I got to the show at about 9:15 and signed up. The show didn’t open to the public until 10:00 so I went to the Heritage auction lot viewing to see some of the coins. I saw some nice coins and some not so nice coins. One of the cameo Franklins I saw looked like the frost had been added to the coin with a wire brush. I went to the show at 10:00 and went straight to the ICG booth. I met Cameron Kiefer and took ICG’s Interactive Grading Workshop. I did pretty well grading Morgans. The gold was harder and I graded a MS-61 Saint Gaudens as AU-50 and a MS-64 Saint as AU-58. I then went to the ANACS booth to have them look at some of my coins that I thought they had overgraded. Since there was a long line at their table, I went to Fred Weinberg’s table which was right next theirs, and had him look at a couple errors for me. I then went to NGC’s booth and talked with David Ganz about my 1922 NGC peace dollar that I thought had PVC. He said that it had verdigris not PVC, and that it wasn’t worth conserving. I then went looking for a low grade seated dollar for my type set. I wanted one in an ANACS holder. I found an 1846 in Fine details Net VG-8 Scratched-cleaned that was just what I wanted. The dealer said I could have it for $200. I offered him $175 but he said he couldn’t go that low. I then offered him an 1896 toned MS-65 NGC graded silver dollar in trade and he accepted. Since I had paid $110 for the silver dollar, I was pretty happy with the deal. I went back to the ANACS table and showed the guy there my 1947 MS-65 Walker. He said that he thought it was a liner 64-65. He also thought my 1880-S PF-63 PL was accurately graded, but that it should be reholdered because of the mechanical error. I showed the Walker to another dealer, and he said that he liked the new holder, but they still couldn’t grade. He said he had some Saint Gaudens double eagles from PCGS, NGC, and ANACS, and that he had sold the NGC and PCGS ones but that the ANACS ones would be hard to get rid of. I bought an 1884 CC GSA silver dollar from Silver Towne that had some nice reverse toning. I also got a 1921 Morgan in a Blanchard MS-60+ slab. Silver Towne was doing a brisk business buying 90% silver, silver bars, kreugerrands, and AGEs. I went to the Heritage table and got to see a nice collection of proof gold coins. I had never seen a matte proof gold coin before. Overall the show was moderately busy, but not very crowded. A few of the dealers had signs saying “wholesale business only” and some had empty cases. Only one dealer charged me sales tax and he was an Ohio dealer. I bought some nice toned coins and a few proof sets too. I had a great time, and I am looking forward to my next show. Charlie:smile
Sounds great! I've known Cameron through the internet for about 3+ years and he is a great guy! What about a photo of the Seated Dollar?? Speedy
I was also there today, at the same time as yourself! If you noticed a 20 year old with a Toledo University t-shirt, that was me. The grading workshop was awesome! Cameron was the grader who helped me and was very informative. I graded the gold (which I knew hardly anything about) and nailed 5/10 spot on. There were a couple I was way off on but after Cameron pointed out what I missed it was quite obvious. Glad you enjoyed it. I sure did.
Most of the dealers were at their tables. A few weren't but I wasn't interested in anything they had, so it didn't really matter. Here's the seated dollar. I cracked it out as soon as I got home. Charlie
Here is a 1945-D Mercury dime I bought. It is in a green label PCI holder graded MS-66 Split Bands. Charlie
Now that is a nice mercury dime. Also is that Seated dollar that you got Charlie. Sounds like you did a fine job.
Now that is a really fantastically detailed coin show report. That is the type that should be posted for all coin shows so everyone can see what they are like. by the way about how many dealers were at that show? I've been to many coin shows around here and never seen a ICG or ANACS represetative type table or grading system table and we just had one last year with well over 500 dealers. One of the coin shows I go to each month has about 100 dealers and still nothing like what is described here. I don't know where that CSNS show was but sure wish I was there. Thanks for the great report.
Carl- There were about 225 dealers there, and the big three grading services were swamped. ICG had a few people at their table taking the grading course, but they weren't that busy. Charlie
