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<p>[QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2615896, member: 71723"]They advise you to start with an overview of the exhibits, like you were a casually interested viewer, which we did. It was obvious to both of us that Nick had a different problem from mine. His was way too much good stuff to sort out, and mine was finding a score decent enough to justify a reward at all. The general quality of U.S. Coins exhibits lately is NOT good. Too many flippers and profit turners, and too few people doing serious collections any more. Or maybe most people think U.S. Coins will be too full of great stuff and they go toward other material. Either way, 'taint happenin'. U.S. Coins exhibiting is a relative wasteland. And it wasn't just there at FUN - it's a trend I've noticed at ANA shows, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 2016, I went to the decennial International Philatelic Exposition in NYC. At their show, 80% of floor area was exhibits, and only 20% bourse, and the 20 included national postal administration booths. Coins are the opposite. Bourse out the wazoo, but very little in exhibits. Gotta get all that gold and silver bullion into the hands of the "true believer" economic apocalypse-istas, I guess.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So after Nick and I had a chance to view the exhibits from the 30,000 foot level, we decided to try to look up friends - Rhonda Scurek, Kim Kiick, and John and Nancy Wilson at the ANA booth, Kathy McFadden at ICTA, Dave Harper at Krause Publications/NN, Charles Morgan from CoinWeek, and as always, David Lisot and his trusty video rig (hot date!) from Cointelevision.com. Bourse visits interspersed. Nick found a few box stock dealers to search for Soviet material, and my first day purchases were limited to the U.S. Mint. A 2016 edge-lettered burnished ASE and the 5-coin ATB clad 2017 proof set. I get one of those each year to keep my Dansco album up to date. No time like the present.</p><p><br /></p><p>We browsed way more than we bought on Day 1, but made a list of booth numbers to return to later. No major show is done until I visit the Mac Daddy of exonumia, Paul Cunningham. I'm working on an exhibit, and Paul usually has SOMETHING I can add to it. He did. I did. Day 1 would end with those 3 items purchased - two from the Mint, one from Paul.</p><p><br /></p><p>As my son says, I work a "social game" at major shows. It's more fun for me than "getting stuff", and the stuff I do get is kinda "off the beaten track". Guilty.</p><p><br /></p><p>We decided to end Day 1 at the "Spider Press" / old BEP engravers' booth for the show souvenir card drawing at 4. My son won #20 of 200 (for the whole show) to add to his ANA Boston 2010 one. These are a rapidly dying art. Engraving for even our currency is going digital. /sigh[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2615896, member: 71723"]They advise you to start with an overview of the exhibits, like you were a casually interested viewer, which we did. It was obvious to both of us that Nick had a different problem from mine. His was way too much good stuff to sort out, and mine was finding a score decent enough to justify a reward at all. The general quality of U.S. Coins exhibits lately is NOT good. Too many flippers and profit turners, and too few people doing serious collections any more. Or maybe most people think U.S. Coins will be too full of great stuff and they go toward other material. Either way, 'taint happenin'. U.S. Coins exhibiting is a relative wasteland. And it wasn't just there at FUN - it's a trend I've noticed at ANA shows, too. In 2016, I went to the decennial International Philatelic Exposition in NYC. At their show, 80% of floor area was exhibits, and only 20% bourse, and the 20 included national postal administration booths. Coins are the opposite. Bourse out the wazoo, but very little in exhibits. Gotta get all that gold and silver bullion into the hands of the "true believer" economic apocalypse-istas, I guess.:rolleyes: So after Nick and I had a chance to view the exhibits from the 30,000 foot level, we decided to try to look up friends - Rhonda Scurek, Kim Kiick, and John and Nancy Wilson at the ANA booth, Kathy McFadden at ICTA, Dave Harper at Krause Publications/NN, Charles Morgan from CoinWeek, and as always, David Lisot and his trusty video rig (hot date!) from Cointelevision.com. Bourse visits interspersed. Nick found a few box stock dealers to search for Soviet material, and my first day purchases were limited to the U.S. Mint. A 2016 edge-lettered burnished ASE and the 5-coin ATB clad 2017 proof set. I get one of those each year to keep my Dansco album up to date. No time like the present. We browsed way more than we bought on Day 1, but made a list of booth numbers to return to later. No major show is done until I visit the Mac Daddy of exonumia, Paul Cunningham. I'm working on an exhibit, and Paul usually has SOMETHING I can add to it. He did. I did. Day 1 would end with those 3 items purchased - two from the Mint, one from Paul. As my son says, I work a "social game" at major shows. It's more fun for me than "getting stuff", and the stuff I do get is kinda "off the beaten track". Guilty. We decided to end Day 1 at the "Spider Press" / old BEP engravers' booth for the show souvenir card drawing at 4. My son won #20 of 200 (for the whole show) to add to his ANA Boston 2010 one. These are a rapidly dying art. Engraving for even our currency is going digital. /sigh[/QUOTE]
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