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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bambam8778, post: 3221673, member: 80341&quot;]I don&#039;t think it&#039;s necessarily an economy issue with the Baltimore show. I am willing to say I could be totally wrong here with my assumption, HOWEVER............</p><p>I live within a reasonable distance to Baltimore that I love to go spend the day down there when the coin show comes around. I Have been there almost every time since I&#039;ve been back in to collecting. Members of my club man the booth in the front from time to time so it&#039;s an all around nice experience for me except.........I don&#039;t have a ton of money to spend. I MAY take $50-$100 with me. I don&#039;t expect anything to be given away to me but there are only a handful of people at this show that have anything worth while in a reasonable amount of money. It is because the show is a huge draw from many people across the country and the cost to show/sell there can be quite large. Tables, hotels, etc. so it&#039;s not worth selling what I can buy or what I would even consider a splurge. Now don&#039;t get me wrong, you can find nice things there like any show and I do enjoy going. I really enjoy it actually. </p><p>I missed it this week and wasn&#039;t really horribly upset that I forgot about it and couldn&#039;t go. To the opposite, I would be upset if I missed one of my other local shows or even the Gettysburg show(which I drive a while to get to) that offer (to me, don&#039;t blow that out of proportion, only to me) a better deal. </p><p>I think the low attendance can be attributed to many things, weather, etc but my thought it that it could be to the success that this show has seen for larger big time collectors. It is pushing the smaller collector out. It is what it is and I will still make plans to attend to drool over those things which I cannot afford![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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