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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 8417220, member: 105571&quot;]Spent the last two days at Summer FUN, arriving at 8:30 and leaving at 5:30.&nbsp; I&#039;m volunteering at our local coin club table so I get an early bird pass as a result.&nbsp;&nbsp; My first experience at that.&nbsp; Interesting to be there before the general public is allowed in.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s nice to browse more or less unhindered.&nbsp; It&#039;s also nice to have a &quot;home base&quot; at the coin club table to rest and relax while promoting the club and interacting with the YNs, some as young as 8.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, my contacts at FUN tell me the show was sold out.&nbsp; By my count, there were 294 separate entities occupying tables.&nbsp; That includes TPGs, ANA, ANS, Local Coin Clubs and other non-dealer entities.&nbsp; By my estimate, about 260 dealers.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think business is brisk.&nbsp; This morning about 9, I helped a local dealer friend of mine attribute a Fugio he had recently acquired (Newman 3-D, R-3) in a VF-Details slab - a scudzy coin.&nbsp; We talked about how to price it and he put a number on it that I thought was high by about $150.&nbsp; He told me at 2 that the coin had sold to another dealer minutes after my attribution for his asking price.&nbsp; He is a small, local dealer but he sold $8K in those 4 hours with a diminished starting inventory.&nbsp; Indication, but not proof, of a still strong market.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lots of decent material at the show but not a barn burner.&nbsp; There were, though, some fabulous coins on display.&nbsp; GC, Heritage, and Tangible Investments had lots of old, rare gold and other material.&nbsp; Only at shows do you get to hold stuff you could never buy.&nbsp; For example, during a break, a dealer acquaintance pulled a PCGS slab out of his pocket and asked me if I needed it for my type set.&nbsp; The coin in question was a 1796 eagle in AU-50, a $96K coin.&nbsp; I told him I had that hole to fill but I&#039;d already blown my show budget - Ha!&nbsp; Another dealer friend let me examine a 1796 quarter, a Gobrecht proof dollar and a 1797 half dime.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sat in on a pricing discussion between two national dealers on a trade dollar.&nbsp; That was very interesting because it displayed some nuances and research twists that were new to me.&nbsp; Sorry I can&#039;t talk more about that.</p><p><br /></p><p>At the public rope drop on Thursday, public traffic seemed a little thin but it picked up considerably within an hour or two and traffic today was substantial.&nbsp; I did not hear any dealer whining.</p><p><br /></p><p>Somebody tried to pass off a counterfeit 1909-S VDB.&nbsp; From what I heard, second-hand obviously, it was offered to several dealers (one I spoke to personally) who all told him it was fake but he persevered and kept trying to flog it.&nbsp; That is, until the Orange County Sheriffs Deputies intervened and took him away to await the Secret Service, or so I was told.</p><p><br /></p><p>I made a few deals and failed at some.&nbsp; What I acquired:&nbsp; 6 capped bust half dimes, 3 slabbed and 3 raw; 1840-O with Drapery Quarter, NGC AU58;&nbsp; 1852 Half Eagle, NGC AU58 CAC;&nbsp; 1795 Talbot, Allum &amp; Lee Token, PCGS AU55 CAC.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tomorrow is another day.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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