Coin Show And $500 - What Are You Buying?

Fantastic!

I am a 'vacuum cleaner' always looking for the best value for money across the whole of numismatics covering 2,600 years from when coins were first invented.
To be able to do this, decades of experience as a serious collector are needed, supported by an extensive numismatic library of over 100 books and scholarly numismatic references, covering the whole of numismatics.

My strategy at coin shows is to first limit myself to a budget (say, $500), and then survey the whole of the coin show, looking for best value for money. I then re visit those dealers where those bargains have been found, and negotiate within the $500 limit

Purchases could be anything from ancients medieval, milled or modern, from any coin issuing authority in the whole history of coinage.

Good value for money purchases are always easier to find, when one searches across the whole of numismatics.

Beautiful medal, Hondo!

That caballito is gorgeous! Very high on my want list,
but seldom available from the sources I frequent.

jbuck: Four of those 7070 holes are in the gold page.
At current spot, it looks like they are gonna be empty for awhile.

sel_69l, that is also my strategy, but 19th and 20th century coins are my comfort zone. Most of my purchases are for my personal collection, but I'm always on the lookout for easy flips.

This sounds like the kind of thing I tend to buy at coin fairs! To a lesser extent also coin shows; in my experience anything large enough to count as a "show" has enough interesting higher-end items that I end up making at least one big purchase, but there's often a bunch of smaller stuff too.

I miss Moscow; it had a lot of coin fairs and the occasional show. Israel has almost none of either, and hardly even any coin stores. I've been told that Haifa has a fair each Saturday morning but good luck getting to Haifa on a Saturday morning without having to spend the night there first.
(There is a bus arriving at 4 AM or so, and maybe some day I'll try that; it seems more convenient than having to find a place for the night.)

Sounds like an option.

I am not sure what time you normally get up, but I have to assume you can sleep on the bus. Or take a nap. I have no idea how long a ride that is for you.

Ah, so some extra planning will be required. I hope it eventually works out for you.