Annual Baystate Coin Show (Marlborough, Ma)

It is! It's the one show I go to every year and every year I am able to find enough stuff to completely blow my budget for the year.

Count on it, Jbuck! Who knows, I may even be able to snag a high-end 1972 Eisenhower Type 2 Reverse...

I go to this show every year. 100+ tables. Great variety: US and world coins, bullion, ancients, a few tables with banknotes too. Also a couple of coin clubs set up and show off some nice collections like one that has a great display of Barbers.

But you gotta get there early. I know it says the show is open till 7 on Friday but most dealers are gone by 3 or 4. And Saturday they're gone by 2PM. Give yourself lots of time, get there early, and have fun.

Also, bring some cash. A few years ago the ATM in the hotel lobby ran empty!

PS: the show is out in the 'burbs but at let there's lot of free parking.

Eons ago, when dinosaurs roamed and I was a teenage kid cutting his teeth in the weird shadowy world of buyer's agents, I drove across the country solo to catch the Bay State Show. That was in the late 1960s. I caught it several times from then to the 1980s and brought back many beautiful coins for my clients. Absolutely fantastic show, great location, great selection, and a lot of knowledgeable dealers. Those were good times! Your post on this show brought back many of those good memories. Best wishes to all for a great show.

Yep! It takes me about 45-50 minutes to drive there from my house with traffic, so I leave at 9:00 an get there just before it opens.


Absolutely! Cash is king, as they say. Last year I also brought some junk silver to trade, and I'm hoping to do the same this year if the price of silver is still above $50 by the time the show rolls around.

Well, I have to admit, "World's Fair of Money" certainly sounds a lot more impressive. I always find plenty of things to buy at the Bay State show, but it's really a show where you can see everything in 3-4 hours.

When I did the cross-country drive to this show as a teenager and early-20-something, it was a couple thousand miles of hard driving each way for my old Pontiac and me. I carried a stupid amount of cash and slept in a rest area in northern Indiana going and coming because I was too young to rent a motel room. I stayed with extended family a half hour or so outside of Boston. The show was at a fancy big hotel in downtown Boston. It sticks in my mind that it was a Hilton, but I could be wrong on that. There were always a stunning number of high end coins at this show and it was a Buffalo hunter's paradise. I found some great coins for my buyers and made good money on those deals. I was young, dumb, and fearless.