Hello everyone, first post here, formerly a CW forum member. I decided to jump onto ed zak's post instead of opening a new FUN post if it's alright
I want to confirm & verify all posted so far by the visitors to the FUN so and my thoughts and feelings on my experiences today--I just got back from the show & decided this is as good as any reason to jump into the forum
time to quit lurking--
WOW--look at all the tables/booths!!!!--Impressive. This is my first visit to such a large show as this so that was my first impression when I walk in--My first decision was, do I wanna go right or left? We went to the right- As we walked, I immediately noticed that there were lotsa slabbed coins, overwhelming was the amounts of morgans & peace dollars that were slabbed. But as you wandered in, you can see that you could buy what ever you want--TONS of raw coins in all states, junk, xf, au, ms stuuf everywhere--Also, the prices for ms63/64 surprised me at how reasonable they were 40-65 dollars for super nice common stuff--
As I wandered about, I started to notice a pattern of, look at all the paper!!, there was more paper booths than I expected, and you name it I believe I saw every bill ever made in usa and other countries--
My first serious stop & purchase was at the Canadian Mint tables, since it caught my wife's eye, we wandered on over there. She and the kids were immediately impressed with the hologram coins-(BTW, the guys at this booth were the MOST friendliest in the place, even tho everyone was very nice and courteous) & they were the only people that gave away freebies. They gave my daughter a teddy bear & a bottle of water, gave her boyfreind a bottle of water, (water sells for $1.75 to $2.50 per bottle), they gave each of us a USA Commemorative Medallion struck in cupro-nickel Celebrate 225 years of Life, Liberty & happiness for FREE!! a $10 value AND a press florida quater fun show medal I guess it is--This was given even BEFORE they knew 100% I was gonna buy something--I purchased 1 ea of: 2003 Silver Maple Leaf Hologram Set 5-coins, 2004 Special Edition Packaging ANA Proof Set Limited to 500 sets (I have #0205) 8-coins & 2005 Specimen Set of Canadian Coinage 7-coins, all in original "sealed" government packaging-total cost?? $203.00--
I sold: 1 1996 Proof Prestige Set & 1 Gold 1924 St Gaudens in bezel (it was cleaned) So I walked out with more moeny than I walked in kewl eh?
Now to what I learned--this sorta depressed me sum
--No Silver Eagle tables ANYWHERE..Was not able to find any SAE in ms, found sporadic Proofs esp in OGP, donno what that tells you, but it alarmed me--What do you think it means? (I have my thouhgts but I wanna haer yawls feedback before I reply--To continue on what I learned--Paper moeny is more popular than I believed, and 2 MORGANs MORGANS MORGANS--finally GOLD--guys OLD gold is the ticket--I believe I have been collecting the WRONG stuff---so to me this visit has reawaken my feeling from when I was younger, now I know why I love Saints so much---I'm collecting the wrong stuff...So Ima gonna start to sell off my high end stuff from my current collection, and see what I wanna get into, morgans are on the list, but it looks like more n more that I'll probably start seriously back into gold--
