Well, i'm back from the show. I guess life is easier as a collector, as I get to choose when I leave.
The show seemed rather busy to me! The venue is indeed too small. They need more than 60 tables.
I met 'blu62vette' and 'The Penny Lady'. Charmy had a moody looking 1920 PCGS MS65BN cent. The flash of luster visible under a dark red-burgundy tone. It is going to be a challenge to photograph properly.
I went there with a self-defeating plan. Go look for a Wiener Cathedral medal. When I discover one is not there, I can say I at least tried to spend money, but I come away free and clear, without being broke.
Well, that's not how it went. One of the folks there, Glenn Schinke, had an old silver city scape medal, made in 1735. Geneva, Switzerland. A 59mm medal. Something about a Centennial Restoration. It has exquisite detail. It's surface appears to be in excellent shape for a medal this old. Another challenging item to photograph; i'll have to light it very carefully to show all of the colors. This was the bank-breaker (for me anyway).
And I picked out a handful of other medals that I felt matched my current collection very well. Finished it off with a dirty french gold piece, as I need to get over that $1500 california tax limit. I left the show with nine pieces in all. Only three of which I am allowed to post in the US Coin forum, which I will do once I have photos.
Parking was bizarre. All parking was paid. With a voucher from the show, it was $3. Without a voucher, you could easily pay $18 to park in their lousy little lot.
Talked with Mr. Falcone a bit, but didn't buy anything this time. He's always the most pleasant person to talk to.
I have absolutely no idea. I'd like to know. He was very interested in seeing my photos of this medal all blown up. If he's a member of this forum, he doesn't have to wait until the next show to see them; i'll be later tonight!
Nice guy! Lots of cool stuff! Fun times! He had a broad range of items. What he did not have is giant chunks of bullion silver.
[edit] Mentioned that last bit because...I needed to pad the bill a bit to avoid the CA Tax limit. Had he a giant chunk of bullion silver, I would have bought it too.
Keep in mind, this is only my second coin show, but it was close enough to home that, with no other plans for the day, I couldn't avoid it.
Thanks to Charmy, I picked up a couple of nice IHC's for my just-getting-started Type Set - a beautiful couple of 1864's, one bronze, the other copper, both very nice! Thanks, Charmy, for taking the time to educate me, and your patience. These both will be a very nice addition, and I know right where to go for the next copper!
I didn't go with any more than a desire to see how things were laid out, being pretty green at this as I am. Walking around the bourse, it is clear that there's something for everyone, and everyone's tastes have ample opportunity to be satisfied, and then some.
I could have filled a lot of Morgan holes, too, but gonna have to wait until the next show.
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Well, I must admit, I was very impressed with the show overall. The Doubletree venue is not ever going to be compared with the Convention Center. This San Jose show is completely different and has a feel of the coins shows of the 80's and 90's, very comfortable, very busy; many collectors and dealers with whom I spoke were quite satisfied. There was money to spend and I sold many widgets. The resistance level for the buyers appeared to be $1000. The best feedback from out of town dealers was the show was INSIDE a hotel in which they could stay, again a throwback to the 1990's, and they felt safe and secure.
I picked up a few better Mexican pieces, but not many foreign dealers attended. Gold and silver had slipped a bit, so prices were soft for anything bullion related.
I would rate the new San Jose Show a B+ but not compare it to the old San Jose. In addition, if you wanted to unload $10K+ value coins, this was not the best show for this. However, if you wanted to pick up collector coins in the $500-$1000, this was a good venue since there was a good selection and time to work with each dealer.
One other point. Pay the $3 to park in the Hotel. I heard a dealer say that an antendee has his car towed from the business parking lot across the street.
<< <i>Well, i'm back from the show. I guess life is easier as a collector, as I get to choose when I leave.
The show seemed rather busy to me! The venue is indeed too small. They need more than 60 tables.
I met 'blu62vette' and 'The Penny Lady'. Charmy had a moody looking 1920 PCGS MS65BN cent. The flash of luster visible under a dark red-burgundy tone. It is going to be a challenge to photograph properly.
