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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;1970 Silver Art, post: 977910, member: 18828&quot;]Yeah it was a disappointment that I did not find as many &#039;70&#039;s silver art bars that I was interested in.&nbsp;&nbsp; During the two days that I spent at this coin show, I purchased only three 1-oz &#039;70&#039;s silver art bars.&nbsp; Two of those &#039;70&#039;s silver art bars I posted on the following thread (see post #141):</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t55843-10/#post977008" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t55843-10/#post977008">http://www.cointalk.com/t55843-10/#post977008</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The third &#039;70&#039;s silver art bar that I bought at the coin show was a 1974 Hamilton Mint silver art bar from the &quot;America The Beautiful&quot; series.&nbsp; I paid $19.00 for that one on Friday and it was on my &quot;wish list&quot;.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Actually the problem was not the lack of &#039;70&#039;s silver art bars.&nbsp; There were a lot of &#039;70&#039;s silver art bars at the show but the problems with that was that most of them were: </p><p><br /></p><p>1.) Holiday Theme bars:&nbsp;&nbsp; A lot of those &#039;70&#039;s art bars were Christmas, Thanksgiving, Independence Day.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>2.) I saw a bunch of Mother&#039;s Day and Father&#039;s day bars in which most of them were minted in either 1973 or 1974 from various private mints.&nbsp; I was never interested in collecting these types of &#039;70&#039;s silver art bars.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>3.) Silver art bars that I already bought at past coin shows: There were several silver art bars that I saw at the show at a great price but I already had those art bars in my collection and I did not want to buy any duplicates.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In addition, there were some other silver art bars that I found that were on my &quot;wish list&quot; but they were way out of my price range.&nbsp; For example, I saw some 1-oz Coca-Cola silver art bars at this show and there were a couple of Coca-Cola art bars that this particular dealer had that were on my &quot;wish list&quot; but there was one big problem with that.&nbsp; The problem was that this dealer was asking for $45.00 each for the Coca-Cola art bars that I was interested in buying. The most that I was willing to pay for a 1-oz Coca-Cola art bar was $31.00.&nbsp; As a result, I did not buy any Coca-Cola bars from this dealer because those were out of my price range.</p><p><br /></p><p>The best part of the show for me was finding that 1/25 oz Isle of Man Gold coin for $30.00.&nbsp; That was the brightest spot for me at this coin show and that made up for disappointment of not being able to find the &#039;70&#039;s silver art bars that were on my &quot;wish list&quot;.&nbsp; I spent a lot of time walking around and looking at what each dealer had.&nbsp; I walked around several times to check out prices and to see what I can find.&nbsp; On Friday I spent close to 4 hours looking at art bars, checking out prices of other bullion, talking to other dealers, writing down prices that I saw to help me remember what prices I saw just in case I decide to buy something from certain dealers.&nbsp; On Saturday, I spent about 2 hours at the show.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Overall at this show, there was plenty of gold and silver to be had for excellent prices for the most part.&nbsp; There was something for almost every collector.&nbsp; There must have been close to 200 dealer tables which that is the norm for this show.&nbsp; This show is always booked in advance because this is one of the popular mid-sized coin shows in the south eastern U.S based on what I heard from other dealers at the show.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>BTW I do not think that there were any Pepsi silver art bars that were minted as far as I know.&nbsp; I have not seen any Pepsi art bars.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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