M.O.O.N. report

Just returned from the annual Minnesota Organization Of Numismatists show in
Minneapolis. Business was very steady throughout the 3 days with the aisles
filled with buyers and even occasional periods where people actually had to
wait to check out items on some tables. I filled quite a few needs purchasing
a good number of late date proof sets in preparation for the Xmas season and
also replenishing my BU fractional gold eagle date inventory which had
developed some holes over the summer and early fall. Bought a couple of "neat"
Panda items, but sold them before I left the show. Really wanted to see if I
could get a couple of Bidiots to fight over a quarter oz gold and quarter oz
platinum 1990 set I bought in a really cool wooden carved box. Sometimes items
like that go wild on Ebay, but we'll never know...;-)

Found 11 gold eagle BU year sets and restocked the Morgan dollars I needed at
one table. Talked to quite a few Lincoln and Indian collectors and sold a few
nice coins, including a 1910 blazer and an 1890 full red Indian and nice RB
1883. There seemed to a lot of people really interested in buying and selling.
The show was very active at all times with no Sunday let up. While 7 dealers
left Saturday night for the Madison, WI Sunday show (WHY, WHY, WHY do show
promoters insist on ignoring conflicts and schedule good shows on the same
day?) they were filled on Sunday by others. In my case, the table next to me
was manned on Sunday by a Professional Currency Grader offering free opinions
and instructions about paper money.

I was happy to have my best day on Sunday as were a couple of other dealers I
talked to. It was very difficult to decide to give my Madison table, but I had
reserved tables at both shows and had to make a decision. I understand that
the Madison show was very active, also.

Got a last minute offer from a dealer/friend to share a table at the Des Moines
show this coming weekend. The shuffling of dates here in early November had
left us without a table there, but John Jackson of Sioux City's J & J Coins
graciously offered to give up one of his tables so that I & another dealer
could go.

Looking forward to another excellent show there.

dondi3
DONDI enterprises. BUY, SELL, TRADE. RARE COINS & PRECIOUS METALS
Member COINNET, CSNS, ANA, INA, MOON, ILNA.

On 03 Nov 2003 15:27:52 GMT, (DONDI3) wrote:

Got a last minute offer from a dealer/friend to share a table at the Des Moines
show this coming weekend. The shuffling of dates here in early November had
left us without a table there, but John Jackson of Sioux City's J & J Coins
graciously offered to give up one of his tables so that I & another dealer
could go.


Sounds like John to me. He has graciously agreed to handle the bourse for
our last three SD state shows. This is deeply appreciated by us because we
simply do not have access to many in-state dealers, whereas John sees them
almost any weekend.

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The Gold Pandas are so kool looking. The pandas are always a hot item.
Ed

(DONDI3) wrote
Just returned from the annual Minnesota Organization Of Numismatists show in
Minneapolis. Business was very steady throughout the 3 days

Minneapolis is quite the Mecca. Being in the middle of nowhere, it
draws talent from a lot of geography. I was sent there ten or 12
times from 1991-1993 and was always impressed with the Twin Cities.
The Celator carries occasional reports of the local Ancients
collectors club, also.

Here in Traverse City, Michighan, I read my paper money to see where
it comes from and we get very little from Minneapolis. I thought more
people would come down here to pick oranges in December, but I guess
not.

(DONDI3) wrote in news:20031103102752.22081.00001634@mb-
m17.aol.com:

Bought a couple of "neat"
Panda items, but sold them before I left the show.

How neat were they Don?

In article 05, DFloyd
writes:

Bought a couple of "neat"
Panda items, but sold them before I left the show.

How neat were they Don?

The nicest was a platinum and gold 1990 set. One quarter oz platinum proof and
a quarter oz gold BU...in a very nice hand carved hinged wooden box.. COA said
the mintage was limited to 300 sets. The box was pretty enough to set on your
coffee table as a decoration.

Really wanted to ebay that one.

Bought & sold a pair of 1983 half oz gold Panda coins, 2nd year of issue for
that one.

Also sold a 5 pc 1987 gold proof set.

Nearly bought a complete set of quarter oz BU Pandas from 1982 thru 2000, but
the guy sold it to his son-in-law instead.

Must have been my weekend for pandas...;-)

Dondi3


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Dondi,
So glad to hear you had a great show. Sounds like you had fun too.
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(DONDI3) wrote in
:

Nearly bought a complete set of quarter oz BU Pandas from 1982 thru
2000, but the guy sold it to his son-in-law instead.

Must have been my weekend for pandas...;-)


Crap, too busy to make the show. (
That might have been a good thing.
By any chance do you know what he wanted for this set?

In article 01, DFloyd
writes:

Crap, too busy to make the show. (
That might have been a good thing.
By any chance do you know what he wanted for this set?

I had offered $3 over melt per coin...he sold it to his son-in-law for melt...

I had bought way too much and would have had to blow it off before going
home...I think he would have sold it to me for $5/oz over melt...but the only
coin worth a premium is the 1982 and that doesn't offset getting only melt (or
less) for the other 18 coins...plus the fact that some (most, IIRC) were not in
their original pouches, etc.

....but it would have been somebody's bargain.

He said he thought his son-in-law was going to put them up on ebay...so you
might do some searches on quarter oz Pandas and see what happens.

dondi3
DONDI enterprises. BUY, SELL, TRADE. RARE COINS & PRECIOUS METALS
Member COINNET, CSNS, ANA, INA, MOON, ILNA.

(DONDI3) wrote in
:

In article 01,
DFloyd writes:

Crap, too busy to make the show. (
That might have been a good thing.
By any chance do you know what he wanted for this set?

I had offered $3 over melt per coin...he sold it to his son-in-law for
melt...

I had bought way too much and would have had to blow it off before
going home...I think he would have sold it to me for $5/oz over
melt...but the only coin worth a premium is the 1982 and that doesn't
offset getting only melt (or less) for the other 18 coins...plus the
fact that some (most, IIRC) were not in their original pouches, etc.

...but it would have been somebody's bargain.

He said he thought his son-in-law was going to put them up on
ebay...so you might do some searches on quarter oz Pandas and see what
happens.

dondi3
DONDI enterprises. BUY, SELL, TRADE. RARE COINS & PRECIOUS METALS
Member COINNET, CSNS, ANA, INA, MOON, ILNA.


Thnaks much.