The Gettysburg Coin Show

The presentations are in a conference room that is outside of the main bourse floor.

 

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Aw, man, that's less than an hour from where I lived as a kid. My folks are still there, but I won't be visiting until October.

 

I just received my next two Battlefield Coin Shows token coins.
The workmanship on these is excellent.
They are just about the same size as a Morgan or Peace dollar.

 

Those are nice. Hope I can get some of those.

 

Still looks like I'll be at this show unless something comes up within the next week. Who else is pumped for this show?

 

Still looks like I'll be at this show unless something comes up within the next week. Who else is pumped for this show?

 

I am going with my wife, 2 boys and my nephew. Its only about a 2 and 1/2 hour drive for us, and we are combining it with tours of the battlefields and other fun stuff in Gburg over the weekend. I just hope it doesn't pour down rain.. no fun walking around in muddy fields soaking wet... . If it does, more time at the coin show I guess.

 

Well, that would just add to the Civil War experience. The Civil War was Hell on Earth. more people died from disease than minie balls.

 

how is the weather looking in Gettysburg so far? do we have a CoinTalk meteorologist on the scene?

 

I was in Gettysburg for the weekend but didn't make it to the show. Anyone go? How was it?

 

I could be wrong but I thought until penicillin there were more deaths from disease then direct battlefield kills in every prior war.

 

Overall, the show was very good. We went on saturday morning when the show opened at 9:30 and stayed until about 1pm. There were a lot of tables/dealers (more than I expected actually) - guessing maybe 75 dealers and over 100 tables? and the variety was pretty standard. Mostly US coins, not much world and few ancients. I have been collecting mostly world coins lately, specifically Germany and Italy, so there were only a few tables that had any real selection to speak of for me. Found a great dealer, his name was George Watson, and he treated me and my kids very well. Very nice man, and very knowledgable - he also gave us a great price on the coins we purchased. Seemed to be in it for the love of coins not so much for profit. We bought some coins from a few other tables as well, spent maybe $700 or so in total. It was a fun time and I was happy to see my kids get into it.

Many of the dealers were extremely friendly, especially when they saw my kids so interested in coins. A few gave them some free coins (mostly chinese coins), but you would have thought they gave my kids gold by the looks on their faces. My 7 year old looked at me and said "Pop, am I allowed to take this for free?" Precious moments. I appreciated all of the dealers that were nice to my kids - if any of you are reading this, THANK YOU.

I did talked to one dealer about purchasing some silver (ASEs) and he wanted $23 an ounce. I asked him if he knew the price of silver was under $18, and he just said he wouldn't be able to sell for less than that. I thanked him, said I understood and politely passed.

The only real "negative" was the facility. At first I wasn't even sure I was in the right building - I thought it was going to be in a conference center or exhibit hall in the hotel. Nope. It looked like an old gymnasium of a broken down old amusement park in the next parking lot over from the hotel. I won't go so far as to say it was a dump, but it seems to be headed in that direction. If you have been to coin shows in Vegas or other higher end hotels, you would have been disappointed here. Does that have a big impact on the coin show itself? Not really, but it wasn't exactly an inviting place.

I don't go to a lot of shows, so if you have specific questions about the Gettysburg event I will try to answer them.

 

Thanks for the review. I did stop in a coin shop in Gettysburg and picked up a 39.2-ee Connecticut, but there was just too much going on to make the show.

 

It's true that there weren't many ancients at the show, but there were enough to keep me looking for a few hours. Andy Singer is more than happy to discourse at length on each and every coin in his inventory, and he's extremely knowledgeable. His primary interest is medieval, but he had a nice selection of higher quality ancients. All told, I bought 5 coins from three separate dealers. I sincerely hope they run the show again, as it's a short drive for me, and I prefer more shows than less.

I wasn't put off by the venue. Yes, it looked like an old school gym, but it was a room full of coins. It didn't bother me. My wife collected a handful of world coins as well and we both had a great time.

My Gettysburg newps...

 

The Gettysburg 2015 Battlefield Coin Show token just arrived today

Excellent detail on the reverse !

 

Mine showed up too

 

They're nice medals, but how was it the 2nd annual show? To my knowledge, this was the first time.

 

Here's the 2014 medal which was the 1st of the Battlefield Coin Show Coins

 

How do I get these?