Quick show report: Thursday and Friday were fairly quiet, but Saturday (free admission) was fairly well attended. The free appraisals also generated some visitors, no doubt. The ANA museum brought a number of eye popping paper money examples from the Beebe collection, along with a few beauties like a 1933 $10 gold eagle. Paper money dealers seemed well represented. One dealer had some stunning full sheets of notes including Nationals; another had a seemingly endless supply of boxes full of international notes. (I took home an irresistable Mexican cowboy note from one box.)
Most of the show I was manning a table for the Souvenir Card Collectors Society with Ken Barr. We had a number of potential new members look over the display and a few old members stop by. One was life member Cliff Mishler, past president of Krause Publications. Ken and I had a nice dinner with him after the show Friday and got to hear a lot about how the Krause empire was built. In all, a worthwhile show, but nothing like FUN or some of the other big shows back east. Any other members attend the show?
Charmy showed the food in her thread. I'm amazed that the silver dollars were placed in stacks like that. The yellow tag in the foreground said "Peace BU" but I'm guessing they were AU by the end of the show. Chris
Great pics and thread. Thats alot of Morgans and just makes me not miss collecting u.s. coins. Ive attempted to look through world currency in boxes like that in Long Beach. I find it too daunting.
Great write up, being there Saturday got see this first hand. sorry i miss meeting you i was by that booth many times. i saw that pile of silver dollars and wonder how many got ripped off, when i went by there, the people were 3 deep, can't watch that many people.
dear gsalexan: I too was at the Portland show. You posted a pic with a young ladt at her booth with foreign currencies in bins or folders. Was that "Mark's Coins and Collectibles" booth? If so, I thot it was the best of show, it was sure busy. Thanks for the images. Gary (GSDykes)
