Coin Show Attendance

With the fabulous and informative thread Arizona Jack recently posted about the ANA Coin Show in Phoenix I would like to ask the collective membership here a question. How many Coin Shows have you attended? If you can't remember how many, just a guess would be fine. This could be any numismatic/coin show with more than one table and items for sale thru one with thousands. They all count.

Personally, I've never been to a coin show of any type. Chuckle, I wouldn't even know how to act at one either, LOL...:goofer::goofer:

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I have been to a half dozen coin shows in my life, with the last one being this weekend. I will be feeling the pain from this one for a long time.

It's like being a kid in a candy store! Too many things to choose from and don't know where to start! hya:

 

I do one coin show a year, about all I allow myself to collect in USA coins. Otherwise I get most of my stuff from Europe etc.

 

I've only purchased coins from coin shops and internet sites [and a few antique shops that probably don't count]. I haven't been to a coin show. Recently, I prefer the internet [but not Ebay]. Someday maybe I'll attend.

 

I have personally been to 5 coin shows. Thats my favorite way to shop for coins. with so many options, if you dont like one dealer, you walk to the next one.

 

about eight, all local Utah shows. The best one in the state IMHO is in two weeks. I'm saving my money, getting a game plan and looking for coins to us as trade material.

 

Only been to one - they're not that often here and it always seems like something is going on.

But if I lived somewhere more "urban", it's probably the only place I would buy my coins.

 

Four. And all in the past year.

 

I myself have never been to a coin show. Everything I get comes from ebay, a flea market, or circulation. I have been to one shop that has a corner set up for coins and have gotten some things there as well. I have always wanted to go to a coin show, but there are never any nearbye. The closest one that I have ever heard of is almost an hour and a half drive!

 

I've been to the Baltimore coin show once and hope to get back there in the summer!!

 

maybe 400-500 over the past 40 years

 

I don't know exactly but I would say somewhere around a couple of dozen. Colorado Springs has a yearly show that coincides with the ANA Summer Seminar and I have been to this show the last 4 or 5 years but my attendance was thin before that. I have been to a small show up the road in Castle Rock a few times and I have also attended a handful of Denver coin shows. I was living in Sacramento in 1988 and I remember going to a coin show in Reno (and I bought a Pan Pac at that show).

My favorite coin show was the 2006 ANA World's Fair Of Money in Denver. The Phoenix Coin Show that Arizona Jack just attended sounds a lot like the WFOM show. I was like a kid in a candy store. There were more dealers than I could visit in 3 days. More great coins than I had ever seen before. I spent my entire budget for the show the first day (but I got some really good stuff). I am not much of a collector of world coins but I bought coins from many of the foreign mints that were there.

At that show I got to meet Rick Snow (THE authority on FE and IHCs) and I also saw other coin personalities (e.g., Scott Travers). I got to see the ten 1933 Double Eagles the Feds confiscated and are holding. (Yes, there were armed guards. Several of them. Feds.) The exhibits were also very educational.

Small coin shows are fine and good but if you ever have the opportunity to go to a BIG show you really should make the effort to attend. It may open your eyes to a side of numismatics that you have not seen before. No matter what you collect you will probably be able to find excellent examples at a big show (many in conditions you had only dreamed of).

 

I've been to three, all local shows.

 

Oh geesh, Hmm. I think i have been to about 30 or 40 in my life. I almost never buy anything at them. lol

 

Just one, last year's Houston money show

 

A few dozen for myself. Would have liked to attend more, but unfortunately most fall on weekends, which are often impossible for me to get off work.
Guy~

 

Ohhh, I'd guess about 100, +/-

 

never been to one. But i would like to. maybe i will go to the one Tater is going to

 

to many to count. if i had to guess, i'd say 1.

 

I attend at least one a month, sometimes more. If you never went, you don't know what you're missing.
Just as an example figure this: One dealer has a box marked half off. I always dig through and come up with something. So this time I picked an unc 1946 Booker T. Washington priced $39.00, a beautiful unc 1979D Washington quarter at $2.95, and a nice white 1959 unc Franklin half dollar with choice FBL priced at $17.95. So the total of the 3 coins is $59.95. Half off would be just under $30. I handed the 3 coins to the guy and said "Twenty bucks". He said yes. Now I can use them all but if I just sold the Franklin for ten bucks, and kept the unc clad quarter; I'd end up with a nice Booker T. for under ten bucks!
The next table had a bag of 53 Indian head cents.
That dealer wanted $70. I said "How about $60?" He says "deal". Out of the 53 cents I got at least 6 that you can read the Liberty on the headband, which grade VG or XF, maybe worth $6 to $8 each. The dates were three 1890, three 1896, a few more in the 1890's and the rest 1900 and newer. There were about 6 that are AG. The rest are G+ to VG. And I paid $1.13 each!
I bought from 2 more tables, one was a 1920-S Walker in VG for $7.00
You really can't go wrong if you watch what you're doing.
I passed on a couple of raw Gold Indian 2.5 dollar coins at $205 each.