I went there with a self-defeating plan. Go look for a Wiener Cathedral medal. When I discover one is not there, I can say I at least tried to spend money, but I come away free and clear, without being broke.
Well, that's not how it went. One of the folks there, Glenn Schinke, had an old silver city scape medal, made in 1735. Geneva, Switzerland. A 59mm medal. Something about a Centennial Restoration. It has exquisite detail. It's surface appears to be in excellent shape for a medal this old. Another challenging item to photograph; i'll have to light it very carefully to show all of the colors. This was the bank-breaker (for me anyway).
And I picked out a handful of other medals that I felt matched my current collection very well. Finished it off with a dirty french gold piece, as I need to get over that $1500 california tax limit. I left the show with nine pieces in all. Only three of which I am allowed to post in the US Coin forum, which I will do once I have photos.
Parking was bizarre. All parking was paid. With a voucher from the show, it was $3. Without a voucher, you could easily pay $18 to park in their lousy little lot.
Talked with Mr. Falcone a bit, but didn't buy anything this time. He's always the most pleasant person to talk to.
I thought it was a great show. >>
Falcone is a great guy to talk with
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Nice cozy show. Chatted, sold, bought (found a Fine-ish '96-s Barber Half for the Dansco that's actually not all jacked up), all in an hour and a half. I like Sal Falcone as well. Always happy. His shop on Lincoln is a hoot.
We're all born MS70. I'm about a Fine 15 right now.
San Jose Coin Club did a GREAT JOB with this show.
They heard the comments on the fairground and did something to address the concerns.
Agree on a nice location, albeit a little tight space-wise. When I arrived around 12:30 the walkways were packed and was hard to move around. Also, bourse manager – PLEASE put a little longer ramp over the electric wire bundles, a few older folks were obviously tripping over such.
Word was that though traffic was good, the dollars weren’t quite jumping out of pockets – not completely surprising. Met a new (to me) dealer from Saint Louis, Mark Reid; nice guy with some nice stuff I picked up at a great price (financial paper).
Also spent some time at Mac’s collectibles. Had never bought from them before and enjoyed the pleasant transaction with Dale. Other nice interactions and transactions, as always with Locke, Griffin, Braga and some of the other N.Cal regulars.
Totally agree on positive statements on Sal Falcone. A great asset to the community; tried to convince a couple of us browsing his table to set up tables of our own next time (not that we could get a spot); so he offered consignment. On top of that he remembered a coin (ok, a token) he sold me last time he now wants to buy back HGHER. Now THAT doesn’t happen every day (at least to me).
[oh, Insert shameless plug here for next San Francisco Mint show in April].
One thing I did notice different this show versus all last year was reluctance to take some gold bullion I had in trade. Seems that folks who snapped up every fractional piece and salivated while doing so Last Year, now don’t want more bullion (and this after a healthy $1,000 correction which makes it more affordable.
<< <i>I did mostly wholesale deals...not much retail,as I had coins over 20.00 each. I could have sold tons of silver eagles,but did not bring any.
High point of the show was finally meeting Charmy after seeing her a shows for over 10 years. I even sold her a penny
6 hour drive home in the morning..or 5 hours if I get lucky.
Larry >>
Larry, it was truly a pleasure finally meeting you as well, especially since you were right across from me all weekend! I really like the coin I bought from you, and I look forward to seeing and talking with you at more shows, as well as doing more business with you. Hope to see you in Long Beach!
By the way, my drive home this afternoon/evening was completely opposite of my drive to the show on Thursday. Traffic was smooth and clear, no rain or wind to speak of, had a great book on tape to listen to (The Lovely Bones), and actually enjoyed my drive home - made it in 5 1/2 hours!
I really do like the new venue - it's very convenient, great location, beautiful hotel and rooms, wonderful restaurant, and literally right around the corner from Bay101 Casino! The only negative part is that it's too bad the room isn't larger to accommodate all the dealers that want to set up at this show. Sales-wise, it was not as great as I had expected, but I had a lot of people looking and asking lots of questions. I also made a couple of great purchases, and I was able to give Todd a bunch more coins to photograph - which he's already done and I've even uploaded most of them to my website!
