Long Beach Coin Show - Finally Visited After 10 Years - 9/9/2017 Saturday

I finally visited Long Beach, California coin show yesterday, 9/9/2017. I couldn't make it during the week when ALL the vendors are present, but had to settle for Saturday. It seemed like about 25% of the vendors were gone.

The show was from 10am to 3pm, but due to my work, I arrived at about noon. It was just a beautiful day at Long Beach. Parking is $15 right below to expo, but I used street parking $6 per 4 hours, 5 minutes walking distance near the mall right across from the expo.






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Registration took another 5 minutes with $8 entrance fee and I walked in. With my heart pounding, I noticed tables near the front were mostly expensive slabbed "investment"(stated by the seller) and gold coins. The type coins were toward the middle & back of the expo.

I purchased 11 coins from 5 different vendors, of which, I highly recommend one vendor from Spokane, WA.

Can I state his business name? Well, here is it... B.U.S.T. Coinage. The gentleman had the most quantity of type coins in 2X2s, nicely organized. His prices were reasonable too. Knowledgeable and soft spoken.

I also met few local vendors from Southern California which I plan to visit at a later time.

There was one vendor where I purchased 4 coins, only because the temporary sales helper, Richard, was very knowledgeable and helpful picking out coins and describing them, both good & bad. He kept saying "my extremely biased opinion is.....", which cracked me up. I was surprised to find out that he is a physicist. I've never met a physicist with sense of humor.(maybe I'm thinking about MY physics teacher, a long time ago) But, FYI, I wasn't too crazy about the owner & his prices.

Well, I am going to post some pictures of the coins that I purchased in my 7070 album thread below... (an hour later)

http://goccf.com/t/295896&whichpage=1


Thanks for reading...