Last week’s Fayetteville Show is now in the books and to say it was a mixed bag would be an understatement. The show was added to Lite’s calendar after the April Midland’s Columbia show was cancelled due to promoter/ venue error with the hope of attending a new event that could be added to the show schedule long term.
Unfortunately, the show was too small for Lite. I had anticipated this might be the case as I focused the show inventory on coins under $500, but the Lite inventory still too much for this marketplace with a whole lotta staring going on. One known dealer that attends this show because it is close to his home saw me and immediately said ” I’m surprised to see you here’. I guess I then knew I was in trouble from the get-go but I was determined to make the best of the situation. I accomplished this by making a few dealer sales, as the Lite inventory does well with local dealers trying to fill client want lists.
More importantly, in the past 2 years I’ve cultivated good dealer relations on the bourse with a strong reputation for fair dealings. I discussed with fellow dealers the topic of which smaller shows in North Carolina the Lite brand would do well at as I’m trying to expand Lite’s local presence while at the same time reducing travel. The result of these conversations is that LIte will be in attendance for the Myrtle Beach December Show and also the Wilmington Azalea Festival Coin Show held in April. The Azalea Show has been touted as “the biggest little coin show in the Carolinas” and I’m thrilled to be in attendance. I should mention that to make the Azalea show happen, 2 dealers sent reference emails to the show promoter on my behalf. I immediately followed up this past Monday and secured the only available table. If all goes as planned the Fayetteville show will not have been for naught and served its purpose.
Ok, lets now turn the attention to new consignments recently received in by Lite. Let’s 1st focus on a recent Classic Commemoratives arrivals. The consignment consists of 32 coins, all PCGS with 10 CAC stickered. Grades range from MS65 to MS67. I’ve already listed for sale 6 of the coins including a 1926-S Oregon PCGS MS65 that’s already spoken for. Here are 3 more commemoratives to be posted today
50C Wisconsin 1936 PCGS MS65 CAC $275
50C 1946 Iowa PCGS MS65 OGH $150
50C 1936-D Texas PCGS MS66 CAC $390
I will list the balance of the classic commemoratives in the next week. After that I’ll continue with plenty of new arrivals across most of the categories handled by Lite. My next blog highlighting the new adds will be approximately 2 weeks. I’ll end as always, with wishing all the blogamaniacs collecting success !