Whitman Show Baltimore Hon!

It was really kind of a "meh" show for me. Seas of Morgans, type silver, and dang few raw Lincolns and the good ones almost all branch mints. Few Woodies. I didn't see a half-dozen cases of raw Lincolns worthy of individual display, just lots of albums. Only bought two coins (from Coins of Merritt) - a corroded 1861 IHC (backstory with pics maybe tomorrow) and a fairly decent 1920 Linc. I was in and out in two hours, counting a fully-disciplined first pass over every table before even considering a purchase.

I was there minutes after the public open, and 10% of the tables were already abandoned. The place will be a morgue tomorrow.

Not an encouraging show.

 

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Dealers seem to start heading out just after noon on Saturday. It's a great show for the public, but not really worth it unless you go Thursday or Friday. I do most of my buying and selling on Friday. By Saturday most of the good finds are long gone.

 

If you can't keep a good show into the weekend for the public, you're obviously not in it for the public. You can't expect the "public" to take days off work for a coin show.

 

Who was selling those? I vaguely remember walking past some skeletal remains, but I didn't know they were selling meteorites...

 

Snagged these up yesterday. I too got there at opening and by the time I walked through and started over,plenty of dealers had packed up and gone. Kind of disappointed in that. Next time I def need to go for Thursday-Saturday. Overall it was bigger then a lot of shows I've been too. Would like to come back.

 

I would love to see your tokens!

 

Dealers have to travel some making flights to Western states. That said they pay a hefty price for tables at this show. Leaving early only cut into their profits , but one must realize that dealers aren't willing to deal as much as smaller shows. Think about it...... $700-1000 @ table. Compare to a small show @$100. That is a big difference in the price of doing business . I noticed quite a few dealers sharing a table. Makes sense as two set of eyes ,shared cost, and able to take a break without leaving your inventory . I myself prefer smaller shows. The inventory doesn't change as much but you know whom you're dealing with,or whom to avoid .
I also like medium-sized shows the Gettysburg show. It draws from all the states surrounding Pa. Makes for a nice inventory to shop.

 

I don't enjoy conflict, and don't understand how anyone can. It's not "fun." Bad enough that I'm fighting my own mind sometimes, just to keep myself coherent in public, than to pile on attempts to talk about it. By the time words reach my mouth, my mind is already on to the next thing and I'm usually neither comfortable nor facile verbally. And even when I am, I'm speaking so fast you'd find that annoying too.

 

Picked this up a couple of weeks ago in a group of medals. Can you tell me how James Buchanan relates to your club?

 

I get the difference, and have as much fun with the latter as anyone else when I'm comfortable. But when you unintentionally antagonize people as often as I do, just trying to advance the cause of the point being discussed combined with no patience whatsoever with disinformation, you get risk-averse to yet more episodes pointing out your fundamental failings. Life is hard enough as it is and I'm already painfully aware of my social faults.

 

I passed you a half-dozen times without stopping - assuming you're the more slender gentleman of the pair at your table - although all but one of those times you were engaged with a customer and I wasn't going to hurry the potential transaction by standing and waiting.

There was a thread a while back where I typed something regarding Net grading that was not only entirely wrong, but entirely opposite what I knew and intended to type. It's how things are for me sometimes. You called me out on that, and it was not only in my mind yesterday, but the cause of my avoidance. I'd have to have been painfully honest about myself to have worked that out with you, which although it wouldn't have bothered me in the least - I'm big on encouraging dialogue about one's faults as part of the process of healing them, and helping others to realize it's OK to talk about - I really didn't want to test your comfort zone with such stuff because we all handle that differently.

That's the problem of online interaction vs. meatspace interaction. Chances are we would have leveraged that silly episode to build a genuine friendship, but you just_never_know when all the data you have about someone came from a flow of electrons. I firmly believe that some of the posters here I like the least, could be solid friends in real life, aside the fact that I have little respect for people who don't use their words online with the same self-defining importance as they would at the dinner table. Your words (and actions) are your reputation, wherever they're found.

 

So Mike what did you end up getting to eat at Tio's?

 

To use any stronger words would have been to paint myself similarly; I'm not exactly....bulky.

 

Point taken. Nonetheless, it is open to the public on those days. I always do well selling at the show, and so for me it is worth taking a day off to go on Friday. Unfortunately for the public, most dealers are there to do business with the other dealers, and by mid-day on Saturday, most of them are done.