Charmy's SEATTLE/TUKWILA Show Report (with lots of pics)!

Let me start out by saying, in case you didn't already know, that as beautiful and pristine as Seattle (and the surrounding area) is, Seattle is VERY COLD!!!!! It's even colder than Baltimore was, but this SoCal gal is a huge cold WIMP! As much as I love trees and mountain beauty, I still much prefer the 120 degree Havasu-desert-boating-on-a beautiful-cool-lake climate over this 30-degree-frost-covered-scraping-windshields-frosty-breath coldness! It didn't help that my table is set up right next to the huge open door loading area which made it feel like I was sitting outside. OK, enough whining, now on to show stuff.

My brother Paul lives here (he too was born and raised in SoCal so I don't know how he ever acclimated to the Seattle climate, but he does love it here). Any way, right after I arrived here in Seattle, Paul (who works for Expedia) took me to Frys to help me pick out what I call my new "show" notebook - it's a 10" laptop that I will take to shows instead of my regular laptop which will stay at home safe and sound. Yes, I also back up my laptop up but I feel safer having a separate travel notebook that doesn't contain everything my home laptop does but still has the the things I use on the road, and of course all my coin photos! I thought about getting an iPad-type device but just couldn't get used to the virtual keyboard that I would need to input information on my Excel inventory, so I went with the tiny Dell notebook. My brother is setting it up for me - yippee!



So I arrived at the show pretty early since Paul had a meeting at work and dropped me off around 7am. Set up went smoothly (except of course for it being 20 degrees below zero - I had to keep wrapping my hands around my lamps to keep warm, ok, sorry for the whining...). Then I did some quick shopping. I bought some more beautiful Conder tokens for my collection (including another white metal Conder - a Red Lion Inn), as well as several nice better date Indians for inventory, AND a beautiful AU 1877 Indian cent!



The show opened at noon - I took a couple photos of what the bourse looked like about 2 hours into the show



Several CU forum members stopped by and I actually remembered to take some of their pictures (a couple I had to ask pretty please!).

lil ol me


A usual suspect - Glen/PonyExpress


A fellow Bob Dylan fan - Dennis88


Our show's guest speaker - John/Pistareen


Jeremy/Airplanenut


Jackrabbit


Seattleslammer


Jeff


Jerry Bobby


I'm headed out to dinner with my brother and his girlfriend, so gotta wrap this up - more tomorrow!

 

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Where's your great picts?
Glad u had a good time.

 

You must mean the photos of my "after hours" event that I usually post? Well, since I'm staying with my brother and I don't get to see him very often, my after show time will be focused on spending time with Paul and his girlfriend. So right now, for instance, we're all cuddled up on couches in the living room watching American Idol on tv!

Now come next week at the Santa Clara show, there will surely be some gambling, drinking, and well.... we'll just have to wait and see!

 

Always nice to see your summaries Charmy. Good call on opting for the Dell nb, the only difference between it and an apple is:
1 - dell's are built by Foxconn on the 4th floor, apples are built by foxconn on the 3rd floor of the same building.
2 - apple's premiums are 20%, Dell's are around 9%.
Still amazes me how apple doesn't build anything and gets away with those premiums.... they are essentially nothing more than a corn broker in the US, except they broker electronics built by others in Asia back to the US...... and everyone thinks they "create" those things themselves. Ahhh, the sheeple... gotta love those sheeple. Baaaaaaaa, baaaaaaaaaaa.

 

Why, Charmy, I didn't know you were a boating Havasu girl. Thats practically my back yard!
Guy

 

It was a really beautiful day and when we drove home yesterday, I could see Mt. Rainier so clearly, it was quite spectacular! I guess I just take the sunshine for granted. Here's a picture I took from the car - even though it's in the distance, you can see how pretty Mt. Rainier is.



My brother lives in Maple Valley right near the Green River (yes, THAT Green River), so I took a couple photos from the car as we drove along the river to show how pretty the area is. As you can see, it is back to being cloudy, but still very very pretty.





And here is the street that the coin show is on - also right on the Green River.



It's just after 11am and the show is quite crowded. More later.

 

You spelled it wrong, it's tequila, and I hate it.

Just kidding. The little laptop you bought is referred to as a netbook.

 

Netbook/Notebook - tomato/tomoto

Today has been another incredibly busy day. It's just now (4pm) starting to thin out. I've had some great sales, including a beautiful 1955/55 PCGS MS64 and two 1909-S Indian cents. Other than a few rolls rolls of lower end Indian and wheat cents, I haven't bought anything, though I haven't had a chance to walk the floor at all yet.

Here are some shots of the bourse taken around 11am - despite my photos of the bourse from yesterday during a slow time, this is what it looked like yesterday too!



I haven't seen any CT members, but I did have the pleasure of chatting with several more CU forum members who stopped by today. Bochiman and Swampboy hung out with me for a little while, and I was honored to have my photo taken with Laksamman and Bochiman! (It's a little blurry but my neighbor took it, so it's not only me that is photo inept!)



High Relief and his pretty wife also stopped by, and they even brought me TWO bottles of tasty Washington wine (what sweathearts they are!) - I can't wait to have some!


BillyGoat


Dave99


Tonight I'm off to dinner with Paul and Vicki and a couple of their friends too and I'm looking forward to having some of High Relief's wine! I'll be here all day tomorrow too, so be sure to stop by if you make it to the show!

 

Great updates! Keep em a coming. Thanks

 

Nice report. Man, I wish it would get cold out here with snow, it RARELY gets below 65 degrees. When I went to Colorado, it was pretty cold with snow. I can remember being outside and leaving trails of smoke behind me, it was around 0 F. But I love that 1877 Indian, as my next huge purchase, I'm still having trouble deciding between an 09-S VDB and a 1877 Indian.

