Very Small Coin Shows - What is the smallest you've been to?

I've been to a few coin shows over the past year and a half; 2 of them several times. Out of the shows, the smallest one was the show in Bloomington, Indiana on April 12th of this year; there were 32 tables and around 20 dealers, including me.

What's the smallest coin show that you have attended? I've seen pictures of some but have never heard of the experience.

 

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I have a local coin show called the Montgomery Co Coin Show that is monthly; I only attend a few times per year because it is always the same dealers with the same inventory. I don't recall how many tables there are, I want to say 50, maybe a little more.

 

@Lehigh96
It seems they are the same dealers that do Trevose and Langhorne.

 

You are correct, they have the Montco & Trevose shows combined on one Facebook page now called the BuxMont Coin Shows. The Trevose show is just a little too far away for me, like an hour drive.

 

We have coin shows in Raleigh about six times a year. One or two of them are in smaller venues, and while I don't remember exactly how many dealers were at the last one I attended, I'm thinking 12 was probably about the most it could have been. I eventually stopped going to those; it wasn't worth the 20-minute drive each way.

 

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I have not been to our local coin show(yearly) in 2 or 3 years. When I first went 10 to 15 years ago there was more dealers. The last time I went it seems there were only maybe 20-30 dealers at most. And it seemed most were selling modern stuff and/or foreign coins which I do not collect. Only 2 dealers there had stuff I really looked at - both large cent dealers - one was an a$$hat and the other had prices way above what I would pay, but the coins were nice. Used to be the local shop kept a small table there but they stopped attending. Now I just can't bring myself to go see same old stuff.

 

A pick coin club show Inonce went to only had 12 dealers and I got the impression they were not dealers but coin club members.

 

There used to be a bunch of little shows in Indiana organized by a specific dealer. Before I finally caught on I had driven for a couple hours to a "twenty five table show" that actually had about 10 sports card dealers and this one specific dealer whose stock I had seen several times already.

 

Our local coin club has a show twice a year and I think it's the only coin show I've ever been to. I'd guess 20-30 tables, perhaps a bit more some years. Some of the old timers seemingly have the same inventory every time - long red boxes filled with world coin 2x2s for example.

 

I've been wanting to go there for a while now! It's all but a 15-20 minute drive from here but I have yet to actually go. My favorite LCS guy is there sometimes (Bucks County Rare Coin) but I'm typically in his shop often enough that I'd just see everything I've already seen lol!

 

I usually go to Coins & Currency of Wayne. He's mostly a bullion dealer and doesn't waste his time on the small numisimatic value involved in Jefferson Nickels.

 

A local coin show I used to attend only had 5 or 6 tables. This remained a consistent number through a number of visits, and seemed to involve the same dealers each time, so I stopped going. But I give them credit for trying. I haven't checked whether that show still happens, but I would guess not.

 

About 30 tables.

 

Back in the late 70s there was a 10-15 table show in the next city over. Would buy several wheat bags to sort through. Bought dozens of them the next several shows. Then the shows just quit. Good times.

 

I have never been to a coin show. There are 3 options within a couple hours drive of me.
The Sioux Falls SD coin show.
The bi-monthly coin show in Omaha Neb.
The Northwest Coin show in the Twin cities.
Would live to hear from anyone who has been to any of these coin shows. James

 

I’m not sure it was smallest show I have attended, but it was the worst.

A stamp dealer put on a show. In the middle of the show, this bozo stops the show so that she can hold a stamp auction in the middle of the bourse floor. To make it worse she was looking for bids as low as 25 cents. This was in the 1970s, but still it was pits. I couldn’t imagine how angry I would be if I were one of dealers who had set up at that disaster.

 

We have a local show once a year that’s about 20 tables. Small, but still good enough to scratch the itch.

My bread and butter is the spring and fall NWCC shows in the Twin Cities that @samclemens3991 mentions above. Absolutely love that show.