Coin show this weekend in Las Vegas.... new show.

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Coin show this weekend in Las Vegas.... new show.

Apr 27-29 Las Vegas
New Show - Las Vegas Coin Expo. Sands Convention Center, Sands & Las Vegas Blvd. Hrs: Fri. 11AM-6PM, Sat. 10AM-6PM, Sun. 10AM-3PM. Barry Furman, 724 Vortex Ave., Henderson, NV 89002. PH: 702-558-0637, Cell: 702-283-0005. Email: furkol@cox.net TA: 60. Tables available. FR

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Here is the deal on this new show at the Sand Expo in Las Vegas 27-29, 2007..... being a new show, the number of dealers and the attendance was on the low side. But, for guys like us that's great - less competition and the dealers are happy just to have someone to talk to, and look through their stock.

Getting there the first day was a bit of a challenge because the parking around the Sands Expo is long gone with all the continual building by the Venetian Hotel. So, after several drive byes and drive a rounds, I determined I had to park in the Venetian Hotel parking ramp and then trek a long way through the Venetian Hotel and follow the signs to the Sands Expo. I was ready to "sit down" by the time I arrived at the show's doors. Getting there on Sunday the next day was easier because I knew the route.

One dealer let me cherrypick through his large tub of dateless Buffalo Nickels at 4 for a dollar.... I ended up buying 93 of them and could have bought more but I didn't have the time. All those that I purchased either had a readable date, mintmark or both. I remember there was one 1924-D Buffalo in the group.

The big find was an older dealer (80 something) who was selling his personal error collection, and this was the first show that he brought it to. It wasn't a specatular collection, but I was able to buy all the better ones. Here is a list of coins I purchased. I may post a few images later because errors are not my area of study, and I may need some input. I paid mostly $2 each, and for a few others I paid a little more.

1955-S 1c MS-63 Rev. Die Break
1982 1c MS63 55% Off-center
1961-D 1c AU-58 Struck-thur Attached Peeling Lamination
1959 1c MS62 Clipped Planchet 7:00
1949 1c MS63 Die Crack Thru Skull
1952-D 1c AU-55 Die Gouge left of MM
1971 1c AU-53 - Sturck on Foreign Planchet
1959 1c AU-53 - Clipped Planchet 2:00
1953 1c EF-45 - Rev Die Chip left Wheat
1970-S 1c MS-66 - Major Cud "Atheist Cent"
1990 1c MS-63 - No Copper Coating
1971-S 1c AU-55 - Looks other then copper?
Conterfeit Buffalo Nickel
Two-Reverse Buffalo Nickel - Altered coin two-reverses put together
1953 1c AU-50 - Rev Die Chip left Wheat
1964-D 1c MS-62 Clipped Planchet 5:00
1970-S 1c Large-date MS-63 - Clipped at 10:00
Wheat cent EF-40 33% Off-center Partial date "19"
1952 VF-30 Die cracks and break thru skull an motto
From 1970-S 1c Bag Off-center 90% no date
From 1976 1c roll - Blank Planchet
1948 1c VF-30 Clipped planchet 8:00
From 1971-S 1c Bag Off-center 85% no date
1968 1c AU-58 Clipped planchet 8:00
1971 1c AU-58 Double Clipped 8:00 & 10:00
1920 1c EF-40 Clipped Planchet 4:00
1928 1c VF-30 - All of Reverse Struck Thru Grease?
From 1970 1c bag Off-center 85% no date
1945-S 1c major Lamination between date & abe.
1955 1c Obv and Rev Struck thru Grease?
1977 1c Obv. Cud above head, from up to "God" and taking "T" in TRUST
1975 1c MS-60 Clipped Planchet 10:00
1968-D 1c MS-62 Clipped Planchet 2:00
1972-S 1c MS-63 Clipped Planchet 9:00
1952 1c EF-45 Die crack through head to rim
From 1972-S bag Blank Planchet
1972-S 1c MS-63 Clipped Planchet 6:00

I was also able to pick-off two very rare Buffalo Nickel die varieties. Both in lower grade... but both are very hard to find in any grade.

1915 5c DDO-1 FS-14.9 VG-8.... nice for the grade.
1915-D/D 5c RPM FS-15 AG-2 has old acid treatment on most of the Obv.

It was 10-years ago that I found a similar 1915 DDO-1

That was 132 coins...plus 2 PCGS SAC$1 and another 11 other raw Buffalos (145 coins total, plus a 2008 Redbook). Not a bad haul for the weekend.

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I forgot an honorable mention of 6 other coins I purchased from the older gentleman dealer. All 6 were Jefferson Nickels.

Two of them were counterfeit. In the Redbook I have always read under the Wartime Silver Alloy nickels (1942-1945) that "1944 nickels without mintmarks are counterfeit". That is exactly what these Jefferson Nickels are - 1944 counterfeits with missing large mintmarks above the Monticello Dome. Very cool.

The other 4-coins all came from the same 1960-D dies. On the obverse there is extra metal above some of the letters on LIBERTY, but the really neat thing about these coins is they all have the same dot on Jefferson's shoulder. My hunch is, this is the result of a Rockwell Hardness test on the obverse die and maybe they didn't plan on using the die - but then inadvertently used it.

We discussed the Rockwell hardness test in a pervious post. I will try and post an image of this Jefferson Nickel Dot die variety to further discussion of the Rockwell Hardness test and dots seen occasionally on coins.

http://www.coppercoins.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1244&highlight=

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