If your in the Illinois area you may be interested in knowing we how have gone from a normal 3/coin shows per Month just outside Chicago to now 4 coin shows per Month. At a coin show in Itasca today, in the front was a pile of sheets telling about the new coin show on the 4th Sunday of each Month in Rolling Meadows, Illinois starting in May 4th. So on the 1st Sunday is Lemont, 2nd Sunday is Coutryside, 3rd Sunday is Itasca. And don't forget the International coin show april 23, 24, 25, 26 at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare hotel. And to think a bit ahead the Illinois Numismatic Association Fall Coin show on September 17, 18, 19, 2009 with expected 220 tables. For the second time in many, many years at the Itasca, Illinois show today there was a second room required due to so many dealers. And so many customers I left early due to not much room in the aisles any more. And not much chance haggling down prices when dealers see mountains of people. So would you suspect coin collecting is growing a little bit?
