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Bedrock of the Community
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Yeah, those last few holes get pricey. At least you didn't go home empty handed - I have only done that once. But if nothing really catches my eye, there's a smaller show much closer in February.
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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500 would not touch any of the~six hole fillers my 7070 still needs.  Your standards are way higher than mine.   Not a single hole cost me more than $500.  Quote:
I came home with a used Dansco for $35 and a shiny Mexican peso for $27. Very nice! 
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The Houston Money Show was quite impressive! But I made an unfortunate discovery right after entering the show - the phone charger in my vehicle doesn't work. I had listened to WWOZ.org using my phone for most of the 3 hour drive with it plugged into the non-functional charger. There were many things I wanted to photograph but there's always next year. I made it all the way through but skipped over the dealers who had mainly bullion or only slabbed US coins. No 7070 hole fillers for me - this time. I focused mainly on international coins obtained one on my want list - a Mexical Caballito peso. Of the three raw ones I saw, this was the only uncleaned one. The slabbed ones had exorbitant prices so I stepped back. I did use up my entire allowance (plus some), purchasing a wide variety of coins. Several early Canadian tokens, PEI and New Brunswick also. One dealer who had a massive case of slabbed gold also had some miscellaneous "stuff" at his table. One thing was a box of loose German notgeld coins (and many with that eagle holding a funny cross) for $1 each. Picked through the box and procured 50 of them. Spent $100 with another dealer on 20 coins - he specialized in bullion but had a 2X2 box with a bunch of nice coins. He just wanted to get rid of them so I helped out. Several UK Victorian 3 pence, 6 pence, and a florin, plus a George V half crown, a Pan-American Exposition Official Medal 1901 HK##8239;289, Palestine 50 Mils 1927, and more. I'll be posting pics later. Mexico 1 Peso 1910  Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Pillar of the Community
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Since I didn't spend anything at the NYINC, at the next coin show (Long Beach) I hope to buy a few circulated Morgan dollars with circulation cameo and some international coins for my birthyear set. I plan to bring more than $500.  |
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United States
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Congrats! I sometime want a lot of items and other times just 1. You can't go wrong either way.
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01/18/2025 7:59 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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hfjacinto, I saw one solitary Byzantine gold coin. The price far exceeded my budget so I didn't even note what it was. If only I could have taken a picture... There was another coin that I wanted to photograph. One table was almost exclusively love tokens and counterstamped 19th century coins. It was a Seated Liberty quarter that had been carved so that Liberty was sitting on a chamber pot. Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Bedrock of the Community
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These are getting put on the back burner for a while.  Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Fantastic!  |
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I have been trying to get that pan-pac medal in silver for some time but it gets quite pricey in higher MS grades. Lovely design.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I am a 'vacuum cleaner' always looking for the best value for money across the whole of numismatics covering 2,600 years from when coins were first invented.
To be able to do this, decades of experience as a serious collector are needed, supported by an extensive numismatic library of over 100 books and scholarly numismatic references, covering the whole of numismatics.
My strategy at coin shows is to first limit myself to a budget (say, $500), and then survey the whole of the coin show, looking for best value for money. I then re visit those dealers where those bargains have been found, and negotiate within the $500 limit
Purchases could be anything from ancients medieval, milled or modern, from any coin issuing authority in the whole history of coinage.
Good value for money purchases are always easier to find, when one searches across the whole of numismatics.
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Bedrock of the Community
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This one is brass but very nice for the price. US Pan-American Exposition 1901 Official Medal  Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Bedrock of the Community
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Thank you, NumisEd.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That caballito is gorgeous! Very high on my want list,
but seldom available from the sources I frequent.
jbuck: Four of those 7070 holes are in the gold page.
At current spot, it looks like they are gonna be empty for awhile.
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This one is brass but very nice for the price. US Pan-American Exposition 1901 Official Medal Excellent!
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