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<p>[QUOTE="GoldFinger1969, post: 4196321, member: 73489"]<b><font size="5"><span style="color: #00b300">Garden State Coin & Currency Show / PARSIPPANY, NJ Update: </span></font></b></p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>You know, this show kinda grows on you after a bit of time. </i></b><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It's not so huge that you need a whole day to go through it or multiple days like FUN or ANA or whatever. But it's big enough that there's enough interesting merchandise and inventory that you aren't in-and-out like I was at the other NJ coin shows (see above) in 10-15 minutes or so. </p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #0000ff">There was the normal 50 dealers, 100 tables, and maybe 150 trays. </span></b> I stayed almost 2 hours today, hitting all the stuff. Didn't see anything costing 5-figures (except a pricey proof set of gold Eagles running about $8K) but plenty of nice modern bullions and plenty of common and semi-scarce Morgans and Saint-Gaudens that were running a few hundred to a few thousand dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few currency dealers...plenty of folks with 2X2s....didn't notice it at the time, but not many CAC stickered coins (some here-or-there but no dealer with lots of them)....decent modern and older gold and silver Eagles, Kruggerands, Maple Leafs, etc. A few dozen (hundred ?) ancient/foreigns but I didn't have the $$$ for them so I didn't look closely.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #0000ff">Just a few low-budget purchases, all in the $35-$50 range....</span></b>a Chinese Panda MS70, a 2004-W Silver Eagle PR69 DCAM, and an Australian Wedge Tailed Eagle Reverse Proof (I love the Wedge Tail Eagle series, the gold coins are on my backup wishlist if I can't get the $$$ for a 1907 HR in a year or two).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GoldFinger1969, post: 4196321, member: 73489"][B][SIZE=5][COLOR=#00b300]Garden State Coin & Currency Show / PARSIPPANY, NJ Update: [/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [B][I]You know, this show kinda grows on you after a bit of time. [/I][/B]:D It's not so huge that you need a whole day to go through it or multiple days like FUN or ANA or whatever. But it's big enough that there's enough interesting merchandise and inventory that you aren't in-and-out like I was at the other NJ coin shows (see above) in 10-15 minutes or so. [B][COLOR=#0000ff]There was the normal 50 dealers, 100 tables, and maybe 150 trays. [/COLOR][/B] I stayed almost 2 hours today, hitting all the stuff. Didn't see anything costing 5-figures (except a pricey proof set of gold Eagles running about $8K) but plenty of nice modern bullions and plenty of common and semi-scarce Morgans and Saint-Gaudens that were running a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. A few currency dealers...plenty of folks with 2X2s....didn't notice it at the time, but not many CAC stickered coins (some here-or-there but no dealer with lots of them)....decent modern and older gold and silver Eagles, Kruggerands, Maple Leafs, etc. A few dozen (hundred ?) ancient/foreigns but I didn't have the $$$ for them so I didn't look closely. [B][COLOR=#0000ff]Just a few low-budget purchases, all in the $35-$50 range....[/COLOR][/B]a Chinese Panda MS70, a 2004-W Silver Eagle PR69 DCAM, and an Australian Wedge Tailed Eagle Reverse Proof (I love the Wedge Tail Eagle series, the gold coins are on my backup wishlist if I can't get the $$$ for a 1907 HR in a year or two).[/QUOTE]
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