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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 8418343, member: 105571&quot;]Third and final day at the show.&nbsp; Arrived 8:30 and attended the EAC Region 4 meeting.&nbsp; Sparse, only 7 people there but had some nice chat for 40 minutes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Went to a dealer that had 3 1877 IHCs in MS grades and asked him about the MS-61 in a PCGS slab.&nbsp; He was asking $6500.&nbsp; Wow!&nbsp; Greysheet is $3400.&nbsp; PCGS Price Guide is $5000.&nbsp; I guess he&#039;s hoping for the &quot;Greater Fool&quot;.&nbsp; But the reason I mention this is because I saw some significant evidence of over-pricing (IMHO) at the show.&nbsp; Not everywhere and not every dealer, but if you were looking for key dates, etc. you were not going to find a decent deal.</p><p><br /></p><p>OTOH, I found the show to be significantly short of a lot of different material:&nbsp; Almost no Colonials;&nbsp; I was looking for a Spanish Colonies Cob and the stuff I saw was over-priced and mediocre;&nbsp; I was looking for a No Motto Eagle and almost nothing available;&nbsp; looking for a nice fully-struck 1919 or 1920 SLQ and just junk on display.&nbsp; I acknowledge that my interests and tastes may not reflect the general interests, but I found the show indicative of the continuing lack of good and fresh material.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, in conversations with dealers and show officials, the general sentiment was that the show had been a success.&nbsp; Dealers apparently did a ton of business and weren&#039;t griping - that in itself is pretty amazing.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was tending my local coin club table today and we had lots of families with young kids and also the Boy Scouts.&nbsp; I gave out tons of swag and lobbied the local parents to come to the club meeting to try it out.&nbsp; Fun!</p><p><br /></p><p>This Summer FUN was in the South Concourse which was a bit of a hike through the building from the parking lot.&nbsp; Next January, the Winter FUN show will be in the North Concourse which is an easy, short walk from the parking lot and the bourse is right there, not a quarter-mile walk through the center.&nbsp; Doesn&#039;t mean anything to you young-uns but it does to us oldsters.</p><p><br /></p><p>I only bought one coin today, a nice 1833 Half Dime, PCGS AU53, LM-3, R-4.&nbsp; As a measure of the desert conditions at the show for me, I only spent 40% of my show budget when I normally overspend my FUN show budget.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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