 

Great write=up on your coin show happenings and on this one I actually know someone which makes it double good. It's Jeff Shevlin I hope that's spelled right! He's in my coin club and had a great presentation on the Panama Pacific Int'l Expo. WTG Charmy another home run!!

http://so-calleddollar.com/DollarSite/Default.aspx

 

Saturday was another incredibly busy day. It's only started to thin out around 4pm. I had some great sales, including a beautiful 1955/55 PCGS MS64 and two 1909-S Indian cents. Other than a few rolls rolls of lower end Indian and wheat cents, I haven't bought anything, though I haven't had a chance to walk the floor at all yet.

Here are some shots of the bourse taken around 11am - this is what it looked like yesterday too!



I had the pleasure of chatting with several more CU forum members who stopped by today. Bochiman and Swampboy hung out with me for a little while, and I was honored to have my photo taken with Laksamman and Bochiman! (It's a little blurry but my neighbor took it, so it's not only me that is photo inept!)



High Relief and his pretty wife also stopped by, and they even brought me TWO bottles of tasty Washington wine (what sweathearts they are!) - I can't wait to have some!



BillyGoat


Dave99


Then on Saturday night, my brother Paul, his girlfriend Vicki, and a couple other friends went to Mizu (sp?) which is a Bennihana-type restaurant where the chef prepares your food right in front of you. Our chef was quite entertaining, flinging shrimp up in the air towards one of us to catch in our mouth, which my brother was quite good at (you know, the trained seal type thing!) What was really interesting was that he used Vodka to clean the grill surface in between types of food he was grilling!








We then went back to his house, where he continued setting up my new "netbook" (I earlier called it a notebook and was quickly corrected that the term is "netbook" - I told him, "tomato-tomoto, notebook-netbook"!) Any way, this thing is sooooo coooool! It's has everything I was looking for - portability, a keyboard AND a touch pad, powerful speed and big memory, can hold all my files including Excel, and best of all it has a flip screen so you can use it like an iPad! I just LOVE IT!






Sunday: Wow! What a show! I was exhausted... Glen, Dennis and I managed to finish off one of the bottles of wine that HighRelief brought, it was yummy and just what we needed to end the day and the show.


I spent the last hour of the show mostly socializing with Matt BillyGoat, Glen, and Dennis88. Then I coerced kindly Matt into helping me pack up! He was awfully gracious to assist especially when all I did was sort of hand him a box and showed him where to start! If only Todd could be so easily and amicably coerced.

Here are some photos I took of my new Conder tokens with my phone camera - of course they didn't turn out very good (so Todd doesn’t have anything to worry about!) The 1 pence D&H Young's Promissory Penny is very beautiful and very rare and the D&H 24 Slough Red Lion Inn is a very cool and rare white metal piece






And here are the rolls of Indian and early Wheats I bought from a little old lady who just wanted to sell them so she wouldn't have to carry them around! I don't usually buy rolls of Wheats since I have so many already, but there were a few some nice early dates, rather than the usual 30's and 40's and they were all original and uncleaned.



By the way, I also mentioned earlier that another customer had given me a can of yummy Washington-made Almond Rocha (but since I'm a chocolate addict and try to keep away from such temptations, I decided to bring it home to my hubby who loves these tasty treats. But the can wouldn't fit in my bag (yes, my bags are packed very tightly), I just dumped the foil wrapped pieces in my carry on. However, when the TSA folks decided to do a bag check and remove everything from my bag, all the almond rocha came tumbling out, so they helped me gather them up and put them in a TSA blue rubber glove to help contain them back in my bag!




Now another great coin show has come and gone. This one was unexpectedly fantastic! I mean last year was a really good show but you never know how mid-sized shows will turn out. As with any show, it just depends on what you have and what collectors are looking for. Scott and Lisa Loos and the PNNA group do an extraordinary job putting this show on. They really cater to us dealers, making sure we have what we need, even providing a separate dealer lounge where we can relax, have a cup of coffee, some snacks, etc. before the show begins, as well as throughout the show. And they do a great deal of advertising and offer great little seminars for the collectors during the show. Sometimes everything comes together as it did at this PNNA show.

Not only that, but there are so many forum members in the Seattle/Portland area so they made this show even more fun stopping by, chatting, swapping coin stories and interesting forum stories, and even buying a coin or two. It's this kind of comaraderie and show success that make all the traveling, walking around in very cold cities, hauling coins through airports, setting up/tearing down, sleeping in lumpy beds, etc. very much worth the effort!

My show started out with a bang when I sold a beautiful raw 1864 bronze proof, and ended with another bang when I sold my 1873 S-1 double Liberty Indian cent! I was glad to see both of these great coins go to good homes. As I already mentioned, the show was steadily active and went by so fast. There were a lot of passionate coin people in the Pacific NW and I am grateful to have met many new ones and chatted with familiar ones too.

After a day of catching up, it'll be time to prepare for Santa Clara! Here we go again....

 

Great new photos and writeups. Look forward to seeing todds pics of that first conder posted, looks pretty.

 

Thanks Mat, at least we know that Todd doesn't have to worry about me taking any business away from him! :u*meY:

 

I can imagine what went through the head of the TSA agent that saw all these...

 

Charmy, you made it seem like I was there too. Your enthusiasm(sp?) really spills out and makes your posts more enjoyable to read. The pictures of your coins are pretty but you are beatiful. Thanks for sharing all the things that happen on your journies to all the coin shows you attend.
As a side note, I'm looking through some IHC's that my friend had from his farther. They were stored very poorly and his 1864 with L just crumbled away in my finger tips. very sad. First time that has ever happened to me. It is not recognizable now. Didn't mean to end in a downer. zeke