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<p>[QUOTE="silvereagle82, post: 34598, member: 1700"]I attended my first coin show today - "Money Show of the Southwest in Houston, Texas. Probably 300-400 dealers. </p><p>All I can say is wow, I didn't know there was that many coins out there.</p><p>I had developed a 5 coin want list (O-Morgans) and although I wandered around in lala land for the first couple of hours I did manage to regain my composure and ended up buying three coins on my list. I also picked up a set of BU Sac$ , just because <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>There was a lot of world coin dealers and appeared most main featured coins where slabbed .. PCGS and NGC mainly with a few dealers having nothing but ANACs. Of course they had a lot of Raw coins but mostly circulated and low-mid MS. I was looking for MS-64 & 65 so I couldn't find any RAW. Several dealers told me when they get a MS65 or higher RAW coin they get it slabbed.</p><p><br /></p><p>I didn't find any great deals I found most coins could be had for Greysheet ask price +-10%. I was just overwhemled by the number of Morgans (and other coins but I was mainly looking at Morgans) and of course I missed a row and after I bought two of my coins I found a dealer who had two which were better strike/price.. oh well!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, it was very enjoyable all the dealers are very polite,helpful and talkative. I found out there are a lot more coin dealers in Louisiana than I could have imagined...they just don't have storefronts, but I now have there business cards so personalized business will be in order.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="silvereagle82, post: 34598, member: 1700"]I attended my first coin show today - "Money Show of the Southwest in Houston, Texas. Probably 300-400 dealers. All I can say is wow, I didn't know there was that many coins out there. I had developed a 5 coin want list (O-Morgans) and although I wandered around in lala land for the first couple of hours I did manage to regain my composure and ended up buying three coins on my list. I also picked up a set of BU Sac$ , just because :confused: There was a lot of world coin dealers and appeared most main featured coins where slabbed .. PCGS and NGC mainly with a few dealers having nothing but ANACs. Of course they had a lot of Raw coins but mostly circulated and low-mid MS. I was looking for MS-64 & 65 so I couldn't find any RAW. Several dealers told me when they get a MS65 or higher RAW coin they get it slabbed. I didn't find any great deals I found most coins could be had for Greysheet ask price +-10%. I was just overwhemled by the number of Morgans (and other coins but I was mainly looking at Morgans) and of course I missed a row and after I bought two of my coins I found a dealer who had two which were better strike/price.. oh well!! Anyway, it was very enjoyable all the dealers are very polite,helpful and talkative. I found out there are a lot more coin dealers in Louisiana than I could have imagined...they just don't have storefronts, but I now have there business cards so personalized business will be in order.[/QUOTE]
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