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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Poll Question
Hey everyone just wondering how many people here will be attenting and what everyone is hoping to find? or which dealers they hope to catch up with?
p.s. if you want you can say which coins you are interested in and we can all keep a look out for you
Edited by oh my florin
09/12/2013 10:14 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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I collect all coins ancient to modern, all cultures. I have about 200 books and papers on the subject of numismatics generally.
That means for me, that ANYTHING in the show, in the $1 to $1,000 price range, may capture my interest.
It puts me in the ideal cherry picking position. I normally take a few hundred dollar notes to the Sydney ANDA show, and only very rarely come home with nothing.
I will also pay my yearly subscription for membership to the Australian Numismatic Society at the show, in person.
I normally go around the whole show, and inspect anything that captures my interest. That takes a couple of hours. I sit down have lunch, spend time catching up with a lot of my numismatic acquaintences, and spin a few friendly yarns over lunch. I will speak to anyone during lunch, that means novice collectors, long time numismatic buddies, and some dealers who know me fairly well. The afternoon is usually spent in negotiating new purchases.
Getting to the show is dead easy for me. No parking to worry about. $2.50 seniors' rail fare. 10 minutes walk from home to the railway station. Rail trip takes 45 minutes each way. The show istelf is two minutes walk from the railway station. I catch up with numismatic reading with material I may have acquired on the way home.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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What a wonderful way to spend a day. To those who attend I hope you go in with this positive attitude.!!  |
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Valued Member
Australia
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I'll be there, buying paper currency. I'll definitely stop by Tony James' stall, hes my favourite dealer, deals specifically in the area I collect and is not stingy.
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Valued Member
Australia
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I will be there on saturday ,  I need to drop off a shared pcgs submission coins to a fellow forum member , I will have a look to see if anything takes my fancy , but I am leaving my credit card a home  . I will be looking at florins and predec proofs . I will be lurking around Drake Sterling , and pacificrims coins to name a few . |
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Valued Member
Australia
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I will be there tomorrow, I primarily collect Canadian coins so I'm not expecting to find much, most of the dealers I have picked their Canadian stock clean by now. It doesn't look like a few of the dealers I like to visit are going to be there, hopefully I come home with a few things anyway and have a good time. If you want stamps stick to the Petersham show!  |
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Pillar of the Community
 Australia
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The show was pretty good there weren't as many dealers as a few years ago but generally the coins where very good and prices even better. Anyway today for me was a very new experience for me as I only purchased PCGS graded coins and also learnt a lot about using a magnifying glass and the values of PCGS coins (due to one very nice gentleman who gave me some great advice. A number of dealers deserve commendation including Drake Sterling and Pacific Rim Coins while a number deserve a less than satisfactory recommendation such as attempting to pass of cleaned and overgraded coins as well as just plain ignoring me. Anyway here are my pick ups from the show:
1910 Shilling MS64 (looks 65 to be honest)
1962 Shilling MS66
1963 Shilling MS65
1957M Threepence MS66
1958M Penny MS64RB
1964M Penny MS63RD
If you want you can guess how much I spent on each or in total and I will post up what I paid either later today or tomorrow.
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Valued Member
Australia
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Well done OMF , some nice grades there  , I think I was standing next to you when you brought some of those , no coin buys for me tho  ,i was trying to find raw coins to send to pcgs . |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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So it was you bellyflorin I would like to thank you so much for your help you convinced me of buying PCGS graded coins from now on. Anyway sad to hear you didn't find any coins but that luck with that 1964 MS65RD Penny is amazing.
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Valued Member
Australia
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If I knew it was you OMF , I would have got Chris (pacific rims)in a headlock for yar , and made him give you a discount hehe . But in reality ; I was happy to see pacific rims and drake sterling had plenty of very nice high graded but common dated coins in pcgs slabs for very low prices, just over slabbing costs I would say . Well done again OMF , you can drop me a message anytime , I will be happy to help. |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I reckon you total outlay for the coins was $375 OMF
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Haha thanks bellyflorin to be honest I had no idea it was you anyway what gave me away? my age? anyway stevo higher
Edited by oh my florin
09/14/2013 06:15 am
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I reckon your outlay was around the $700 mark
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1006 Posts |
Closer very close
Edited by oh my florin
09/14/2013 06:24 am
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Valued Member
Australia
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Hi OMF.
Saw you there as well, I was lurking behind bellyflorin when you were at Drake Sterling's display.
Glad to hear you've picked up a few nice coins. I hope they're to your satisfaction.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
1006 Posts |
Hi rbarat I didn't really see you much and thanks. I hope you found a few coins to add to your collection?
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