Dubuque, Ia. show today: report

Vess1 · Oct 18, 2009

I had a great day at the Dubuque show today. This was the first show my wife went with me to. Just to check it out and see what one was like. Her first and probably her last. No miracles happened. lol

First time I've been to the Diamond Jo casino and it is quite a large complex. It was a great place to have a show. Really nice venue. After going through the huge first floor casino, we took the escalator up to the second level to where this small show was held.

As you can imagine, everything in this place is top of the line. No expense spared. You almost could have held a small show in the bathrooms and felt ok about it!

Anyway, we went into the show. Not that busy. A moderate crowd. An excellent selection of everything I was looking for which was nickels today.

Got there about 10:30. Looked around till noon. Got hungry and we decided to walk down the hall to this real nice bar. Certainly the nicest one I've seen around here. Roughly a 50x30 room, I estimate. They had NFL Sunday ticket and I got to watch my fantasy players in all the early games on no less than 17- 32 inch flat screens and 2 large 8 ft screens side by side! All while eating a (pretty much gourmet) 2/3rd pound bacon cheese burger.
When we left the bar, we noticed to the right of us was roughly a 20 lane bowling alley with more tvs everywhere playing the ticket. This is all on the second floor. And only part of the complex.

My only complaint was that it was smokey. They still allow smoking in casinos and this would have bothered a lot of non-smokers who have gotten used to the bans in both IL and IA.

So anyway, we went back to the show. Today was a pretty no non-sense trip for me. Strictly stuck to the sets I'm working on. Picked up some nickels and a couple token MS Franklins for that set. Paid anywhere from 10-25% off prices listed on the 2x2s. But they still made a little profit no doubt. Got quite a few decent coins without breaking the bank.
Ran across a couple buffalo rainbow toners!! Wasn't expecting that at all. I came an hour and a half late and I couldnt believe they were still there. There was no premium for the toning. I've seen this type of toning before. One was a 1913-TY 1 that I needed and the other was a 1938-D that I didn't need but bought it anyway to fill an extra hole next to the one I've got. Don't know if they're AT or NT, but I was thrilled with them.
Also got some common 38-P,D,S Jefferson's to finish out the blank spaces in the buffalo album which I'd been meaning to do.

Have anther 6 months till the next show I'll be attending which will be quite a bit larger and a first visit for me as well.

Here's a few pics of today's haul and the toners. These shouldn't look too bad in the album.
The pics really don't do them justice though. I couldn't capture it any better.