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<p>[QUOTE="GoldFinger1969, post: 4085071, member: 73489"]<b><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff">Colts Neck Coin Show Report:</span></font></b> OK, this is my first -- and LAST -- report on the Colts Neck Coin Show. Unless I happen to make friends who live within a few miles of the show, I can't see myself going again anytime soon unless and until the Jets win the Super Bowl and the Knicks are crowned NBA Champions. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> A 3-hour roundtrip to check it out and I spent about 15 minutes there.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you're a sports fan, you get my drift: <b><span style="color: #ff0000">there really wasn't much there to see at this show.</span></b> About 20 dealers (maybe 15)....about 40 tables...but I'd say 75% of them were baseball cards and the like. You had maybe 10 glass displays of coins and most of those were white 2x2's and low-graded stuff, mostly moderns/recents. I didn't see any high-quality Morgans, graded or not, and not 1 Saint-Gauden. A few displays with proof sets...1 dealer with a few dozen of such.....mostly low-priced graded pennies or nickels. Kinda surprising because the area is a very-high income area of NJ, not unlike Mt. Kisco NY (whose show was clearly much more upscale).</p><p><br /></p><p><b>I figured I should try and buy SOMETHING</b> and was debating buying a 2018-W PR69DCAM penny (<i>hey, what happened to the Lincoln Memorial on the back ?</i>) but I had a hard time spending any $$$ on something I just wan't crazy about even as a memento of what will be a trip more renowned for being a waste than of anything intersting collecting-wise. Luckily, a guy had a <b><span style="color: #b30000">1987-S American Silver Eagle PR69 DCAM </span></b>and I figured whatthehell. Laid out the $$$...drove back home....and here I am.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don't get me wrong: <b>I'm GLAD this show exists</b>, it's just not worth going to for 99% of CoinTalk unless you live less than 10 minutes from the show (and maybe not even then). Heck, I bought a coin to support the cause so I hope it continues. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> A few youngsters were there, hopefully they catch the buzz.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's a bit sad because I can imagine that many of those baseball card sellers, in a somewhat semi-rural area of NJ (about 45 minutes west of the Jersey Shore), once had entire areas of square miles all to themselves as kids would come out at 3 PM every day or every few days to survey the card merchandise. I suspect that all or virtually all of them now operate out of their houses and do the card stuff PT as you can't make a living doing it FT let along paying rent and running a physical store.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Anyway, as Dennis Miller used to say on SNL, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.</i> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GoldFinger1969, post: 4085071, member: 73489"][B][SIZE=5][COLOR=#0000ff]Colts Neck Coin Show Report:[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] OK, this is my first -- and LAST -- report on the Colts Neck Coin Show. Unless I happen to make friends who live within a few miles of the show, I can't see myself going again anytime soon unless and until the Jets win the Super Bowl and the Knicks are crowned NBA Champions. :D A 3-hour roundtrip to check it out and I spent about 15 minutes there. If you're a sports fan, you get my drift: [B][COLOR=#ff0000]there really wasn't much there to see at this show.[/COLOR][/B] About 20 dealers (maybe 15)....about 40 tables...but I'd say 75% of them were baseball cards and the like. You had maybe 10 glass displays of coins and most of those were white 2x2's and low-graded stuff, mostly moderns/recents. I didn't see any high-quality Morgans, graded or not, and not 1 Saint-Gauden. A few displays with proof sets...1 dealer with a few dozen of such.....mostly low-priced graded pennies or nickels. Kinda surprising because the area is a very-high income area of NJ, not unlike Mt. Kisco NY (whose show was clearly much more upscale). [B]I figured I should try and buy SOMETHING[/B] and was debating buying a 2018-W PR69DCAM penny ([I]hey, what happened to the Lincoln Memorial on the back ?[/I]) but I had a hard time spending any $$$ on something I just wan't crazy about even as a memento of what will be a trip more renowned for being a waste than of anything intersting collecting-wise. Luckily, a guy had a [B][COLOR=#b30000]1987-S American Silver Eagle PR69 DCAM [/COLOR][/B]and I figured whatthehell. Laid out the $$$...drove back home....and here I am. Don't get me wrong: [B]I'm GLAD this show exists[/B], it's just not worth going to for 99% of CoinTalk unless you live less than 10 minutes from the show (and maybe not even then). Heck, I bought a coin to support the cause so I hope it continues. :D A few youngsters were there, hopefully they catch the buzz. It's a bit sad because I can imagine that many of those baseball card sellers, in a somewhat semi-rural area of NJ (about 45 minutes west of the Jersey Shore), once had entire areas of square miles all to themselves as kids would come out at 3 PM every day or every few days to survey the card merchandise. I suspect that all or virtually all of them now operate out of their houses and do the card stuff PT as you can't make a living doing it FT let along paying rent and running a physical store. [I]Anyway, as Dennis Miller used to say on SNL, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.[/I] :p[/QUOTE]
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