What Would You Want To See Profiled On A Coin Show?

Currently I am working on a Coin Show Idea and I thought to ask the community, what would you like to see on a coin show? Currrently there are no coin shows on Television, not the in depth types that we all see on other interests. A coin show exclusively devoted to the hobby. For both collectors and investors. The history of the particular coins presented, mintage, rarity, etc. How to spot a fake. Raw VS Slabbed-preferences. I think you get the idea. What are your thoughts. I thought it would be fun to include some of our favorite coins and I'll start with my 1879 P $10.00 gold piece.

 

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The things that you have stated are probably a good start,
then let it evolve from there.
Is this for a cable local origination channel?
I think you'd have a hard time selling this to a network.

 

Well one step at a time. Everyone loves money, no matter what form or fashion it comes in. I can't forsee any network turning it down. If they did, they'd miss out on a huge demographic. It's about time someone put together a thoughtful, well researched correct fact and information, not to mention historical coin program.

 

If they'll put Mike Meziak on the air, they'll put this on. Cause this is way better.

 

I agree with Doug. Btw, there has been regular coin shows on the air over the years, ones just talking about coins but not selling any. Problem is, way too few people care. You think coin collecting is a big demographic, but its not. Even as a demographic its too fragmented. If you did a show about that gold $10 you would get some traditional collectors, and geeks like me to watch, but most world coin collectors, ancient collectors, modern coin collectors, etc maybe not.

I applaud your zeal and idea, I am just saying its been tried repeatedly and not worked. I think your best bet would be a Youtube series or something similar.

 

Good luck! I'd love to see it happen. It would be a much tougher sell than you think though.

 

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Can you afford the production costs? Can you find backing for that?
Lots O' Bucks!

 

Silverhouse, never give up on your dreams. I would love to talk with you about this. I collected off and on growing up, but didn't get back into it until October. That was only 4 months ago. I stayed up one night thinking about an idea for an online pawnshop geared towards PCGS/NGC slabbed coins. The next night I wrote up a business plan (first one ever). That weekend my cousin (Patent Attorney) basically re-wrote the business plan. 7 days later I had spoken with two funding analysts, done a risk assessment, and sat down with an underwriter from Navy Federal. 48 hours later I received a call that I had been approved for a 100k loan. My family completely freaked out on me, and pulled the plug.

The funding part is not that difficult. There are thousands of people that are dying to invest in a good idea. On top of that the government is anxious to approve loans to help jumpstart the economy.

With that being said, I do not believe a coin show on T.V. would have a very large market. On the other hand, if we traveled across the country and made professional videos of rare coins that dealers were trying to sell, we could format them into a monthly/yearly video. If properly done we could showcase the piece with the dealer, from multiple angles in a 360* presentation. Then you could distribute that monthly/yearly rare coins documentation throughout the internet + at all major shows. Once it takes off, top dealers would have to pay a service fee to have their coins featured in the video, or all sales would be based upon consignment. Think about it. By the way I am never afraid to share an idea. Every time I go out in public there is an idea. PM me if interested.

 

I got this far before I realized he meant a TV show, not a local coin show.

 

Yes, YouTube is the way to go. Lower production costs, likely a larger audience, and each show is automatically archived for you. I would suggest a multi-segment format that many other shows use. For example, current news and new issues, an interview, coin of the week (month or whatever), question & answer segment, beginners corner. With Youtube you can be up and running as soon as you are willing to do the work. If you get enough viewers you don't even have to sell ads, Google will pay you. You could do in kind advertising, but it that can get tricky until you deliver eyeballs.

 

I got it... Celebrity Metal Detecting Hobbyists. TC

 

How bout a Coin Roadshow. Not for sale coins to be brought to appraisers. Again, not for sale coins to be shown to appraisers. Or how about a show that goes to all of the small club shows. Have NGC or PCGS sponser it!

 

I would put the show up on Youtube rather than traditional TV. It'd be a lot cheaper and you'd definitely reach a larger audience. If you start up your show, to me a big draw would be discussing the history while providing as much info and photographs as possible. Just displaying the coin would not be enough, so a lot of research would have to be done. I think doing video reports on local shows would be cool as well. Half the fun of going to those shows is just looking around, so doing segments like that would be neat.

Another idea is doing reviews on various supplies like albums, etc...

Being a metal detector, I like the idea of featuring segments on what coins people find in the ground.

You can also do interviews with people in the business. You can have weekly reports on precious metals in how they are doing in the market place; weekly reports on trends in numismatics. Also do weekly segments on the hot online auctions for that week.

There are numerous possibilities for this. Just keep it interesting and fresh. Don't just display a coin and do a voice over.

 

It will be much much more than a coin and voice-overs. Many of the ideas presented here are incorporated in some fashion or another. Any CT'ers in MD?

 

I can see history channels newest hit, "Coin Stars" Episode one: a large apology that the show cannot happen because of the coin counting machine name.

 

New generation of collectors will not be attracted to your Idea about 1879 P 10$ Gold Coin.-This will be a Dead Coin Show.. You must Think a very interested Piece of a coin to be talk about with a MONETARY value that they will becoming rich or wealthy in the Future.
Most Prominent or Professional Expert Agreed or Behind of Coin Fact Encyclopedia/PCGS.DOUBLE DENOMINATION ERRORS

One of the most expensive, popular, and desired types of errors are the double denominations. This error happens when a coin is struck on a previously struck coin of another denomination. Examples are a cent on a struck dime, and a nickel on a struck cent.
The most dramatic are those with considerable design visible from the original strike.
http://www.coinfacts.com/error_coins/double_denomination_errors.htm

 

^^ not again...

 

Aside from this one type of coin which most people are getting quite tired of hearing about, as opposed to more interested in the more they hear of it, the logistics of creating a show around one specific type of error coin is problematic. For one thing, it really is a one trick pony type of thing, just like my favorite type of error right now, which is a die clashed roosie dime. I appreciate it a lot, but know that most people would like it as long as I am not showing it every chance I get, on threads I start or threads I don't start. Sometimes over-hyping stuff will get people actually turned off a nice error simply because they are sick and tired of hearing about it. And for the ones who are new here and haven't, they soon will.

For another thing, the error you reference is a PGCS graded error, and if I am correct (which I don't know for sure, and don't wish to research in detail to make sure, because it really doesn't matter if it's exactly the same one or a near carbon copy) is one that has recently been featured on ebay trying to sell it for 3800.00 http://www.ebay.com/itm/1997-11c-PI..._Individual&hash=item5d32567de1#ht_1177wt_734 . That's a nice tidy sum, for sure, if it gets realized, but you mentioned "You must Think a very interested Piece of a coin to be talk about with a MONETARY value that they will becoming rich or wealthy in the Future." in your post. I don't believe that 3800.00 will allow someone to become very rich or wealthy, unless they have the ability to immediately turn around and invest that money at about a 15% or more profit, and leave it alone to do so, then taking out their profits before it inevitably gets wiped out by being in a bubble or some spectacularly lucky fund. And I don't see this as reasoning that is logical to allow your coin, which you feature heavily, to be sold at 8 or 10 million bucks so you can be rich and your fortune secured by this type of coin. So your statement that this type of coin will lead directly to wealth is fallacious.



Two words, which I really in all expectations think you will ignore, given the history of your coin appearing frequently on many threads here: Get Real.

The logic you have given is not good, and the premise of the coin or type of coin that would bring in viewers just won't float. It would fill all of about 3 minutes of tv space to show how that error could occur and that it is a dramatic type that isn't found too often. End result, the value of the coin would probably be put at about 800.00 to 3500.00 depending on condition and the number of people interested in having that error.