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This is starting to feel like the new normal, as coin shows are resuming with more regularity. We professed from Day 1 of the pandemic that this too would pass. We did not believe for a minute that COVID was going to redefine how we lived our lives, at least not on a permanent basis. […]
The Battlefield Coin Show in Gettysburg, PA is firmly establishing itself as a solid regional show. The combination of the historical lure of The Gettysburg battlefield combined with pent-up demand from COVID restrictions resulted in an active and productive show last weekend. This show seems to get progressively bigger and better with age. Thursday, dealer […]
This is beginning to sound like a broken record, but the facts are the facts. No embellishment is needed to surmise the current market condition. The numismatic market is starved for material, as coin shortages continue. Will the resumption of several upcoming shows resolve this? We can only speak from experience, and the few shows […]
These are unbelievable times, the kind that novels are written about and movies are made of. It is counterintuitive to believe that any business could thrive in the midst of a global pandemic, and even crazier to think that hobbyists would be spending unprecedented amounts of money when the economy is on the ropes. Would […]
I just returned from a relaxing week of scuba diving in Roatan, Honduras. Ordinarily, I don’t discuss my vacations on a coin-related blog. But, we are not in ordinary times and there is a point to this diversion. One of my pre-trip requirements was a 72 hour negative COVID test. I couldn’t help but to […]
I retell this story often because of its poignancy. For those of you that have heard it, forgive my repetition. It goes like this. A senior collector urges his friend, a non-collector to attend a coin show with him. His friend is intrigued by the idea, and agrees. After a day of visiting dealers and […]
All of the previous weeks’ blogs where we hypothesized that numismatic activity was somehow tied to bullion, lost validity this week. Metals were for the most part vacillating between flat to bearish for the better part of the week, with some sell-offs and weakening premiums both evident. Numismatic coins however defied that trend. The phones […]
Not for a second did we believe that the Reddit/Robinhood renegade young traders were going to commandeer the silver market like they successfully had done with a bankrupt game retailer. That nonetheless didn’t stopped the public from jumping on the silver bandwagon two weeks ago, when the metals markets opened feverishly up on Monday morning. […]
After a Fall coin draught that followed us into the new year, it appears that the dam has finally opened. The greatest challenge of the coin market has continued to be buying coins. It didn’t take us long to realize that we had to modify our business model. Coin shows, which traditionally accounted for over […]
On January 2nd when visiting a local supermarket, a puzzling pattern manifested. The market was completely out of lite yogurt, diet fruit juice, Enlightened ice cream products and their vegetable isle was decimated. It is not unusual for our market to be out of one or more of these products, but to be out of […]
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