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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 1533172, member: 16948&quot;]The September Las Vegas show at the Palace Station is now the “Arizona Coin Expo” owned and run by Sandy and John Gulde, and this is the first show.&nbsp; (The March show at the Palace Station is put on by the Las Vegas Numismatic Society and used to be run by Sandy and John but is now run by DEI Expos – Frank and Dawn who also own and run the Ontario Coin Show).&nbsp; The Palace Station is a nice venue, free entrance to the show and very easy to get to – it’s right off the 15 freeway and Sahara, and parking is abundant and free!</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a picture I took off the Palace Station website.</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2009%20Las%20Vegas%20Palace%20Station/PS_Hotel_Exterior-new02-lowrez.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I arrived for set up on Thursday which was from 2-7pm.&nbsp; I don’t really like the loading area since it’s rough and bumpy and has a somewhat steep ramp, but once in the room, there’s plenty of room behind and in front of the tables so set up is easy.&nbsp; After my table was ready to go, I wondered around the room a little, bought a 1972/72 that I needed for inventory and found a very pretty original raw 1900 Indian cent. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2009%20Las%20Vegas%20Palace%20Station/LasVegas-20120915-02945.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2009%20Las%20Vegas%20Palace%20Station/LasVegas-20120915-02964.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Then it was time to open one of the bottles of wine I brought!</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2009%20Las%20Vegas%20Palace%20Station/LasVegas-20120913-02906.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>After set up, I went to the Rio the check in, and decided to stay there and play for the night.&nbsp; Here’s the view from my room during the day, then at night.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2009%20Las%20Vegas%20Palace%20Station/LasVegas-20120913-02907.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2009%20Las%20Vegas%20Palace%20Station/LasVegas-20120913-02908.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2009%20Las%20Vegas%20Palace%20Station/LasVegas-20120913-02912.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2009%20Las%20Vegas%20Palace%20Station/LasVegas-20120913-02913.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>After I checked in and was headed to dinner, I passed these two slot machines right next to each other.&nbsp; Unfortunately, I wasn’t the one who hit these jackpots!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2009%20Las%20Vegas%20Palace%20Station/LasVegas-20120913-02910.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I had dinner with a couple other dealers at a very good Chinese restaurant right around the corner from the poker room.&nbsp; Unfortunately, they didn’t serve alcohol, so I didn’t have my usual wine with dinner.&nbsp; However, one of the dealers went to the gift shop and bought a few bottles of beer which went well with the Chinese food!&nbsp; Then it was time to play!&nbsp; The Rio only had no-limit poker games going in the poker room, so I decided to play Ultimate Texas Hold-Um and Three-Card poker out by the black jack tables.&nbsp; After being ahead, then down, the up, by the time I went to bed, I was ahead $20!</p><p><br /></p><p>On Friday, the show opened to the public at 10am.&nbsp; People slowly trickled in and soon the bourse floor was buzzing with activity.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2009%20Las%20Vegas%20Palace%20Station/LasVegas-20120914-02917.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This customer had a pile of cash – he’s the kind of customer all us dealers love!</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2009%20Las%20Vegas%20Palace%20Station/LasVegas-20120914-02919.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I stopped by Rick Snow’s table to see what cool coins he had – he always has some of the most beautiful, rare , and interesting pennies.&nbsp; This time, he had some very rare and unusual patterns.&nbsp; He told me that the 1885 below was struck in silver and only 5-7 are known to exist.&nbsp; The 1850 is the first small cent pattern struck in 1/8th silver with the same style as the 1885.&nbsp; Apparently, they put holes in the coins so they could make them larger, otherwise, without the hole, the coin would be too small and awkard to handle.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2009%20Las%20Vegas%20Palace%20Station/LasVegas-20120914-02923.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The design of the 1854 below was reduced from the silver dollar design so the detail is pretty crude.&nbsp; There are under 10 known.&nbsp; The 1850 is made from copper nickel and is the same design as the holed patterns above but without the hole.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2009%20Las%20Vegas%20Palace%20Station/LasVegas-20120914-02924.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>After things died down, I opened a very special bottle of wine I had brought – an amazing 2006 Estate Crown Stags Leap Cab!&nbsp; Coin show in Las Vegas, good music, and very tasty wine - it doesn’t get much better than this (well, ok, it does, but Stags Leap is one of the best wines I can afford!)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2009%20Las%20Vegas%20Palace%20Station/LasVegas-20120914-02926.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2009%20Las%20Vegas%20Palace%20Station/LasVegas-20120914-02927.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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