Well today was the day for the KY Coin Show and boy did I have fun!
While the show lasted till 6pm I left around 3:30 and still had a full day.
This year there were about 6 coin dealers, and 2 knife guys. I did mostly trading with alittle selling! I sold over 2000 wheat cents to one guy and found out later when I got home that I over charged him so I had to track down his name and number and gave him a call and got his address so I can fix that.
I had taken 3 Washington Dollars with no edge lettering---by the end of the day I had 1 left and there was a guy really wanting it but wouldn't pay my price. I sold one to another dealer and within min's he had sold it again for about $30 more!!!
While I didn't pick up anything rare this time I did pick up some nice stuff! Over 50 Silver dimes for under $1 each....a Nickel Planchet (These are harder to find then most people think so I was more than happy to pay a higher price), an off center Jefferson Nickel (1999-D), and a 1875-CC Half Dollar in G, and last but not least an 1988 ASE! I also paid a guy for a coin I had picked up earlier this week....a GEM 1941-S Washington Quarter graded by NGC!
My views on the market now after this small show are these:
1: Mintsets and Proof Sets are not moving....unless you can get the harder to find dates (such as the 1999 Silver) or early years (1955, etc)...forget it.
2: Gold isn't going much either-- (Too $$$)
3: People around here don't keep up on paper money
4: Key dates are still pretty hot...but most people don't want to pay the price!
5: Anything silver will sell pretty much--I took some junk silver and priced it right at spot (or alittle under and it sold it fast), but then I took a Peace Dollar and priced it at $9 and didn't even have a look
6: error coins are HOT....everyone was looking for such...and the Washington no edge dollars go pretty nice
All in all I would go to this show even if I didn't sell one dime---its worth it to see the coins from the different guys and talk and learn alittle from each one. Again this year I saw a complete set of dimes from 1916-1945! The guy was asking $1k total but the 21D had been cleaned, and the 1916-D was a NET gradee became of rim damage. Otherwise it was a nice VG coin!! Also this year I saw fakes......and people who think their coin is worth $1,000,000.00 +!
I was able to get alittle work done on the varietynickels.com website and have some photos up to where they can be viewed now on the date guide. Right now I think only 3-5 maybe are open for viewing but there are many, many more to come!!!
Wish I could have met some of y'all from CT! A dealer friend and I were talking how we need to get a coin show started alittle closer to Lexington KY. That being a big town and such and not too far away to drive might be a good choice for a show sometime.
Have a great night! I'll try to post some photos soon!!!
Speedy
Can I ask were the fakes on sale as fakes or someone trying to pass them off as genuine?
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