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Message:: [QUOTE="illini420, post: 687179, member: 19423"]Congrats on getting your first 1909-S V.D.B.!!!!  Very cool!! I only went today (Saturday) and I found it to be just about as busy as the Long Beach show usually is on a Saturday with the same few east coast dealers who leave the show on Friday night not present. I disagree with BNB's take on coin dealers though.  Sure, this weekend the prices on all gold coins, especially common date collector grade St. Gaudens coins were going to be much higher than say last month given the recent run up in gold prices and the huge jump in demand on these.  But I know there are still plenty of deals to be had at the show.   Not sure when you got used to paying Greysheet bid for your coins, but for nice coins I think that it would be extremely rare to buy at those levels.  I do think that the average price level charged by dealers seems high because for many coins dealers are charging the same levels for coins they did last year.   That by itself wouldn't be a problem, but when I go to sell coins to dealers, they are not paying anywhere near the same as they did the year before.  Makes it hard for me as a collector to pay the going retail price for a coin when I know that the same dealers will not buy my coins even at the going wholesale prices. Of course there are a few dealers that just charge crazy money on their coins, especially on the modern stuff, but I just stay clear of them.  For example, I was looking for a few 1996 Mint Sets at the show.  Found one dealer selling for $11 per set, another selling for $15 per set and yet another selling for $23.50 per set!!!  Guess who I bought from!!!! Anyways, I had a good time at the show, bought a few coins and sold a few too.  Was able to also pick up a 1908-S Indian Head Cent graded PCGS AU58 which will complete the circulated portion of my grading set!!!  Finally![/QUOTE]

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