Is anyone going to be at the Coin Show here later this month in KY? http://www.coinshows.com/louisville_ksna.html I see that they moved places---I just hope that there are more dealers and more coins!! I missed the show last year but had been to at least 3 years worth of this show and normaly it is pretty good! If you are going to be there let me know and maybe we can meet up!!! KLJ---Wish you were down here Speedy
I don't know yet what day I'll be there but I think it will be Friday. I'll PM you when I know for sure. Speedy
While you're in the area, you should make the drive down to Bardstown, KY. Great little town. The home of bourbon (Finest bourbon: Woodford). Lots of great little museums and such.
You and me both. I still miss Loovuhl greatly. While you're there, check out the Louisville Numismatic Exchange table. They do great business, and have an awesome store downtown, if you're looking for a good one, which I seem to remember you do. I know EXACTLY where that hotel is. It's much easier to get to than the place they had it in Jeffersonville, IN. It's right at the corner of Brownsboro Rd. and the Watterson. About .2 miles from the church where I interned (but I didn't intern at CCUM).
I am hoping to make it Friday afternoon. And sometimes LNE does not have a table, but I will certainly be looking for them. That might save me a Saturday trip.
Will do! I have to go to MapQuest and get a map for this as I know nothing about "Loovuhl" and I'm sure it is easy for some but for me I would still get lost. Speedy
You all just have to move to Illinois. With coin shows every weekend, some for several days, all easy to find, you would be able to go to one all the time.
I'm still hoping to be there on Friday morning. The map quest said that it will take 1hr. and 44min. to get there so I'm hoping to get there when it opens! If you see a guy about my age with more than likely bluejeans and has a key ring on his belt along with a cell phone or two (don't you just love work phones! ) tell me HI!! Speedy
I'm signed up to work there 10-1:00 on Friday. I'll try to help with taking down the show, or something else, if I can get away from family obligations on Saturday. It will be a little painful being around all those beautiful coins, with so little money in my pocket! This will be only my second coin show.
Had more tables than I thought - only bought one coin. Not a bad show. I avoided a couple of tables with funny slabs and over priced coins. Got there a little before 4 and left about 5:30. Saw several coins I would have liked to have but passed since I usually do not carry that much cash. You can see the coin in the US Coins forum - a little disappointed I missed a spot on the coin.
I had a great time! Too bad I missed you Mark but I headed back about 1:00. I did get to meet Bluegill and that made it worth the trip! Glad to be able to get to meet more of the guys here on CT!!! Like you Mark I only bought one coin---a nice V Nickel. I guess you got to see that NICE 1895 Proof Morgran Dollar!! nice coin but for over 40k it was out of my price range!! There were a few others that I wanted (needed) but didn't buy.... 1908-S IHC in NGC MS65RB---$675 Fake 1950-D Nickel---had it out on the table but wouldn't sell it after I asked how much 1940 REV of 40 PF Nickel....NGC PF66 or 67....$120 I'll try to post photos of the coin I bought soon.... Speedy
Missed that morgan - I concentrated on the copper. It was fun - even though a couple of sellers shut down before I got there. I didn't see anyone from LNE - lots of nice coins.
It was a pleasure meeting you, Speedy! I picked you out of the crowd right away. And thank goodness I was right. It would have been a little weird for me to ask some random person, “Hey, are you Speedy?” and been wrong. I’m glad you made it up here. I spent $20. The best bargain I found: There was a 1960-D Franklin half with a price tag of $10, and a 1972 Eisenhower dollar with a price tag of $2. Both of them were in a bin marked “half off,” meaning the Ike was a dollar. I pulled them out and was going to pay the dealer, and he said, “Just give me five for both.” So, I got an Ike at face value (it’s not a good specimen or anything, but it’s more fun than paper) and a Franklin half in EF condition for below current melt value. I had to return in the afternoon after work to take back another one of the coins I purchased, for I became convinced that it was a counterfeit. I wish I’d taken a picture of it so that I could show people what I was talking about. I was a little excited when I first found it: In one dealer’s binder of world coins, he had a couple of pages of 18th and 19th Century reales and half-reales. I’ve been looking for such a coin from the 1730s, because that’s the kind of coin that would have been in common usage in the Colonies when the first of my family came over during that decade. I spotted a 1737 half-real for $18.95, and the dealer said he’d let me have it for $15. It wasn’t in great shape, but that was a good price, so I purchased it. When I got back to work I looked at it a few times, and became troubled. The more I thought about it, the more I became convinced that this was a replica. Finally, I became sure that it wasn’t just a fake, it was a poorly done fake that screamed “sucker!” The details on the coin were poor. There was metal between the bars on many of the letters. Importantly, there were bubble-like raised nodules of metal, which is what would occur if the coin were cast in a mold that had bubble-holes in it that had formed when the mold-making material had set. Most damning, there was a broken flange of metal protruding from the top edge of the coin from where (I suspect) metal fed into the mold. At least, this is what my eyes told me. I took the coin back, explained to the dealer my concern, and handed it to him. He looked at it with his loupe and mentioned something about the quality of the coins at that time varying considerably, and then he gave me my money back. So I have no problem with this dealer, except that I think it was a seriously problematic coin that he himself should have caught. There were a few other world coins I bought from him that I’m satisfied with. I was very excited when I first saw the coin: A textbook case of getting carried away. But I’m happy with myself for spotting it in time to do something about it.
Sounds like you had a good time! I saw one of the dealers from up there today and he said that on the first day he went sold around 10k!!! Glad to hear that you were able to take the coin back!!! I did that once and the guy thought I was a nut! BTW---Back to Marks post...I did see LNE but wasn't impressed with either the guy behind the table or the coins they offered--I think the guy that was manning the table was a friend because when I first got to the show there was the normal guy I had seen before there in the white shirt and tie and this guy was standing there talking to them and buying some coins---next thing I know the first guy was gone and this little guy was behind the table and wasn't friendly at all... Well I hope to see ya'll next time!!! Speedy
