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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 1867371, member: 15929&quot;]I&#039;m tempted to go just to meet you buddy!</p><p><br /></p><p>I went to the SF Coin Show when it first opened. I didn&#039;t care for the venue because the building is a series or &quot;rooms&quot;.&nbsp; Typically, a coin show bourse is a single large room with rows and aisles but the SF Mint Bldg is nothing but rooms and aisles.</p><p><br /></p><p>The rooms themselves can either be eerily quiet or extremely loud with chatter as the walls and floors reflect noise back at you.</p><p><br /></p><p>Parking was fairly simple but the city is always a beehive of activity.</p><p><br /></p><p>On that first visit, I was in the wrong lane when my street came up so I had to drive down two blocks in order to go back 4 blocks so that I could be in the correct lane to turn. The streets are all One Way which means if you miss your right turn, the next street is One Way in the other direction. Also, as with any large city, right turns aren&#039;t permitted at some intersections and the pedestrian traffic can be, uhhhh, intimidating.&nbsp;&nbsp; UGH! I don&#039;t like big cities and coupling that with the funky layout of the Mint building and the three hour drive, I&#039;ve never gone back.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for your questions.</p><p><br /></p><p>$150 is a respectable amount for any coin show but have an alternate plan for getting more cash in case you find that one, two, or three irresistible coins that you absolutely must have.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes dealers will trade but you&#039;d better know your stuff as they are there to sell. They say they&#039;ll buy but there buy prices aren&#039;t anywhere near retail which means that your $50 coin might garner a $20 buy price.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do not recall of any specific error dealers in the area other than this fellow that&#039;s out of Grass Valley CA and it doesn&#039;t look like he&#039;ll be there.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The Penny Lady</b> is on the list and she&#039;ll deal with you. She always has a noice assortment of copper coins including some errors and exonumia.</p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like <b>Dr. Eugene Bruder</b> is on the list and his table is always a very nice assortment of varieties. He&#039;ll let you browse his 2x2 boxes as well and most of his coins are accurately attributed as ddo/ddr/rpm or whatever. I always make a point of stopping at Gene&#039;s table since he has an excellent assortment of Kennedy&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t really know any of the other dealers other than Rick Snow of Eagle Eye Rare coins, the McIntosh boys (always in Hawaiian shirts), Glenn Holsonbake and Scott Griffin himself.</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;re sure to have a good time Simon with it being your first show and all as you&#039;re young and sharp whereas I&#039;m old and fat and get confused and frustrated easily!</p><p><br /></p><p>PS. The list of dealers I was looking at off of <a href="http://www.griffincoins.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.griffincoins.com" rel="nofollow">www.griffincoins.com</a> was from the September 2012 show so I have no idea who is going to be there! UGH![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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