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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rower41, post: 1399751, member: 36826&quot;]After a lifetime on-and-off casual/quasi-serious collector and after a hiatus, I&#039;m finally going to my first bona fide coin show this weekend...Whitman Expo in Baltimore.</p><p><br /></p><p>I attend annual model train expos, fishing expos, horticultural/conservation professional expos with all the dealer tables and wares, dragging out the best looking staff ladies to, if you&#039;ll excuse the tongue-in-cheek description &quot;prostitute for the cause&quot; (i.e. good marketing...they know what gets attention of male customers) and sales BS. I purposely go with little $ to spend but use the opportunity more for networking and seeing who-has-what for followup contacts. In all these &quot;fields&quot; I have specific (usually offbeat, I-have-three-heads, non-conformist, progressive ahead of the curve) interests and its usually quick through the floor scanning tables and displays, check back at a few and I&#039;m out the door.</p><p><br /></p><p>Should I expect the same experience at my first coin show?</p><p>Any lessons and advice for the unitiated?</p><p><br /></p><p>For disclosure my interests at this point in my life (just turned 50!) include:</p><p>stacking generic gold and silver bullion</p><p>collecting gold/silver Chinese Panda bullion dates and varieties</p><p>building complete proof series of modern US coinage</p><p>large cents and early coppers...first coinage of the USA</p><p>Type US coins for historical...</p><p>A lot of starting NOW and working backward to make up for lost time...&#039;cept for the large cents where I&#039;m going in the opposite direction. I&#039;ll meet up in the middle somewhere around the Indian Head Era&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>BTW...This all started when my grandmother gave me <b><u>ONE</u></b> coin as a kid...a family heirloom, very personal and treasured LONG before they ever heard of Numismatics. It just happened to be a 1928 F/VF Peace Dollar...they were dirt (The Grapes of Wrath) poor, worked in the coal mines of West Virginia, brought this with them and gave it to me in the late 60&#039;s/early 70&#039;s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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