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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jeankay, post: 352514, member: 12159&quot;]<b>first coin show</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, definitely different than ebay. And a bit overwhelming. </p><p>( I actually have an anxiety problem called agoraphobia which makes it doubly difficult to go to these kinds of events. Sometimes I break out in a drenching sweat and people around me start backing away like I have the plague or something else contagious). </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The coin show only happens here once a year. It is fourty plus miles from my home.</p><p>The sponsor is the Redwood Empire Coin Club, being its 40th annual coin show, in Santa Rosa CA. The admission was $1, which I paid with an Ike, and they gave me back a wooden Redwood Coin Club coin. They are to have drawings for different gold coins tomorrow (Sunday), but I won&#039;t be there to see who wins. There were also drawings for silver if you had bought some tickets, but I stayed away from those.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Should I dare list the dealers?</p><p>Arrowhead Coin, Bruce Berman, Jack Beymer, Bruce Braga, Eugene Bruder, Castro Valley Coin, Clayton Valley Coins, CONECA, Allen Covarrubias, Sal Falcone, Famini&#039;s, Fremont Coin Gallery, G &amp; D Gold and Silver, Griffin Coins, K.C. Herrmann, Livermore Coin Co., Marathon LTD Collectibles, Marconi Coin Exchange, Art McBride Rare Coins, McIntosh Collectibles, Larry Mochizuki, Pacific Numismatics, Patina, Charles Richesin, Don Rinkor Rare Coins, Rogue Valley Coin, Ben Rosenthal/Don Wagner, Alistair Skinner, Silver Eagle II Coin, </p><p>S &amp; T Coins, Tahoe Coin, Trader Sam&#039;s Coins, VAMS and More, Frank Villalon Rare Coins, Wargo Enterprises, World Wide Notaphilic Service, Wuller International, and Tim Yager. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Almost all of the dealers had signs up to buy your coins. There must have been nearly a ton of silver up for sale, and a couple hundred pounds of gold. Not a lot of rummage boxes to search, Besides, I could not get close enough to one to see what was in it. Some people seem to actually camp out in front of some displays and dare you to get between them and the box. I thought better of doing the famous boardinghouse reach because I figured I would get nailed. </p><p><br /></p><p>When I finally found a dealer who seemed a bit lonely I looked at all the displays he had, and started to search through some cardboard flip encased Lincolns. I had brought three of my Dansco Lincoln wheats pages and wanted to try to fill some of the empty spots with the best coins I could afford. He finally looked around and said he had much better ones than those and handed me a mighty nice stack of wheats. From these I chose the ones I bought (like I listed in my first post). He gave up on trying to tempt me into more expensive coins when I told him I wanted to keep the coins close to similar grading for each page.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There was an auction going on in a corner. I wasn&#039;t able to see anything from my vantage point, and I did not dare turn around and go against the traffic. Much too dangerous. Some people were rude enough to practically push me away from what I was trying to see. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I really did not get any other chances to take a good look at most of the displays. I know there was at least one stamp dealer, and a few dealers selling banknotes, a couple dealers with a good selection of US proof sets, a couple dealers that had almost all foreign coins. There was a great display in a glass case with an outline of the world and ancient coins identified and correlated with the countries. Very nice display. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I only saw a few adults with kids in tow who appeared to be interested in what was going on. This could change tomorrow because Sunday seems to be the day a lot of families get out and about at major events in our county.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The one very bad problem that worked against the show was the building and its very bad lighting. Even though all the dealers had lights at their displays it was difficult to reach the lights so one could get a better view of the coins they wanted to see. I am quite short so it was twice as far to reach. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There was one very striking display though. The dealer had color decorated coins of different denominations. He also had ASE&#039;s in the blue velvet mint boxes which had holograms on the smooth raised parts of the coin. If I had the extra money to toss away I would likely have bought one of them just for the fun of it. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>All in all it was a pretty good day for me. I wish I had taken more money with me so I could have gotten twice as many coins as I was able to purchase. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks for letting me share my experience with you all.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>jeankay[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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