2016 ANA World's Fair Of Money

Have fun Cascade.

Hard to believe no one else from the site is going. Maybe they'll post later on. Hope so.

Same here, will miss for the first time in 3 years. Thanks for those interesting insights.

BStrauss3, thanks for that information.

"Cheapskates" made me laugh but I suppose it is very true, especially when compared to product shows and the like.

But I still love to go. I visit all the club tables and do all the stuff a tourist would do -- visit the mint tables and look at the exhibits. I shop very little at the show because it does seem to be all high end stuff and I am not confident in my ability to spot a fake. But I always have lots of fun.

If someone is going I need a favor. There is a new book on the Pratt quarter and half eagles debuting at the show and I would like a copy of it. If you can pick one up for me drop me an email. I can paypal you for the book and shipping and you should be able to ship it right there from the show floor so you don't have to carry it around.

I was there yesterday. It was the first coin show of any type I've attended. I was completely overwhelmed! There were too may vendors for me to take in. I ended up only spending a couple hundred dollars for various reasons, though the two big ones were not having a solid game plan and not realizing that most sellers don't take credit cards. I figured we were past the days where people with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise worked exclusively with cash, but I guess not! Was going to get a double eagle, but oh well!

My main plan was to fill holes in my type set but I was too vague in my own mind about just what I wanted and how much I wanted to spend. Though the biggest problem is I spent too long trying to find a seller with a decent selection of Trade dollars. What I thought I wanted was simple, a slabbed Trade dollar in AU condition (not real picky within that range) at a good price. Found a bunch of MS and PR dollars, and a number in lower grades but hardly anything in what I wanted. Though this gets back to my issue of too many sellers to take in. I may have walked right buy someone with a bunch for sale and not realized it because it was easy to lose track of where you've been and not been. I actually think it will be easier for me at a smaller show where I can spend time really seeing what sellers at most booths have.


I do agree with the comment about high end material. I found a few sellers with low grade coins and tons with high grade coins. Finding ones with a nice selection of mid-grade coins of the kinds I was looking for was a challenge.

Anyway, despite that I had a good time, filled a few 7070 holes and feel much more prepared for future shows.

No fooling! Talk about jumping into the deep end the first time in the pool.


Excellent!

I went today and plan to go again Saturday. They had $100,000 paper notes which was interesting to view. Other than that, a lot of dealers selling pretty much same/similiar coins...