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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hamster, post: 1237906, member: 32110&quot;]My show notes.&nbsp; Comments welcome. </p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>I spent three hours at the Grapevine, TX show this past Sunday.&nbsp; So much more fun and more memorable than shopping on ebay.</li> <li>Since most of the items I was looking for aren’t rare but are rare slabbed, I got a lot of strange looks and didn&#039;t see much of what I was looking for, but I wanted to give the local guys a shot over ebay</li> <li>I looked at all the tables and made notes on a map of the show I drew.&nbsp; Then I sat at an empty table and determined what I would focus on buying.</li> <li>My hit list for the show and results:<ul> <li>Only looking at PCGS or NGS slabs</li> <li>Just looking for one good find from the list below:<ul> <li>Jefferson war nickel: I was only looking for one, but the dealer convinced me to buy ALL his Jeffersons.&nbsp; Poof!&nbsp; All money spent.</li> <li>Franklin in a grade or year I don’t have: No low grade slabs as expected, some years I didn’t have, but I didn’t pull the trigger</li> <li>BU or proof Silver Eagle: Plentiful, but the Jeffersons won out</li> <li>Circulated early commemorative, e.g., Columbian Exposition: None found, but SO MANY beautiful MS early commemoratives</li> <li>AU Liberty Seated dime: More expensive MS ones were available</li> <li>AU silver 3 cent piece: Only one MS found</li> <li>Proof-like (PL) designations, but not Morgans: None spotted</li> <li>Budget older type coins: None spotted</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li>Noteworthy dealers (everyone was very friendly):<ul> <li>First dealer inside the door had the best stuff.&nbsp; No bullion, just rare US coins.&nbsp; I checked prices on a few things that caught my eye, but they were all out of my price range.&nbsp; He said one of his old-timer customers breaks his $10,000 (for example) coins out of the slabs and puts them in albums and then carries the albums to the shows.&nbsp; He’s always worries the guy is going to get mugged.</li> <li>A nice dealer showed me some Cap and Ray reals.&nbsp; He said they were a good value for their rarity, that there are over 200 different types to collect and that China was a big market for these now.</li> <li>One dealer gave me a hard time about looking for a circulated commemorative.&nbsp; He said I should think about my collection’s future value and the bump to MS not being very large.&nbsp; I think he thought I was bargain hunting rather than looking for something unique.&nbsp; After he gave me a hard time about that, he went out of his way to show me the difference between some silver eagles: burnished vs regular, reverse proof, 2011 vs older.&nbsp; Super nice guy.</li> </ul> </li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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