For those of you who attended the Ontario show, feel free to post your reports. Here's mine.... Thursday morning was set up, and the show opened at 2pm. I had an Indian cent die variety guy (Ron) help me Thursday afternoon. This was his first time working behind the table, and although he has some physical limitations right now, I think he really enjoyed the experience. He especially likes going through my coins pointing out repunched dates, misplaced digits, and other die varieties. I was lucky enough to have a table right up front and ended up being pretty busy. I had a lot of regular customers stop by, including a couple forum members. I ended up selling quite a few pieces on Thursday, and lots more today (Friday), so this has been a great show for me. I even had one of the top Conder token guys stop by and ask if I had any British material. I said I did, but it wasn't for sale - since I happened to have my new Conder tokens with me. He was actually excited to see what I had and said it made his show just to be able to see them - that made me feel really good since I'm such a novice at collecting these beautiful copper pieces! I did buy a few coins, including a very pretty 1862 Indian cent, NGC MS65, for my personal collection (will post photos later). I bought it because I thought it was a neat variety. It has really dramatic die polishing lines over the ear, but when I looked it up in Rick's books to find out the Snow number, it wasn't listed. So I called Rick and asked him what Snow number he thought this variety was, he said that he hadn't seen this variety in 1862. There are similar varieties for other dates (1864 CN, 1875), but not for an 1862. So I asked if this meant that I had actually discovered a new variety, and Rick said YES! So I'll give the coin to Rick to photograph when I see him in FUN so he can add it to the next edition of this volume of the Attribution Guide. I'm very excited to have "discovered" a new variety! I've had a lot of people at this show who just want to "pick my brain" about certain dates, copper coins, or buying coins in general. I do enjoy spending time, when it's available, with collectors - I always end up learning something myself. I had a dealer offer me one of the neatest Lincoln cent collections from 1909 to 1970 all displayed in an oblong sized capital plastic type holder, probably 10" x 24" in size. It was a really pretty display, and looked like the holder was custom made. I ended up passing on the deal (I felt it was a little too expensive), but it was a great way to display the collection. I also received Rick Snow's last volume of his Attribution Guides just in time for the show. I've already sold several of these very informative volumes to Indian cent collectors who have been waiting for these to be issued! Tonight after the show, the promoters had a "happy hour" at the hotel's courtesy lounge. It was really nice to be able to have some snacks and drinks, and just sit and get to know some of the other dealers. Frank and Dawn/CKshows (DEI), the show promoters, have once again done an excellent job advertising for and putting on this show. Most dealers agree that the venue is in a great location, right off a couple major freeways, easy to get to, plenty of room, and right next to many restaurants and hotels - it's just very convenient. Any way, would love to hear others' experiences at this show, so post some of your own reports!
Nice going on finding a new variety. :high5: I'm expecting my copy of Ricks latest attribution guide in todays mail. Bruce
Thanks folks, I am excited about my new variety! Well, I just got home from the show. Wow, it was sure busy for me today. There seemed to be lots of retail public, much more than I expected. I bought the 2-volume set of Noyes' large cent books for myself, and Rick Snow had shipped me several of the last volume of his Attribution Guide (1890-1909) and I ended up selling every one of them! I also bought several beautiful raw MS64/MS65 Indian cents that I'm very pleased with. I also sold several high end pieces, including a couple of my really pretty cameo Indian proofs and an 1877 in XF. Ontario is one of the best run shows and it turned out to be one of my best shows this year!
Penny Lady (Charmy): I had the pleasure of meeting you on Friday. Although I didn't buy any coins, I did find a neat Holiday gift at the show for my kids: Have a Happy Holidays, everyone. guy
Glad to hear you had a good show. Sort of bummed that I couldn't make it this time around. Good luck on Rick signing off on the new variety find too. That's really cool!!
Thanks for the report Charmy, it was great stopping by your table, and congrats on the new IHC variety. I was at the show Thurs and Sat. Its a great venue for a show, plenty of space, I hope to see it grow. The show organizer really puts a lot into promoting it. On Sat they had goodie bags for children, which is more than many shows around here do. My collecting focus is fairly narrow these days so there weren't many dealers with coins of interest for me, but I did pick up a few things including some Peru 1/2 dinero overdates. And I picked up a copy of Rick's new IHC attribution guide. My kid did well, scored some free stuff, including a very nice gift from Charmy.
Well, I sort of have photos - here's the post I made on that 1862 possible new variety! http://www.cointalk.com/t84370/#post765647
