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Contacts made with dealers often payoff, not necessarily immediately, but down the road. Could not agree more Numerous times I have casually mentioned certain rather obscure areas I collect to dealers, and passed them along my information, and months later, get a call that they have something which is right up my alley |
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It always appears that so many have little experiences with a variety of coin shows. As a general rule a coin show is nothing but a flea market but mostly for coins. They are like computer shows, knife shows, guns shows, camera shows, etc. Just a place where a very large variety and quantity of similar merchandises are found. Some such shows are large and have a large variety of dealers. Some are small and have repeditive dealers. Some are small and have a variety of dealers from a variety of places. Some charge to get in, some charge to park your car, some charge for coffee and something to eat. Some have door prices, some have a table with flyers and free copies of coin magazines. Some are in Hotels, some in convention centers, some in just halls. Some no photos are allowed and some don't care. At some shows people sell as well as buy coins.
I go to about 2 to 4 coin shows a Month and have been doing that for many, many years. I've seen some coins sold and resold several times at one show. I saw one coin sold several times in the first hour of a show. So yes you can find a coin and resell for more if you know what your doing and find the right coin.
I only buy at coin shows due to I've never been able to beat the prices I find at a coin show. And no postage, handling, insurances, etc. Just the cost of the coins. Unfortunately most people don't have the massive amount of coin shows within their areas as I do and I wish we had more.
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I'm excited for the F.U.N. Summer Show in Orlando next month. Can't wait.
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just carl, thank you for your comments. You're lucky to have so many coin shows in your area. I live in a pretty large metro area (Denver), and we typically have two large, two small, and six medium sized coin shows per year in this area. If I want to go to more shows in a year it's at least an hour drive.
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Would anybody share a web resource that has a listing of shows based on geography?
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-----Burton 50+ year / Life / Emeritus ANA member (joined 12/1/1973) Life member: Numismatics International, CONECA Member: TNA, FtWCC, NETCC, EveryCountry (online) coin club Owned by three cats and a wife of 40+ years (joined 1983) Author: 3rd Edition of the Sample Slabs book, https://www.sampleslabs.info/ |
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Does ccf come out to any west coast shows?
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It's a great experience for the dealers to tell you that what you are selling are out of favor and no one wants to buy them. While the coins you are interested in are in hot demand, and selling for a lot more than you think you should pay.
Then reverse it and try to buy the coins they say are out of favor, and guess what they won't have any to sell. And offer them the ones they say are hot, and "no thanks I already have plenty of them for sale".
Then there are plenty of good dealers out there, just be wary of the ones who poor mouth your coins.
One tip - be wary of buying uncertified paper money that is valued say $250 and up. I have gotten burned every time from several well known dealers when I had them certified and they came back in significantly lower grades than what was represented.
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06/03/2015 10:10 am
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Does ccf come out to any west coast shows? I would also like to know. In Washington, there don't seem to be many shows, just the annual PNNA one. Does anyone know of shows in Western WA, Northwest OR or even Southern BC? |
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While we are asking about the "does CCF go to this one..." what about the Chicago area? :D
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Would anybody share a web resource that has a listing of shows based on geography? It is not easy. Like I mentioned before, not all such show listings are complete. I don't know why but for some reason almost any listings are missing some or lots of shows. What I've done in the past is go to Google and type in coin shows in your State. Then also try Yahoo. Just don't know why there isn't a listing of coin shows that is complete. I've been told that not all people that control shows spread that info enough but at one show I've asked why that one is seldom mentioned and was told didn't know. One sort of sure way is to find one show and go there and start asking dealers. At many of the shows I go to there is a table up front with flyers for more shows and coin stores. At one show also free copies of either Coin World or Numismedia newsletters. As I said it is not really easy to find all of them. Quote:
While we are asking about the "does CCF go to this one..." what about the Chicago area? :D Don't know about CCF going to any in the Chicago area but lots of memebers are there at most of them. Minimum of 3 a Month within about 15 miles of me. Edited by just carl
06/03/2015 10:39 am
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BStrauss3, just carl, thank you very much.
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06/03/2015 10:50 am
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 Thanks for the answers! Hope to see some members at the ANA maybe! |
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