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Message:: [QUOTE="illini420, post: 2078901, member: 19423"]It wasn't exclusively the dealers who were given preferential treatment to buy coins from the US Mint at Long Beach.  Anyone could have purchased an early bird pass (or gotten a pass from a friendly dealer) and would have had that same advantage as the dealers who have access to the bourse at 9am. That said, it didn't seem right that folks were allowed to purchase these in mass quantities at the show.  Seems to have held up the line quite a bit when the people who lined up early were buying the coins by the case.  Even though that happened, I didn't hear of the Mint selling out of any of the coins, with the exception of the 3-coin sets.  But even then, the coins in those 3-coin sets could have been bought individually and they are the same coins... just no fancy box. I think it's great the US Mint comes out to the Long Beach show and I hope they continue.  But they really should put a limit on how many coins each customer can buy at a time... at least on the first day of the show.  When they were at Long Beach last year selling the Baseball Hall of Fame half dollars (the others were sold out in advance of the show), they had a limit of 5 per person, but people were allowed to then get back in line to get 5 more over and over.  That seemed to work well and was much more fair to the average collector coming to the show.[/QUOTE]