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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Stork, post: 13385591, member: 71642&quot;]Oh my!&nbsp; I would dearly love to see that article if you could link it.&nbsp; $150K is NOT a typical price at all!&nbsp; I have spent close to all of 1% of that on the coin that is the most I&#039;ve ever spent ever ever ever.&nbsp; There are plenty of lower cost coins.&nbsp; Yes, plenty of high end coins as well but I am no where near that price point.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I am a collector of non-US almost exclusively (I have a 7070 that is not complete and probably the last time I got a coin for it was about 5 years ago).&nbsp; I also collect medals.&nbsp; Now, this is a premier show of course so there isn&#039;t a lot of super low price stuff (you won&#039;t find the row boxes to roll through or the &#039;5 for a $1&#039; type situation.&nbsp; But I&#039;ve gotten some much more modest coins there.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>And yes, lots of Ancients but I have yet to go strongly into that direction and have barely enough time to get through all the tables.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a dealer list:&nbsp; <a href="https://www.nyinc.info/dealers.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.nyinc.info/dealers.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.nyinc.info/dealers.php</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I am mildly chagrined at how many I have bought from <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; But look at the websites for the US based ones and you can see the wide variety of price ranges.&nbsp; Boardwalk, Civitas, Karl Stephens, Allen Berman, Daniel Whyman are names that really jump out as ones I have gotten lower price coins from more recently.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Atlas, Andy Lustig, CRO, higher priced ones, but still a wide variety of material price points, oh and Stephen Album (both via auction and in person) and some of those were definitely not super pricey.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>And that was my first quick run through.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure I&#039;ve slighted someone.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Steve Itkin for medals (that said he is the source of a couple of my most wildly expensive medals, as well as more reasonable) and Paul Bosco for medals.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Jeffery Zarit I&#039;ve not bought from but he has a wide range.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Harlan J. Berk world and ancients, though his daughter is there (Shanna Schmidt) and is more ancients.&nbsp; Hmm, Louis Teller too.&nbsp; Not to mention the more auction-y house type ones.&nbsp; Oh, and technically I haven&#039;t bought from CRO, they just have cool stuff and I&#039;ve been too slow a few times.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, I&#039;m not going to look anymore but surely there are more and maybe I don&#039;t remember the generic names as much. </p><p><br /></p><p>Another thing is to look at the non-bourse events.&nbsp; Some of the auctions might have a session you want to sit on.&nbsp; And I think I mentioned the fact you can go to lot viewings and basically hold any cool coin you want is AMAZING.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and here is the list of meetings.&nbsp; Medals, ancients, Asian coins, and more.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="https://www.nyinc.info/events.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.nyinc.info/events.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.nyinc.info/events.php</a></p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, I can count on 1 finger the times I&#039;ve spent 1% of what that article seems to have implied.&nbsp; And it was at a European auction house.&nbsp; I&#039;ve gone over $5K on one hand.&nbsp; Once was indeed from a bourse seller at NYINC.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the flip side I have some stuff listed at Stacks, so if the prices are insanely high I won&#039;t complain.&nbsp; If anything a stronger dollar is a detriment.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yes, there will be people placing those $150K coins, but that is no different than the US market and big US shows too.&nbsp; There is room for the more average Joe/Jane too!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve never been to FUN though.&nbsp; If it&#039;s like a Whitman (which I do enjoy thoroughly), then I prefer the NYINC by far.&nbsp; Maybe higher end on average, but so cool otherwise.&nbsp; ANA World Fair is probably more interesting along the lines my more typical purchase, and the events there can also be quite interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, perhaps I&#039;m being a little biased if only because I also get to meet people in NYC that don&#039;t go to the other shows <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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