But I'm so glad I have no shows next week so I can regroup before Long Beach!
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The show seemed rather busy to me! The venue is indeed too small. They need more than 60 tables.
I met 'blu62vette' and 'The Penny Lady'. Charmy had a moody looking 1920 PCGS MS65BN cent. The flash of luster visible under a dark red-burgundy tone. It is going to be a challenge to photograph properly.
I went there with a self-defeating plan. Go look for a Wiener Cathedral medal. When I discover one is not there, I can say I at least tried to spend money, but I come away free and clear, without being broke.
Well, that's not how it went. One of the folks there, Glenn Schinke, had an old silver city scape medal, made in 1735. Geneva, Switzerland. A 59mm medal. Something about a Centennial Restoration.
It has exquisite detail. It's surface appears to be in excellent shape for a medal this old. Another challenging item to photograph; i'll have to light it very carefully to show all of the colors. This was the bank-breaker (for me anyway).
And I picked out a handful of other medals that I felt matched my current collection very well. Finished it off with a dirty french gold piece, as I need to get over that $1500 california tax limit. I left the show with nine pieces in all. Only three of which I am allowed to post in the US Coin forum, which I will do once I have photos.
Parking was bizarre. All parking was paid. With a voucher from the show, it was $3. Without a voucher, you could easily pay $18 to park in their lousy little lot.
Talked with Mr. Falcone a bit, but didn't buy anything this time. He's always the most pleasant person to talk to.
I thought it was a great show.
Nice guy! Lots of cool stuff! Fun times! He had a broad range of items. What he did not have is giant chunks of bullion silver.
[edit] Mentioned that last bit because...I needed to pad the bill a bit to avoid the CA Tax limit. Had he a giant chunk of bullion silver, I would have bought it too.
Keep in mind, this is only my second coin show, but it was close enough to home that, with no other plans for the day, I couldn't avoid it.
Thanks to Charmy, I picked up a couple of nice IHC's for my just-getting-started Type Set - a beautiful couple of 1864's, one bronze, the other copper, both very nice! Thanks, Charmy, for taking the time to educate me, and your patience. These both will be a very nice addition, and I know right where to go for the next copper!
I didn't go with any more than a desire to see how things were laid out, being pretty green at this as I am. Walking around the bourse, it is clear that there's something for everyone, and everyone's tastes have ample opportunity to be satisfied, and then some.
I could have filled a lot of Morgan holes, too, but gonna have to wait until the next show.
A Truth That's Told With Bad Intent
Beats All The Lies You Can Invent
<< <i>Adam, is Glenn Schinke our own "Ponyexpress?" >>
Nope that is Glenn Holsonbake
I picked up a few better Mexican pieces, but not many foreign dealers attended. Gold and silver had slipped a bit, so prices were soft for anything bullion related.
I would rate the new San Jose Show a B+ but not compare it to the old San Jose. In addition, if you wanted to unload $10K+ value coins, this was not the best show for this. However, if you wanted to pick up collector coins in the $500-$1000, this was a good venue since there was a good selection and time to work with each dealer.
One other point. Pay the $3 to park in the Hotel. I heard a dealer say that an antendee has his car towed from the business parking lot across the street.
TRUTH
<< <i>Well, i'm back from the show. I guess life is easier as a collector, as I get to choose when I leave.
The show seemed rather busy to me! The venue is indeed too small. They need more than 60 tables.
I met 'blu62vette' and 'The Penny Lady'. Charmy had a moody looking 1920 PCGS MS65BN cent. The flash of luster visible under a dark red-burgundy tone. It is going to be a challenge to photograph properly.
I went there with a self-defeating plan. Go look for a Wiener Cathedral medal. When I discover one is not there, I can say I at least tried to spend money, but I come away free and clear, without being broke.
Well, that's not how it went. One of the folks there, Glenn Schinke, had an old silver city scape medal, made in 1735. Geneva, Switzerland. A 59mm medal. Something about a Centennial Restoration.
