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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Only -50 with windchill for my little drive tomorrow...might plug in tonight!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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My brother called from Regina today its a deep freeze there as well I'm happy to be here its only around zero but with a wind makes it fell cooler but no where near -50
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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So - who went to the show and was it worth it?
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It was a pretty good show overall. Saturday was quite busy, despite the cold weather. Sunday was fairly slow, but I was still making pretty steady sales right up until the very end.
It being my first show behind the table, I didn't get nearly as much time as I wanted out on the floor exploring and checking out what was available. I did manage to pick up a few pieces on brief <10 minute journies across the floor. But with a table, your primary focus really has to be attending to customers at your table.
I arrived right around 7:45am shortly after it opened up for set up. I had one table and two coffin cases to start. I had filled my two cases and still had a lot of better material to showcase, so I tracked down an organizer and in no time I had a third case on my table to use.
As I was finishing my setup, a couple dealers were already picking through my inventory. I sold a couple US gold pieces to a dealer who specialized in them. A scarcer date Liberty head $10 piece and a common date Indian head $5 in AU+/maybe BU (I am terrible at grading those things, I've only ever owned two). The same dealer came back later after I had finished setting up, only made an offer on one more piece (a $2.50 liberty head gold PCGS MS62), which I declined on. Not long after, I overheard the same dealer speaking with another dealer who was inquiring about my material. I heard him reply something along the lines of "I've already picked it over". Made me feel good that I hadn't underpriced anything too badly!
I managed to sell a few higher value pieces (both coins and banknotes), in addition to quite a bit of gold, mostly fractional pieces. Certified Canadian coins didn't do nearly as well as I thought they would. What tended to sell at my table was what wasn't available anywhere else, largely that was pre-1933 US gold $2.50, $5 and some $10 pieces. I sold a good number of key date Canadian coins in the $50-200 price range, most of them to other dealers throughout the show. Sold quite a few modern 1/2 oz and 1/4 oz gold coins (both maples and commemoratives priced very reasonably).
I sold enough to pay for my table fees and then some. Gave out probably 100 business cards in total, so there will be a few potential sales and buy leads down the road as well.
It's enjoyable for me just to chat coins and tell stories about money, especially to people who are new to the hobby. The event was run very well, the Edmonton Numismatic Society does a great job and had a lot of volunteers from the club there helping out for anything. Including the time I caught my dealer badge on the back of one of my lamps, causing the fixture to fall and the light filament to break. Within minutes I had a brand new bulb installed and ready to go :)
All in all, it was a neat experience and I'll definitely be doing the show every time I can from this point onward.
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Pillar of the Community
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Forgot to mention, I did meet Zonad there too :) Maybe he'll chime in with a report of his own to tell us how things were elsewhere on the floor other than my corner I spent 95% of my time in!
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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A general question about coin shows:
is it allowed (usually here in Cnadian coin shows) for those people who tour the show to bring in coins with the intention of selling them?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Absolutely. At the show in Edmonton there is a booth set up and run by volunteers (non-dealers) from the coin club (Edmonton Numismatic Society) who give fairly accurate appraisals on all sorts of coins, banknotes, etc. They'll then also sometimes point a prospective seller in the direction of a particular dealer or dealers who deal in that type of material.
I had a woman contact me prior to the show about selling a particular coin, I had quoted her a buy price on it of $640 through email. She took it to the appraisal booth at the show and was given an approximate dealer buy price of $600 to $700. She then asked them where she could find me, and proceeded to sell me the coin for the price I had quoted her earlier.
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Pillar of the Community
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^^^ nice I think I was the guy standing there when you broke your lamp. I was the one that paid you for a coin in UNC $5 bills. At least I think this was you?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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lol, yes that was awkward me :)
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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cool, yeah I liked your display.....had some of the nicer gold coins around than the others. IMO
You going to go to the next show?
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Thank you :) Absolutely, I'll be at the next one in November. With a lot of new material (mostly Canadian) as well. Nearly 100 coins I didn't have time to submit to ICCS before the show. As I mentioned, I wish I had some more time to check out the other dealers' displays and material. I was relying on second-hand info most of the show to see what else was out there. Had one gentleman dealer tell me there were lots of other nice 1923 $1 notes around. He was insinuating that my uncirculated note (a rarer seal/type, priced at $1,650) probably wouldn't sell. A few hours later I made a deal for that piece plus a nice AU+ 1937 $2 note at a very fair price for both parties. One thing I heard from a few buyers was that there was a distinct lack of US material of all types. I sold a good chunk of my US coins, especially the pre-1933 gold. Did you notice anything else in particular that was lacking (or abundant)? |
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Lots of fun at this show! I found some very nice Newfie 5-cent coins at 13 for $10, all either old (KEVII, KGV) or XF+... and many, many, many world coins I had been looking for. Most happily, I found the Austrian coins that I could actually afford and am coming closer to completing my goal: a full date-set of Austrian schillings (a fun set, only one expensive [double-digit price] date) and coronas (more difficult, but very fun to track down). I completely forgot to buy any Canadian coins... oops! I forgot to look for other CCF members, but I probably passed a couple of you by. Lots of young people at this show, it was nice to not be unique... good to see even people at my awkward age digging through the junk bins for nice coins.
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