THe Silver Dollar Coin Show and Auction is this weekend in St Louis, MO Any local folks going to be able to make it? Unfortunately, I will be attending a company picnic for my hospital on friday and my wife's hospital on saturday so I will have to hold off until the Columbia MO show next weekend
I'm going for a couple hours on Friday. When and where is the Columbia show? I hadn't heard anything about that one.
I was mistaken.....it is not a Columbia show next weekend, the show/auction is in Springfield MO. Works out better for me ,about 90 minutes closer now lol
Well, the St. Louis show was great! I accomplished what I wanted to get done which was to sell 4 of my Roman Imperial coins that don't fit in my collection any more. It really was a bigger show than I thought it would be. There were LOTS of high quality coins on hand! There was so much great stuff that it's almost overwhelming and hard to know where to begin. In particular, I saw lots of really nice nineteenth century proof and proof-like coins...maybe it's just because I haven't looked at them before, but boy, I sure noticed them at this show. The thing that I totally dislike about so many coin shows, including this one, is this: The coin dealers pack up and leave early on the last day! This show ran Thursday, Friday and Saturday. For people like me that actually work during the week, Saturday is the only day I can make it! Probably 30 - 40% of the dealers weren't there and I got there right about 10:15...just after the show opened at 10:00! That just plain stinks! On Thursday and Friday, the hours are 10-6. Most people get off so late that they can't get there then either. I think the show organizers should require the dealers to be there for the whole show, like some of them have now. Fortunately, there were still enough dealers to make it a good show for me.
tcore, by the time I left at 3:00 pm Friday, there were quite a few dealers who had left, or were leaving. It was a great show though.
