Question About 2020 Coin Shows

FFIVN and I love some pick-bins lol. That's our speed.

 

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I am busy with a newborn and other another project, but if there is a LOT of interest I could build some sort of online bourse. I basically already have a working image uploader, would just need to modify it to display on a web page on my site only open to CT folks.

 

You should have plenty of time awake with a newborn (says the guy with the 6 month old)

 

Pick bins are a lot easier to simulate than individual listings. You could post a photo without ID showing 100 coins lined up in ten rows and order by 'row 3, column 5'. Since this is not a place for expensive coins, the job of full data would fall to the buyer.

 

I like this idea a lot!
FFIVN and I need to scratch an itch and this would be the perfect way to do it.
He has 2 weeks off of school starting Monday that I know he would enjoy spending with some new coins. I doubt we can get it up and going by then but I still like the concept.

 

No more coin shows, no sports on TV, a shortage of toilet paper; the real question here is "ARE WE GONNA SURVIVE THIS GLOBAL PANDEMIC "? Luckily my survival kit is ready...

 

You can even break it into just a few categories; maybe under $15, $15 to $30 and $30 to whatever dollars. That would make it a lot easier to handle. Truthfully, most dealers have a whole lot of coins that nobody ever sees except at coin shows, particularly the lesser price ones.

Also, it may be fun to invite the US and World Collectors (and dealers) to join in.

 

I got some beer, vodka, and ameretto(for the wife) today. After having 4 beers tonight, I’m not sure I bought enough beer

 

Seriously, I found this on Coinsweekly:

 

The big problem I see here is postage. According to many dealers, postage and handling are more than the coins we are discussing.

I miss the early days on eBay before it became popular with the wrong crowd. They had a feature called Dutch auction where you bid an amount and said how many coins you would take at the price. I bid $20 each on a lot of 35 denarii saying I would take 34 but the price was set by the second person who offered $10. Obviously I saw a coin in the bunch worth the price to me but was willing to risk the one I wanted would not be the one the other guy got. It was fun. It was more fun when I got the coin I wanted. At shows unidentified pickout pots for a fixed price were much more common 20 years ago than today. Jonathan Kern had the best ones sorted by price. I saw one with at least 200 tribute pennies (bought none) and another with at least as many cheaper denarii (bought a lot). Those were the good old days.

 

I miss the good old days...even though we weren’t collecting back then lol. Perhaps the good old days, pre-global pandemic.

 

Obviously, coins bought from different dealers would all have their own postage. That would be a problem. The best way is free postage (over a certain minimum dollar amount) but that may not fly with everybody. A definite area that would need to be discussed.

 

I see that you're a pharmacist.

 

No such thing as free postage. You either pay the postage fees separately for postage or it's built into the price.

 

I was imagining creating a standardized Google Slide template that the dealers could place their images and attributions and pricing in various categories/sections. They could have the link listed in their Google Hangout (digital "table") for viewers to peruse (view only) in a new tab while conversing with the dealer (or not), the dealer could be sharing their screen with the Slides up to talk through what they have to serve an interested party's request, dealer can edit the file in realtime with Sold indicators (edit ability), and be able to show in realtime the coin in hand via webcam to interested parties. Dealers would be responsible for taking the order and more than likely create invoices to send out to the buyers. I would expect them to be capable to handle that part of the transaction.

Here is a little mock-up of a template I threw together to share the gist of what I was thinking...

Not sure if it should be shared in View mode (the buttons on the ToC don't work in that mode, but it has the slides on the left as a way to navigate... is that better than a ToC??): https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fVDt8d1KFmJwPIhtvrgXUi-_8OtijoOJZvYgtWw2h6g/edit

Or in Presentation mode: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fVDt8d1KFmJwPIhtvrgXUi-_8OtijoOJZvYgtWw2h6g/present

 

It's been a while since I used drive (like a decade). Does the template require users to make an edit to have a Google account?

 

I hope I am not as foolish as my wife suggests.
I attended the Houston Coin Club meeting tonight. The meeting room at a local college will close next week, but will be open today & tomorrow for exams.
Tomorrow and Saturday I plan to help with a coin show. I am guessing attendance will be low, but who knows. I hope we have an ancients dealer, but I would not be surprised if he did not show.

 

For your project don’t forget the CT members outside US like me living in Europe. I would prefer buy not only one because of postage fees. On eBay I bought some stamps to a guy in US the postage fee if I remenber was low around 2 usd via US mail but for coins with protection I don’t know ?

 

There are a whole lot of details still to be worked out but it appears there may be sufficient interest with both collectors and dealers to continue this discussion at a later time ... particularly if coin shows continue to be cancelled.

@Justin Lee : Very nice job with the template