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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 518830, member: 16510&quot;]Well we had our annual 2-day show in K-Town this past weekend, lots of folks say 350 to 500 came through. There was a lot of tire kickers wow!</p><p>Even the mom and pops who usually spend only about $40 to $75 were not buying. It was sort of sad and discouraging indicating real concern for the economy. Many people were talking about this financial market as a &quot;perfect storm&quot; we have not even begone to see the full effects of. Now I am not one of those &quot;buy ammunition and run out in the street&quot; people at all, far from it but it makes a body wonder, and worry some.</p><p>People were bringing in nice stuff though like full sets and such and they were getting good money for them. Silver was being bought at 9.9% but it was not being sold very much at all. I don&#039;t even know about gold except proof 10th oz. were bringing $85 wholesale to about $95.</p><p>I thought my gem Lincoln&#039;s would go good but it was not the case, maybe next month. Paper was dead as doornail from what I saw but I really did not pay attention. People were not buying modern singles at all. To sum it up the buying and selling activity was down about 45% from last year.</p><p>I really don&#039;t know about this so called &quot;perfect storm&quot; people were talking about but I do know that our new president as far as I can see has done virtually nothing else but work on the economy so it must be very serious.</p><p><b>Don&#039;t at all want this to be a political thread just thought I would give you&#039;all my observations of the coin market in K-Town 1st weekend of Feb. 2008.</b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ben Peters</p><p>home of &quot;The Knoxville Coin Show&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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