Super Bowl Sunday: Attended a Coin Show
Posted on February 5, 2007
Filed Under Coins |
When I was much younger, I liked collecting coins. When I visited my grandmother’s house in Queens, I enjoyed looking through her large collection of pennies stored in a coffee bean grinder. She had a set of Whitman coin folders and I placed all her old pennies in the display slots.
Unfortunately, the oldest of the folders, containing one cent pieces from 1909 to 1940, disappeared somewhere between my moves from East Windsor to Delaware to Plainsboro to Lawrenceville to Paterson to Maplewood to Jersey City to Lawrenceville (again) and Plainsboro (again).
In the past several years, I’ve been getting the yearly Proof Sets from the U.S. Mint, more recently I’ve added the Silver Proof Sets, and I’m slowly filling in the prior years. Over the past few months, I’ve begun going through the coins I receive in change with the intent of finding rare items. I’m filling in new Whitman folders, but haven’t come across anything too rare yet.
Today I dragged Amy to my first coin show, in northern New Jersey. I had a basic idea of what to expect, after following some online forums where collectors hang out. It was a busy event with rooms full of dealers and customers. Most of the coins were in small holders, some professionally rated for quality.
For my part, I get more enjoyment from looking through circulating coins and discovering something interesting rather than just buying something directly from a dealer. The only problem with this is that all the interesting coins have all ready been removed from circulation by collectors.
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