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Message:: [QUOTE="Mat, post: 2331594, member: 21445"]I have only attended Long Beach 4 times & for the most part, my ancient experience is pretty blah. Majority of the coins are way out of my budget range. I usually go with $500 and I mind as well have $5 total. There isn't many ancient dealers around. I have bought from Jencek a few times, about it. I do enjoy seeing many coins in-person but I tend to get dismissed many times or get goto hell looks when I am just looking. Maybe it's cause I am brown skinned & not full white, or maybe it's due to being a "kid" at 36 years old. But some World and U.S. dealers just make me feel I am a gnat. I have also had some old men get hostile or say something under their breath when I am sitting & browsing through world coin long boxes cause they're impatient and want to look. My first Long Beach in 2010 I almost got into a fight due to a old turd calling me a "wetback" and to go back to Wilmington *which is a neighboring town thats mainly latin*. I was thinking of going to ANA in Anaheim in August, depending how some family situations that have come up go. I know a few VC dealers were gonna go that normally don't do west coast shows. But really I prefer the net. Retired asshole show goers have turned me off for the most part. Rest is either high cost or all slabbed U.S. coins.[/QUOTE]