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02/14/2015 12:34 pm
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Hello Tbone, I'm an avid World Coin Collector and I am planning on attending the show. I live in Washington state. My coin show attendance experience is limited to couple of pacific northwest coin shows. I am a little concerned if this big show will cater to "economy" collectors like me (Portland is a 4 hour one-way drive for me). Any idea on how different this show is to the regular state level coin shows? And any tips for the newbies? :) As a side note, it appears that ANA has another big show each year "World's fair of Money". How is this different from the Money show? |
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ANA has two shows with different names. The WfoM (World's Fair of Money) in the summer - Chicago again this year. And then the National Money show in the early spring which is in Portland this year.
-----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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@ morondrill 4 hours one-way is a long way to drive for a show. Unless you can make more out of the trip like some sight seeing. The big boy dealers will certainly be there but there will likely be many, many smaller regional dealers too. If click on the floor-link above you'll see in the left hand column the names of the dealers and it looks like quite a few are from the Northwest. A big show like this is quite a spectacle. There's also going to be a really nice Stack's Bowers auction Friday night that should be fun to attend even if you don't bid. If you've never been to a show of this size it's something to experience. Oh, and welcome to the sight.  Edited by Tbone
02/15/2015 10:36 pm
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The interesting thing about PNW shows - I've been working there for several years and attending shows when I can - is that even the larger ones (the PNNA annual show) - are mostly regional in dealer pops. Last time Charmy came up (but hey - sorry - there are vineyards in WA state) and there were a couple other CA dealers. But after them, the next farthest a dealer travelled was from Idaho.
Same deal on the weekend shows - most of the shows in the Seattle area are the same group of dealers, but the show's I've been to in Portland/Salem - 2 hours south or so - have very few cross-overs.
So it will be a blast to see the mix of nationals and regionals.
-----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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I got my catalog in the mail today from Stack's Bowers for this auction. This looks like it's going to be a great auction. It takes place Friday, March 6th. They'll send a catalog to you free of charge if you request it. http://www.stacksbowers.com/home/contactus.aspx |
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Be there for sure wouldn't miss it. We go to all the PNNA shows as well. A ferry ride and then 2 hours down the freeway !
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Making the 5.5 hour drive!  Have my eye on 1 coin...that plan will go to **** when I enter the bourse floor. Hopefully at the show early Friday, stay in Portland (good eats!) hit it again Saturday and head home. Been waiting all year for this one. I'm excited!  |
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We are here and it is very quiet to say the least. You will not get run over in the aisles that is for sure.
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There was a decent amount of traffic. Not wall to wall, but steady. A lot of dealer 2 dealer. I got there at 9:30 and left at 5:30 and almost every dealer said it was decent or better. Several said they had already made their show goals on Thursday.
One of the reasons the place looked so empty was that the Fire Marshall made them reset the show with FIFTEEN foot aisles. This means the aisles were significantly larger than the booths were deep. I'm used to local shows where 6' is generous.
Hopefully tomorrow will be a good retail day.
I'm happy - found a key piece I've been looking for, an 1852 3CS in XF. Shouldn't have been hard to find, but I was holding out for a nice one.
Oh and the convention medal is gorgeous...
TEC [The Elongated Club] was there to smashing success...
-----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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Overall a great show! It was busy though (at least the dealers I wanted to talk to). I actually only got to say hi to 3 out of 5. Got my coin though! Stayed pretty solid with only 3 purchases (could have been so much worse!)  Portland is a great venue but I wish the big shows would come to Seattle! |
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If you read the posting on CU from Governor Greg Lyon, Seattle doesn't want us. It's a long thread but worth reading... here - it makes clear the difficulties in scheduling ANA shows because of how poorly we fit the model. -----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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I read it and also talked to some dealers about it, it's depressing. There are always options though. Tukwila, Burien, Boeing (always thought that would be feasible since they have their own small show), just to name a few. New convention center in Spokane (I really don't like Spokane lived there a few years) but hey I'd go! |
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People are so off on the sizing, it's almost funny. Exhibit halls D+E at the OCC where ANA was is 93K square feet. Could we have used a little less, sure, but the 61K for just D would have been cramped... And that's 1/5th to 1/6th of the size of the Summer show... So even Tukwila is too small. The whole facility is only 48K sq ft and parking for just 300 cars. The gym is maybe 12K. Boeing is just a gym, maybe 12K sq ft... Even the state fair center in Puallyup is only 100K sq ft... -----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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If anyone cares to remember there was an ANA convention in Seattle WA years ago at the Seattle Convention Center ( the CNA in Vancouver was also the next week). It was probably one of the worst ANA conventions ever. Granted the Coin market was in decline and other things just weren't quite right. The Seattle area is very active as far as the hobby goes . The PNNA shows in Tukwila WA in the Spring and the January Boeing shows are always worth attending, and I might add are most enjoyable. As to Spokane WA great community with lots of volunteer spirit. Smallest city ever to host a Worlds Fair and they did a heck of a job! Not so sure how active the coin community is in Eastern WA ,ID area. |
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