It has exquisite detail. It's surface appears to be in excellent shape for a medal this old. Another challenging item to photograph; i'll have to light it very carefully to show all of the colors. This was the bank-breaker (for me anyway).
And I picked out a handful of other medals that I felt matched my current collection very well. Finished it off with a dirty french gold piece, as I need to get over that $1500 california tax limit. I left the show with nine pieces in all. Only three of which I am allowed to post in the US Coin forum, which I will do once I have photos.
Parking was bizarre. All parking was paid. With a voucher from the show, it was $3. Without a voucher, you could easily pay $18 to park in their lousy little lot.
Talked with Mr. Falcone a bit, but didn't buy anything this time. He's always the most pleasant person to talk to.
I thought it was a great show. >>
Falcone is a great guy to talk with
Hong kong/Long Beach JUNE Table #838
MACAU
emgworldwide@gmail.com
Cell: 512.808.3197
EMERGING MARKET GROUP
PCGS, NGC, CCE & NCS, CGC, PSA, Auth. Dealer
I like Sal Falcone as well. Always happy. His shop on Lincoln is a hoot.
They heard the comments on the fairground and did something to address the concerns.
Agree on a nice location, albeit a little tight space-wise. When I arrived around 12:30 the walkways were packed and was hard to move around. Also, bourse manager – PLEASE put a little longer ramp over the electric wire bundles, a few older folks were obviously tripping over such.
Word was that though traffic was good, the dollars weren’t quite jumping out of pockets – not completely surprising. Met a new (to me) dealer from Saint Louis, Mark Reid; nice guy with some nice stuff I picked up at a great price (financial paper).
Also spent some time at Mac’s collectibles. Had never bought from them before and enjoyed the pleasant transaction with Dale. Other nice interactions and transactions, as always with Locke, Griffin, Braga and some of the other N.Cal regulars.
Totally agree on positive statements on Sal Falcone. A great asset to the community; tried to convince a couple of us browsing his table to set up tables of our own next time (not that we could get a spot); so he offered consignment. On top of that he remembered a coin (ok, a token) he sold me last time he now wants to buy back HGHER. Now THAT doesn’t happen every day (at least to me).
[oh, Insert shameless plug here for next San Francisco Mint show in April].
One thing I did notice different this show versus all last year was reluctance to take some gold bullion I had in trade. Seems that folks who snapped up every fractional piece and salivated while doing so Last Year, now don’t want more bullion (and this after a healthy $1,000 correction which makes it more affordable.
Go figure...
I could have sold tons of silver eagles,but did not bring any.
High point of the show was finally meeting Charmy after seeing her a shows for over 10 years.
I even sold her a penny
6 hour drive home in the morning..or 5 hours if I get lucky.
Larry
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<< <i>I did mostly wholesale deals...not much retail,as I had coins over 20.00 each.
I could have sold tons of silver eagles,but did not bring any.
High point of the show was finally meeting Charmy after seeing her a shows for over 10 years.
I even sold her a penny
6 hour drive home in the morning..or 5 hours if I get lucky.
Larry >>
Larry, it was truly a pleasure finally meeting you as well, especially since you were right across from me all weekend! I really like the coin I bought from you, and I look forward to seeing and talking with you at more shows, as well as doing more business with you. Hope to see you in Long Beach!
By the way, my drive home this afternoon/evening was completely opposite of my drive to the show on Thursday. Traffic was smooth and clear, no rain or wind to speak of, had a great book on tape to listen to (The Lovely Bones), and actually enjoyed my drive home - made it in 5 1/2 hours!
I really do like the new venue - it's very convenient, great location, beautiful hotel and rooms, wonderful restaurant, and literally right around the corner from Bay101 Casino! The only negative part is that it's too bad the room isn't larger to accommodate all the dealers that want to set up at this show. Sales-wise, it was not as great as I had expected, but I had a lot of people looking and asking lots of questions. I also made a couple of great purchases, and I was able to give Todd a bunch more coins to photograph - which he's already done and I've even uploaded most of them to my website!
But I'm so glad I have no shows next week so I can regroup before Long Beach!
The Penny Lady®