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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hobo, post: 345069, member: 11521&quot;]I don&#039;t know exactly but I would say somewhere around a couple of dozen. Colorado Springs has a yearly show that coincides with the ANA Summer Seminar and I have been to this show the last 4 or 5 years but my attendance was thin before that. I have been to a small show up the road in Castle Rock a few times and I have also attended a handful of Denver coin shows. I was living in Sacramento in 1988 and I remember going to a coin show in Reno (and I bought a Pan Pac at that show).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My favorite coin show was the 2006 ANA World&#039;s Fair Of Money in Denver. The Phoenix Coin Show that Arizona Jack just attended sounds a lot like the WFOM show. I was like a kid in a candy store. There were more dealers than I could visit in 3 days. More great coins than I had ever seen before. I spent my entire budget for the show the first day (but I got some really good stuff). I am not much of a collector of world coins but I bought coins from many of the foreign mints that were there. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>At that show I got to meet Rick Snow (THE authority on FE and IHCs) and I also saw other coin personalities (e.g., Scott Travers). I got to see the ten 1933 Double Eagles the Feds confiscated and are holding. (Yes, there were armed guards. Several of them. Feds.) The exhibits were also very educational. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Small coin shows are fine and good but if you ever have the opportunity to go to a BIG show you really should make the effort to attend. It may open your eyes to a side of numismatics that you have not seen before. No matter what you collect you will probably be able to find excellent examples at a big show (many in conditions you had only dreamed of).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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