More dealers than last few months, including one that used to do the show years ago and recently started up again. One dealer had the new stuff, Grogo, Matrix and other themed limited silver coins, seemed to do okay with them. Another dealer had cobalt, sold all to one guy while I was there. Here are my purchases: 1921D Graded VG8 Walking Lib Half 1917D 1916 and 1917S Walking Lib Halves - lower grade 1915 Cuba 20 cents 1926 Peace Dollar - Cull 1933S 1929D and 1917D Walking Lib Halves 1917D 1938D x2 1919D walking lib halves WWII 50th Anniversary 3 coin set, basically got this for under melt. Which was nice. Highlight of the show was the dealer than had a dozen proof coins from 1800's for sale. A fish scale was attractive, and a merc almost got bought by me, but I decided against it. He had many nickels. They'll be for sale at his show in Trevose PA in 2 weeks. Then he's sending for grading.
How many dealers now compared to pre-Covid ? I went to a bunch of local NJ shows before Covid and with the exception of the Parsippany PAL Garden State Coin Show, they were ALL about 10-12 dealers with hardly anything there. Colts Neck, Edison, Wayne -- I tried a bunch of them and they were basically glorified baseball card or stamp shows.
There were approx. 25 there yesterday best show since I started going back, BP (BC) 30. No stamps. Only 1 sells baseball cards, and they didn't bring any yesterday. Nice selection of coins for a small local show, many bullion options, couple currency dealers. 1 dealer specializes in copper, one in toned coins, 1 in morgans, several high end dealers, three have the new 'manufactured rarities', and half or more are your basic dealers (an inch deep and a mile wide). I'll try to take some pics of dealers next month.
Ah, Coin shows. Around Helena, MT, they are as scarce as hens teeth. About every three or four years, the gun show will have a few (2 or 3) coin dealers show up. <Sigh>
