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The Summer FUN show 2025 was a success by most measures, with a large number of collectors and dealers in attendance. Although fairly large, it's still on the small side of the "big shows" that populate the annual coin show calendar. But, it has become a excellent show in recent years, and nearly every coin dealer we talked to said they had a great show. "Hot" is the correct way to describe the se …

Like most coin dealers, we had a few days off for th 4th of July weekend--we hope everyone had a great week, and are enjoying their Summer. Coin shows have been on a hiatus for us since the CSNS show in May, but this week is the Summer FUN show in Orlando, Florida, which will be a welcome and, as always, "fun" show. Starting with this show, we will be set up at a show (or two) nearly every month …

CENTRAL STATES COIN SHOWThe central states coin show was busy, with many dealers in attendance, and a decent number of collectors as well. It was nice to see a number of long time customers at the show, including some "old timers" in the error hobby (you know who you are!), who always have a wealth of experience and insight. There is a fairly large contingent of young collectors and young coin dea …

The error coin market is steady, and prices have been relatively flat, with some high, some low, but overall, healthy. We have been selling a lot of coins, and as a result have been working hard to get in fresh inventory. For us, there has been a run of coin shows lately, with our next show being the Central States coin show, held in the Chicago area. This is an excellent coin show, with hun …

The Baltimore coin show this month was overall a good show. A number of customers showed up, both dealers and collectors, and buying for us was decent. We picked up a nice assortment of errors that will be offered for sale in the coming days and months, as some is posted as early as this week, while other coins will be a few months, after they are sent off to be graded and returned to us.  &n …

 After digesting the FUN coin show, and reviewing sales of coins from online auction sites, dealer activity, and also sales of our own inventory, we can confidently say that the coin market is hot, and collector and dealer activity is excellent. It is not the "crazy days" of 2020-2022, when anything sold and often for a new record every time it was offered—those days seem to be behind u …

FUN Coin Show Report 2025The Fun coin show 2025, held in Orlando, Florida, was an excellent coin show. A large number of dealers and collectors were in attendance, as aways, and amongst them were many mint error collectors. CONECA (the mint error club) had a table, promoting their error coin club. If you are not a member, you can join online. Also, we saw a lot of young numismatists at the show, w …

Mint Errors: Double-Strikes A double-strike is a mint error that occurs when a planchet is fed into the striking chamber, and is struck. Normally, it would be ejected by the feeder finger from between the dies, but for "whatever" reason, fails to do so, and is struck again. Double-strikes can be "on-center", off-center, or be multiple strikes on or off-center--there is a wide array of variati …

On last Thursday we arrived bright and early for the Baltimore Whitman Expo, held week (November 14-16th, 2024.) A short flight, and a quick set up and things were off and running. Many customers stopped by as well as dealers with error coins for sale, questions, or just looking to buy an error or two. Many of our regular customers showed up on the first day, and it was fairly non-stop until the s …

Hopefully everyone has been having a wonderful October, and have made some time to pull out their error coin collections and spend some time enjoying them! There is nothing like actually getting your coins out and looking and them individually, and perhaps chatting about them with a fellow numismatist. We have been busy processing a few collections and various other coins we have purchased, m …