomorrow. I'm going to try to turn another box of 20 au58s in to a single WOWZER coin ... or another Fugio variety that I don't have (I am addicted to those things)

SanctionII · March 31, 2007 7:26AM

ttt, any reports about the show yet?

Fletcher · March 31, 2007 7:35AM

I just returned from the Fremont Show about 15 minutes ago ... small show (45 tables) but bustling with activity. All of the dealers were busy and I had to wait whenever I wanted to see anything. There were Morgans, but not oodles of them ... almost no colonials, early copper, or Barbers. A fair amount of gold and more dealers selling uncertified coins than I have seen before. Seemed like a lot of seated material and quasi-moderns (1940s - 1960s). I spent about two and a half hours there and had a great time.

I spent a full hour with John McIntosh and picked up a nice piece of copper from him ... it is in a NGC holder, but I am sure that it will cross. Excuse the horrible scan, the coin is much lighter in color and has excellent surfaces ... in fact, two other people came back to buy it while I was sitting at his table. And, yes, I flipped him for the price ... and he won

Coxe · March 31, 2007 8:41AM

Here your coin is better represented, Fletcher.

Fletcher · April 1, 2007 6:56AM

Anyone go today?

SanctionII · April 1, 2007 9:36AM

Yes, I went today. Spent from 11 am to about 1:45 pm. Most of my time spent at the show was with Skyman. We have a common interest in CAM Frankies and both live in the Bay Area. So we met. Had a great time with show and tell. He has some awesome CAM and DCAM slabbed Frankies. He also showed me some of his Battle Creek slabbed Morgans. WOW, talk about great looking toners.

Afterwards I broused the bourse for about 30 minutes. Saw some nice coins, but many were seriosuly overpriced (i.e. $40.00 for a 1960 widge proof set and $900.00 for a widger 1950 proof set). Had no real interest in sticking around and spending money. So I left without a single purchase.

JSsson · April 1, 2007 4:50PM

I really wanted to go to this show, and I have been the last few times, but I couldn't make it because of a schedule conflict. Other than Sanction II, is there anybody else who attended, and are there any other show reports?

SkyMan · April 2, 2007 11:09AM

I went yesterday and met Sanction II. He had a bunch of really nice raw cameos of the 1950-70 era. In particular I really liked his Franklin set and his SMS set. To find them out of raw sets in todays era is a VERY tough job and he found some really nice ones.

Wandering around the bourse there wasn't much that was particularly interesting. Wei had a nice NGC MS63* 1884-CC reverse toner, and a really pretty 1939(?) Mercury proof toner, but they were out of my range for an impulse buy. There was a 1951-S Franklin in NGC MS65 that had some quite nice toning, but the dealer wanted too much for it.

Back in the late 1980's early 1990's I built a complete set of Peace dollars in (rattler) PCGS MS64/65. Many of them would have upgraded a point by today's standards. I sold the set in the mid 1990's, but have always liked the Peace dollar design. When a show is a total bust I'll stop by a couple dealers tables and see what sort of raw Peace dollars they've got, generally purchasing them in the AU58 to MS63 range. I am not a VAM kind of guy, I just like the design... they are big hunks of silver, and you can always walk away from a show with a pretty generic piece or two for dirt cheap.

I stopped at John McIntosh's table and found several Peace dollars that caught my eye. I ended up buying two, a 1934-D in ~MS62 that had some doubling on the obverse face. Last night several board members, notably Pharmer, were kind enough to help me find the vamworld.com site and attribute the piece for me. It turned out to be a VAM-3 medium-D DDO. The second Peace dollar I got was a 1921 with booming luster and the BEST frigging strike I've seen in a Looooooong time... full hair on the obverse and full feathers where the legs attach to the body on the reverse. It had a noticeable scratch on the cheek/jaw though so it would not grade better than a 62. Still, with the luster and the strike it was a definite keeper.

I looked at the 2 coins when I got home and noticed something on the 1921 in the light that I had not noticed at the show. You know how the eagles on Peace dollars will often have a "halo" around them caused by the metal movement? Hidden in it directly ABOVE the eagle's back was some very well done toolwork. P#SSED me off. The coin was a no brainer unc coin with a great strike... even if there was a h#llacious ding on the reverse at most it would have dropped the coin to a 60, and due to the ding on the cheek/jaw it would never go higher than a 62. So some chowderhead (although I will grant you a quite talented chowderhead), has screwed up one of the rare 1921's with a REALLY good strike for at most $20 or so. Given the amount of time tooling like that must take I can't believe it was worth his time.

I talked to John MacIntosh about it this morning on the phone and he was willing to give me a full refund no questions asked. I'd like to publicly thank him for doing so. There are enough times that we all complain about bad dealers. I think it is important we talk about good dealers too when they stand behind their product. Truth be told, I'm not sure if I'll return the 1921 or not because it does have a VERY nice strike for the date, and the luster is really sweet too, ah well, have to figure that out by the Santa Clara show.

oxy8890 · April 2, 2007 11:30AM

John Macintosh is a great guy and an honest dealer. If you like to gamble he will always flip you for a discount.

Anyone going to the Fremont, Cal. show this weekend?

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