Coin Sites On Your Phone

Usually, I just google "Upcoming Coin Shows In _____", the blank being where you live. For coin shops, I use my phones map, which can be somewhat unreliable when I drive over to the place and find out the shop was moved or closed down completely. So, maps aren't the best source, but usually it works.

http://www.coinzip.com/

I use this site for my local coin shows. Happy hunting!

-CH27

Going to a coin show?
Coin lists are nice, but you have to consider the coin your looking at. The grade by a vendor is usually two grades higher than a buyer grades it. Even the coin can have a scratch that will reduce the coin into a cull coin lowering the price as much as 90%. So seeing the date and the supposed grade from the vendor could cost you big time. So know what your buying by seeing the coin up close to see what is really going on with it. You might be buying a gold plated cowpie if you are not careful.

So know what to look for on coins. The problems that can happen. If the coins were cleaned, altered, buffed or polished. The more you learn, the better the purchase. The wrong question to ask the vendor is: "what do you think it will grade." That will drive up the price or is telling the vendor you don't know what your doing. Using the PCGS photo grade will only help for coin wear.
https://www.PCGS.com/photograde
But if the coin had a contact mark/s. That will lower the grade. A cleaned coin if sent into PCGS comes back as 'Original' no grade for it. So figure a lot less for that coin. Pink colored cents are cleaned harshly with an acid that removes the orginal surface. So Publications will only help you know how to use them, for the coin you are looking at. Any damage on a coin, pass. Altered coins, pass. There will be other coins that maybe what you want from another vender. Find a vendor that is honest. Check deal stock 2X2s. Then look at the BU coins, and pass up coin with contact marks. If it is a regular show, you will know who to deal with and who to pass by. Most dealers at a show are not variety collectors, but will look for the obvious doubled dies. But the first time around at a small show, look for the roll stock first. Tubes of coins can have nice coins in them. (Some vendor think that leaving them in the paper can alter the BU looks and put them in tubes. Sometimes vendors will buy tubed coins from other collectors that have been searched. So the original OBW tight rolls are what you want to buy. Depending on the year, they can be very expensive.

If I'm after a $500+ coin, Heritage sold and Great Collections sold, filtered to most recent.

PCGS and NGC price guides are way too high.IMHO.
John1

Never use phone for coin info. Only due to my age, not sure how to do that anyway. I go to coin shows with a piece of paper with a coin list on it.