I want to start an exhibit collection for coin shows and ect. but I do not know what coins I should do for it. What ones do you recommend for the exhibit collection?
Just find something that fits well with your interests and your collection (and any pieces you could possibly borrow for the show).
Why do you wish to do this - to simply exhibit something/anything, or perhaps to display/share your passions/interests? If the latter the answer should be obvious.
There was a hint hidden in that post... if you wish to exhibit something, unless you have near unlimited funds to pay someone to do it for you, the obvious answer, IMO, would be to start with what you know.
Sometimes it doesn't hurt to look into niche collection such as foreign coinage, woodies, errors and so on. There's just so much you can cover on US coinage.
Looking at your profile picture gives me the idea you could do an exhibit of US presidents on coins and currency, it would be an exhibit that could be just as expensive or inexpensive as you want to make it, for instance you could cover Washington with 2 dollars and 25 cent, the dollar coin, the dollar bill, and the quarter, as your finances grow you could add the Washington Lafayette dollar, the 1982 gold 5 dollars, and the silver half dollar, plus there are many non coin medals and tokens with Washingtons visage portrayed.
To me this is like asking us what car you should buy. An exhibition collection should reflect your interests -- and be something different.
If you are interested in doing an Exhibit I would recommend getting a copy of the Rules from the organization where you will be exhibiting. From experience I know that exhibiting is more about the overall visual impact than about the actual coins/medals/tokens being shown. Winning exhibits tell a compelling story more so than just show cool/expensive coins. In addition to the Exhibit rules take the time to understand the judging criteria. In Michigan for example the MSNS Exhibit Committee shares sample judging sheets to help exhibitors understand how their exhibit will be judged. The ANA offers a course at their Summer Seminar on how to build a winning exhibit. This course has been the path to winning for many exhibitors. Good luck and have fun building an Exhibit.
showing borrowed items would be a violation of ANA regulations. all pieces must be the property of the exhibitor.
Well, that seems oddly exclusionary. I guess I thought exhibits were mainly supposed to be educational efforts, not opportunities to show off one's personal possessions. Whatever. I suppose you could just do a poster without any actual coins on display, although I also suppose it would be really unlikely to win any prizes...
Understanding the judging rules will go a long way in helping you assemble an exhibit. Yes, rules require that items shown be owned by the exhibitor. Odd? Not really, keep in mind the objective is to not assemble the best borrowed material. And a poster exhibit would forego the points awarded for the numismatic items. Judging points are awarded for the completeness and rarity of numismatic items shown as well. As I said, read and understand the rules and judging criteria. I have seen many award winning exhibits with relatively inexpensive numismatic material. They did an outstanding job of research and preparing and presenting an interesting exhibit.
A quick search yielded the following resources...... https://www.money.org/uploads/pdfs/2015PortlandExhibitsRules.pdf https://www.money.org/numismatic-ev...s/john-r-eshbachs-preparing-a-winning-exhibit http://www.centralstates.info/printrules.html http://www.tsns.org/exhibitrules.html http://www.pnna.org/exhibits/exhibit_rules.html http://www.michigancoinclub.org/applications/Spring_2015_Bourse_Application.pdf http://www.vnaonline.org/images/EXHIBIT_RULES.doc http://www.gamoney.org/pdf/ExhibitRules.pdf http://www.sc-na.org/documents/ExhibitRules.pdf http://www.ccatech.com/tna/download...ion/2015 TNA General Rules for Exhibiting.pdf First decide where you plan on exhibiting, then get a copy of the rules that apply. Read and understand the rules. (membership in the exhibit sponsoring organization will most likely be required)
When I exhibited my 1982 Lincoln DDR-001 discovery coin one judge seemed determined not to see me get first place. They refused to give me full points on rarity although there was only one coin known to exist at the time, they took away points for grade because it wasn't MS-70 (it was AU-58), and took away points because I didn't list what reference books it could be found in (there weren't any!). I ended up taking 2nd place in the error category. It wasn't until after the show was over that i found out that you can petition for a review of the judging.
A ANA certified judge should know better, it is part of their training. But, there are some people that just aren't trainable. I ran into something similar where the three judges scores were 95, 93, and 63. In that case the Chief judge should have thrown out the 63 score, and judged the exhibit himself. That didn't happen. My guess is that someone didn't want an exhibit from out of state to win. Needless to say I haven't exhibited at that Association's show since.
I would like to think it was a coincidence that it was the exhibit chairman's nephew that won with off center strike coins that formed a clock......
Yup, sure just a coincidence. I am involved with the Exhibit Committee at MSNS and that sort of thing would bring some serious attention. Our Committee Chair is different from the Chief Judge and the Chief Judge handles all the Judge assignments and judging results then informs the Chair of the results. Very strict adherence to ANA compliant rules.
Please note that I'm not the one who was asking about putting together an exhibit. Since I hadn't been thinking about it, no, I hadn't read the rules or guides. I've thought of exhibits as primarily an educational effort. That's how they seemed to be cast at the show I just attended. I'm a bit disappointed to learn that "showing [off] what you've got" is such a big piece of the pie at so many shows; I would have hoped that "educational value" would be weighted overwhelmingly. Whatever. Clearly, my mental model of a numismatic exhibit is way off-kilter from what actually happens at many shows. That doesn't really mean anything, except that my mental model was off. (Well, it also means that I'm unlikely to assemble an award-winning exhibit, but that was already true anyhow.)
