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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 7758740, member: 105571&quot;]FUN stands for &quot;Florida United Numismatists&quot; and it is an organization that&nbsp; puts on two major coins shows in Florida (normally in Orlando at the Orange County Convention Center.&nbsp; FUN also serves somewhat as an umbrella organization for the Florida local coin clubs that choose to associate themselves with FUN.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Winter FUN show is one of the largest in the country and is in January.&nbsp; Summer FUN is in July and is a smaller but still substantial show.&nbsp; This year the show, which ended a three-day run today, had about 240 dealers and was the first FUN show since the last one in January, 2020.&nbsp; In addition to the dealer bourse, there are coin club meetings, educational presentations by speakers, YN activities, and exhibitions put on by clubs and individual presenters.&nbsp; Also, the TPG services are present to accept submissions and oftentimes at Winter FUN, the US Mint has a large presence.&nbsp; As with most coins shows even when the focus is on US coins, there are dealers in jewelry, fossils, ancient coins, world coins, watches, bullion, currency, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are numerous high-end dealers and collectors there but also numerous mid-grade and entry level dealers and collectors.&nbsp; If you want to play with the big boys, you can do that.&nbsp; If your bag is esoteric, academic numismatics, you will find folks into that.&nbsp; If you want to pore through a dealer&#039;s raw coin boxes, there is that also in abundance.&nbsp; In other words, something for everyone.&nbsp; Plus it&#039;s a great place to see and even handle rare and beautiful coins, meet people who share your interests and even some who don&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as I have been able to discern, nobody &quot;sticks up their noses at newbies&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know what would be &quot;in it for you&quot; since I don&#039;t know you.&nbsp; But I am a relatively new collector, having been collecting for only 3-1/2 years and attended my first big coin show 3 years ago.&nbsp; I never felt disrespected or looked down upon even when I didn&#039;t know doodly-squat and made that apparent by my questions.&nbsp; I found almost everyone happy to help me to learn and I am no spring-chicken at 69.&nbsp; It&#039;s all about attitude.&nbsp; But when there are thousands of people attending an event, you will always find some sour apples - that can&#039;t be helped - but that&#039;s also true of professional sports games, rock concerts, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are interested in attending a show, the next really big one is in August in Chicago, not too far from you in Michigan.&nbsp; It is the ANA World of Money Show and it will be really big.&nbsp; Details can be found at </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.money.org" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.money.org" rel="nofollow">www.money.org</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re into coins and currency and I know you are, you can&#039;t help but have a great time at one of these shows.&nbsp; Keep an open mind, be willing to learn, be friendly and you will get a lot out of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have a great day.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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