My First Coin Show

What I Planned for and What I Did at My First Coin Show

I started collecting Wheat pennies and Lincoln pennies just for a way to keep busy and keep my interests in collecting alive. Since I have a home computer I decided to start looking for information on coins on the Web. I did a search on US Coins using Google and this brought up 19,000,000 hits so I read quite a few of articles and this made me more interested in collecting US coins. I also did a search on Coin Shows and looked at several sites and found out that there was one coin show coming to a town near me in a couple of months. 

By the time the coin show was a month away I had several different coin collecting projects going on. I was collecting Mercury dimes, which I think are the most beautiful coins the US Mint made, Roosevelt dimes, Wheat/Lincoln pennies and Jefferson nickels. 

So I decided to get ready for my first coin show. I created an Excel spreadsheet to list out the coins I needed to complete my sets. I also looked at the prices of these coins so I would have pretty good idea how much money I was going to have to spend to complete these sets. I realized pretty quickly that the Mercury dime collection would probably take more than one coin show to finish so I decided on taking about a hundred dollars with me. 

The day finally arrived and I set out to the hotel where the coin show was going to be held. I printed out a map to get there just in case I got lost. When I got to the hotel I noticed there were signs pointing to the conference room where the show was being held. I walked to the entrance of the Coin show where I noticed there were several tables set up with magazines, pamphlets, and other information about coins, coin clubs, and meetings and other shows that were coming in the next few months.