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Message:: [QUOTE="bhp3rd, post: 692686, member: 16510"]Yesterdays Knoxville Coin Show was fairly well attended at least for the first 4 hours which is typical for summer shows. Silver was being bought for 11.4X face to 12X for U.S. 90%.War nickles were a wooping .47 cents each, (that surprised me).Gold was about $885 to $945 an once unless pure.Silver Eagles were $18 to $20.50 for common.The 3rd issue Lincoln's were about $4.50 to $7 a roll, ("D"'s were more availible than "P"'s, strange) - The first 2 issues by the roll were dead.  I bought a second issue "P" box face value, .50 cents a roll.Several people were searching for type coins with good eye appeal, (when is that not the case?).Wheat cents wholesale seemed to have dropped of a bit stuggling to reach $150 to $175 a bag.Two hugh World coin collections went for almost nothing - I was shocked!People bringing in these huge note books of hundreds, thousands of coins in 2x2's going for a few cents each.  The sellers stating they just wanted rid of them.A few groups of clad slightly circ. moderns such as Roosevelts, Jefferson's people had put up in albums got the said news to just "spend them".Many regular Mom's & Pop's still not there as regular as they had been - this economy is still very poor! That's about it - next show Oct. 24th!!![/QUOTE]