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Above: outside the convention center where the January 2026 FUN show was held. 

The FUN show, held in Orlando, Fl January 8th-11th, 2026 was a resounding success—the perhaps busiest FUN show we can recall in the last 20 years! Lines of retail buyers were outside the show on day one, with wait times to get in of over an hour. Dealers showed up as well, with 740 tables of mostly coins and paper money, making it (we heard) the largest FUN show ever. Walking down the aisles of the show was a constant stop and go, as they were crowded for much of the show. Even on Saturday, a day when dealers tend to leave early, the show was quite busy and very active. 

Above: it was very busy, with thousands of collectors and dealers in attendance. 

There were so many tables that we really never got a chance to check out all the other dealer’s inventory, but simply made the best of it, doing a quick pass by to see if there were any errors we could purchase, or relying on either their coming to us with errors they wanted to sell. It was a busy show, and almost constantly filled with either discussions about errors with collectors and dealers or making a purchase or sell. Although we sold a lot of errors at the show, our inventory was unfortunately depleted from heavy sells over the last months, and so total volume was less than the prior year. However, coins from $25 to thousands of dollars sold at the show and we were happy with the total by the end of the show. Other dealers needed material as well, with one dealer, towards the end of the show, even coming by and after quickly reviewing our “budget display case of $100 and under errors said “I’ll buy the case!” 

Above: we had hundreds of major mint errors for sale at our booth. 

Buying was challenging simply because there were not a lot (compared to some other shows) of fresh error coins for sale, but we picked up a nice double row box or two of mint errors, and will be offering them over the coming weeks and months. 

The bullion market was the talk of the show, with silver hitting over $80 an ounce and gold $4,500. How much this spills over into the “regular coin market” is perhaps unknowable, but it is our opinion that it does to a certain extent. Collectors frequently own at least bullion, and with these high prices, many doubtless have “cashed in” and made considerable profits—what better way to spend those funds than to buy coins for their collections, and perhaps add a rarity or a handful of scarcer pieces to their collections. 

The FUN show often “sets the stage” for the rest of the year, being the first major coin show of every new year, and based on the activity, it’s going to be a busy year in the coin business.