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Message:: [QUOTE="kanga, post: 463964, member: 9270"]My observations about the show:Bear in mind it was Thursday afternoon at 2PM when I entered; lots of collectors still at work.The crowd was reasonably large under those conditions, i.e., some tables were busy, some weren't.It was fairly obvious that the busy tables were the ones with better material; the reason will become clear when I comment about the state of numismatics in general.As time went by, the crowd got marginally larger. My thoughts about the current state of numismatics:These observations are a combination of what I saw AND questions I asked.When you read Coin World and CDN, the numismatic picture seems quite rosy.BUT that's because they are reporting on the top end of the hobby.Five-figure and up coins are trading well (both bought and sold). Two- and three-figure coins are about dead at the moment.Sales are at best slow.And dealer buying is essentially dead except for very good material bought below CDN.Dealers don't want more if they can't can't sell what they've got.So the high end tables were busy and the tables with lesser material were snoozing. What did I buy?One roll of Alaska "P" state quarters.One roll of Alaska "D" state quarters.One roll of Hawaii "P" state quarters.But I didn't see any Hawaii "D" state quarters. And my biggie was a 1943/2-P Jefferson nickel in PCGS MS-65.That completes my War Nickel set (I'm not interested in the DDO's mentioned in the Red Book).All my other War Nickels are FS and range from MS-64 to -66. I'd be interested in the observations of anyone going Friday or Saturday.[/QUOTE]

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