Whitman Baltimore Spring show

It's a medium size show. With a lot dealers from the surrounding states. Some also from the mid west,and up North. You may be able to go to coinzip.com shows and see who will be setting up. As most dealers who have set up at past shows do return each year.
* Just checked if you go to the web site you can see who's already committed to being at the show . The show has always sold out of tables.

 

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Thanks for the thorough write up. It almost feels like I was there

 

I highly recommend going! Lots to look at for a medium show and reasonable prices. Paddy talked me into it last year and I'm so glad he did.

 

Great points Paddy! Local shows have always gotten me the best deals.

 

when is Gettysburg?

 

@Cascade Did your matte proof sell at the auction?

 

$41k.

https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/lots/view/3-6Y71I

 

That's pretty low for what it was. Congrats to him, tho.

 

Wow. That's great. It was fun watching the story behind the coin.

 

Yeah. It went for a little less than expected but that's auctions for you. I think being in between Blue Moon & Pogue might have had something to do with it. A lot of coins in that auction were going for a bit less than expected. All in all I'm happy though. Now its on to the next!

 

Mid September, I think.

 

Yup, September 15-16

Link to show site... http://battlefieldcoinshows.com/Gettysburg.html

 

It's Spring.

 

I've been attending the Baltimore Whitman shows for more then twenty years. Usually, 250 - 300 dealers from all over the country and usually a few from Canada, Mexico and the EU are in attendance. It is not a regional show. Thursday morning is reserved for dealer to dealer sales. I usually attend Thursday afternoons when it is not crowded.

 

Frank did you read the thread? Post #59
9/15 - 9/16/17
And Ken plans to old man nap you!

 

I never have identified ToughCoins, what booth number was this? I will try to remember next time. I did pick up a couple of nice coins for my collection (1937D raw Washington quarter uncirculated, and a PCGS slabbed 1936 Cleveland Centennial commemorative in MS65). Plus some assorted proof sets to use in filling out my modern sets. Spent about $300 total. Most of the stuff at the shows is way outside my budget, but it is nice to see some of it in person instead of just in the pages of the Red Book or Coin World.

 

My best purchase was MegaRed 3rd edition. It's kinda why I went.

There's just something about carrying around a book that can dislocate your shoulder.

 

He was at 829. You'd probably remember him for (among other things) thirty or so pieces of US gold, not Registry-level stuff but nice original examples the average Joe would be pretty pleased to add to the typeset. When that particular hole comes time to fill for me, he's who I'm going to buy it from.

 

This ended up being a better than average show for me. I sold all the slabbed material I brought to sell, and most of the raw material, and I found a few nice additions for my collections.

I picked up an 1848B 10 Krajczar Hungarian Kingdom coin in an NGC MS63 slab as part of a trade. I've only been collecting the War of Independence issues from that year, but the coin was nearly PL with good eye appeal so I made an exception.

I also picked up 3 AU bust quarters for my Browning variety set. The first two I bought from David Kahn on Friday; an 1831 B-1 Small Letters (with berries) in a PCGS AU53 slab, and an 1831 B-3 Small Letters also PCGS AU53. The B-1 is an R3 and the most significant small letters variety. The coin has great eye appeal, is a solid 53, and has toning that matches the 1837 B-1 I bought from him last year. The B-3 is on the lower end for a 53 with neutral eye appeal, but as the variety is an R5 with a condition rarity above XF40, I figured it might be years before I saw another in that grade. I submitted both coins to cross to NGC while I was at the show.

On Saturday I picked up an 1834 B-4 from The Reeded Edge. The coin is a common variety (R1), but it was in my favorite grade for this series (AU55), a late die state, and had lovely gold and silver toning with hints of purple and orange. That one is also in a PCGS slab, but the grade was solid. The obverse is above average for a 55, and the reverse was a 58 with only light luster breaks on the eagle's head and upper wings and no real wear on the wings or claws. I will cross this to NGC for my registry set at the next show, as they were already closed by the time I picked this up.

In a typical year I only find maybe 2-3 bust quarters that meet my requirements for grade, eye appeal, and die state at a reasonable price, so finding 3 in one show is quite astounding. Normally even at Whitman I'm used to seeing only a few, but I must've seen about a dozen on the bourse this time. Most were either varieties I already had or they didn't have an eye appeal/rarity combination that I found acceptable, but that there were that many at the show was quite notable.

 

rats, I 'll be there Oct 28/29 weekend in Gettysburg for the FMDAC metal detecting hunt