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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hiddendragon, post: 1428322, member: 25270&quot;]I attended the show on Friday. It was my first coin show and I&#039;m glad I had a chance to finally go and see what it&#039;s all about. And since I mostly collect world coins it was nice to find one that caters to my area of interest. </p><p><br /></p><p>My observations are that it was different than I expected. The booths were smaller than I expected and there wasn&#039;t a very big area to spread out. Usually when I go to a coin shop I take out my lists of coins I need and get a spot to myself where I can look through my lists and methodically sort through the coins for sale, but there just wasn&#039;t the room to do that here. Also, many sellers didn&#039;t really seem to have that many coins, but what they did have was very high end. I saw a lot of types of coins I&#039;ve never seen before, and it really makes me wish I had money. I also found I could quickly tell if a seller was worth my time by looking at the prices on a few coins I am familiar with. There were some where I&#039;d see a coin that I know I could get for a dollar on eBay marked for $6, and with these I&#039;d just move on. On the positive side, there were some dealers who had decent priced value bins with some really nice coins in them. I was able to get several coins I need for my collection for good prices. I had been kind of afraid that all the good stuff would be picked through already, but I got good deals on many items. I also didn&#039;t know how uptight some dealers might be with me browsing through their stuff, but many times they didn&#039;t seem to be paying attention really. That was nice because I didn&#039;t want to feel like I was pressured to buy something or leave. </p><p><br /></p><p>It was interesting observing other people too. Many of the buyers and sellers were clearly from other countries, or else were at least immigrants. I don&#039;t mean that as a judgment, just an observation. It was interesting listening to people bargaining too. Some were really relentless and bargained over everything. I paid the asking price on what I bought because it was mostly from value bins and already priced reasonably, I thought. </p><p><br /></p><p>I did find though that after about 3 hours I had seen everything I wanted to see. I buy lower priced stuff from value bins and only a few dealers had that, so once I had looked at them all I was done. It also tipped me off to a few new dealers to visit in the area that I didn&#039;t know about before. And on a side note, there was an anime convention across the street, and there were some very unusual people around who make me feel less nerdy for collecting coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>In all, it was a good experience and I&#039;d definitely like to go back next year.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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