"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message
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Bruce Remick wrote:
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The Western States Token Society annual jamboree will be held March
6-7-8, 2009 at the Red Lion Hotel in Sacramento, California. A fully
illustrated listing of the benefit token auction as well as all the
show details may be found at www.exonumia.homestead.com.

For many of you, Token Jamboree could be a pre-ANA show as the ANA
World's Fair of Money will be in Portland, OR the following week.
Reasonable flights can be found between Sacramento and Portland for
those flying into the show. Limited bourse space is still available.

I wonder how long it before it will be routine for those of us in all
parts of the country to "attend" and participate in shows like this
at our computers. Maybe one day soon a collector at home in
Milwaukee will be able to browse the dealer display cases in
Sacramento and interact with any dealer in real time, asking the
dealer for a closeup of a particular item and dickering over a price.
I suspect one could do this already on a pre-arranged basis with a
dealer, both using a cell phone camera or other device.

If you have a carefully-selected cadre of reliable eBay sellers, you can
experience that online right now. Several dealers that I have come to
know and trust send me periodic emails with their monthly offerings.
Sometimes they already have pictures of their better items available on
click, other times they will custom-photograph if asked. I don't imagine
coin shows will ever cease to exist within our lifetimes, but they will
have to change bigtime to survive.

James the Futurist

Yeah, I guess if my vision ever comes to pass, there would be no real
need for dealers to travel and congregate at one show location. Some kind
of scheduled computerized conference call-type setup could be arranged where
participating "show dealers" would be electronically linked as a group. The
group could be accessible online via password connection and the dealers
could interact with each other and with "virtual attendees" at home. Think
of all the show-related hassles it would eliminate for dealers. The way
technology is progressing, the commercial hardware to support such an
arrangement will probably be commonplace by the time I finish this beer. It
may be possible already. Burp. All we will need are a few clever people
to pioneer the concept.