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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hotpocket, post: 1990805, member: 44182&quot;]Overall, the show was very good.&nbsp; We went on saturday morning when the show opened at 9:30 and stayed until about 1pm.&nbsp; There were a lot of tables/dealers (more than I expected actually) -&nbsp; guessing maybe 75 dealers and over 100 tables? and the variety was pretty standard.&nbsp; Mostly US coins, not much world and few ancients.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have been collecting mostly world coins lately, specifically Germany and Italy, so there were only a few tables that had any real selection to speak of for me.&nbsp; Found a great dealer, his name was George Watson, and he treated me and my kids very well.&nbsp; Very nice man, and very knowledgable - he also gave us a great price on the coins we purchased.&nbsp; Seemed to be in it for the love of coins not so much for profit.&nbsp; We bought some coins from a few other tables as well, spent maybe $700 or so in total.&nbsp;&nbsp; It was a fun time and I was happy to see my kids get into it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many of the dealers were extremely friendly, especially when they saw my kids so interested in coins.&nbsp; A few gave them some free coins (mostly chinese coins), but you would have thought they gave my kids gold by the looks on their faces.&nbsp; My 7 year old looked at me and said &quot;Pop, am I allowed to take this for free?&quot;&nbsp; Precious moments.&nbsp;&nbsp; I appreciated all of the dealers that were nice to my kids - if any of you are reading this, THANK YOU.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did talked to one dealer about purchasing some silver (ASEs) and he wanted $23 an ounce.&nbsp; I asked him if he knew the price of silver was under $18, and he just said he wouldn&#039;t be able to sell for less than that.&nbsp;&nbsp; I thanked him, said I understood and politely passed.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only real &quot;negative&quot; was the facility.&nbsp; At first I wasn&#039;t even sure I was in the right building - I thought it was going to be in a conference center or exhibit hall in the hotel.&nbsp; Nope.&nbsp; It looked like an old gymnasium of a broken down old amusement park in the next parking lot over from the hotel.&nbsp; I won&#039;t go so far as to say it was a dump, but it seems to be headed in that direction.&nbsp; If you have been to coin shows in Vegas or other higher end hotels, you would have been disappointed here.&nbsp; Does that have a big impact on the coin show itself? Not really, but it wasn&#039;t exactly an inviting place. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t go to a lot of shows, so if you have specific questions about the Gettysburg event I will try to answer them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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