"Over 180", they say. https://www.raleighcoinclub.org/expo Heading over now, should be there in half an hour. Will probably only stay for an hour or two, but we'll see.
Holy cow, no wonder parking was hard. It's PACKED in here! And full tables, front to back. A lot more dealers and attendees than last year.
Please let us know your thoughts after you have walked the show. Based on it bein packed, it sounds like it could be good for the dealers (at least the ones without museum prices ).
It's a very bad time to be trying to sell silver, but not yet a great time to be buying either, apparently. I sold a cleaned Saint and a half eagle, and (finally!) bought a raw 2009 high relief. Unfortunately it came with the RIDICULOUSLY GIGANTIC original Mint box, so I'm still coming home with a heavier backpack than I brought. But also some cash, which is always good.
I wandered by the ANACS table; looks like they're... having issues? Long turnaround, no longer handling ancients or some foreign? And "not accepting any new customers"?!
And I noticed this display of silver proof sets next to the table where I was selling my gold. It's finally happened: the premium for 1999 silver sets has vanished. They're selling at exactly the same price as the subsequent years. (I have a few sets for which I paid a slight premium. I'm not under water on any of them, but that's entirely down to silver's performance.)
”But by show only.” That’s fine with me, they do a ton of small shows and I’d only submit that way anyway. It sounds like they’re swamped, which maybe is a good thing? I wonder if they lost their grader for the Russian Asian Ancients ME stuff.
Honestly I prefer to submit at shows anyway as that saves me the shipping and insurance to get the coins to them.
Cool picture. I have many of them but not all of them. I finally bought my 1999 set at rock bottom in July of 2025 for $59 plus $5 shipping. Was so ridiculously cheap I just had to buy it. Silver will carry the price from here for better or worse.
I have a few 1999 sets. I think the most expensive one was around $100, at a time when that was close to the silver melt value. Cheapest one was I think $49, and I think that was under melt at the time.
