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Coin Show - Monthly Notes for December 2024
Mark your calendar and join us at the next show on Sunday, January 5, 2025, in the Joe Mack Wilson ballroom.
The January show will be the first of our 38th year of doing monthly coin shows.
The show's bourse will be filled with dealers and their showcases containing displays of coins, currency, bullion, exonumia, scripophily, semi-precious stones, jewelry and other interesting items.
The show welcomes guests to buy, sell, trade or just enjoy viewing the variety of numismatic and other collectibles in the dealers' displays.
Visitors can also bring coins and currency to the show for a free verbal appraisal based on the current market values.
The show is open from 9am - 4pm, however arrive early for the most opportunities.
Should circumstances impact the show, check with this web site, the recorded show message (770-772-4359), or join our mailing list to receive up-to-date information about the next show.
Make a reminder note and visit the next Greater Atlanta Coin Show on Sunday, January 5, 2025 in the Joe Mack Wilson ballroom to join the fun and view the items on the bourse.
1942 over 1 Mercury Dime Coin
1983 South Africa Kruggerand One Ounce Gold Coin
1985 Five Dollar Federal Reserve Note Obstructed Printing
The December 2024 Greater Atlanta Coin Show enjoyed many guests visiting our last show of the year amid dealers filling their showcases with coins, currency, bullion and other items.
The show occurred on a nice day under a mix of sunshine and overcast skies with temperatures in the high 50s to low 60s.
The hotel was busy the night before, perhaps with holiday parties. On Sunday, they also hosted an Amway group in other parts of their conference space.
As always, we appreciate all of our visitors whether you are coming to look, to buy, to sell or to learn. You are welcome at the show.
Of course, we must also thank our dealers, our security and the hotel's staff for their contributions to the show's success each month.
Our December show welcomed several people bringing items for valuation and to sell. Our dealers provide appraisals based on current market values and will offer to buy the numismatic items. Some people sell while others choose to keep their items for a different market.
Similar to recent shows, several visitors looked to buy gold and silver items. Dealers offer different options including both coins and bullion in the precious metals.
Some visitors brought sterling silver objects, such as trays, to sell to the dealers buying precious metals.
In December, we had a number of children interested in the hobby. We also had some adults just beginning to learn about coins and what areas they might pursue. Others commented that this was their first coin show.
The show welcomes everyone. You can be an experienced collector, someone just beginning the learning process, or someone curious about a coin show. Come visit and talk with the dealers. They will assist.
The December show was a busy place to be. Both the dealers and the guests bought and sold items throughout the day.
For a quick view, let's look at a small sample from the show.

Our first specimen comes from the Mercury Dime production of 1942, however this coin is an overstrike of 1942 over 1.
PCGS graded this coin as VF25 considering its overall wear.
Of interest, PCGS CoinFacts states the lower grades are 'common' while the Mint State grades are 'rare':
"The 1942 over 1 Dime is one of the most popular and recognizable of all U.S. coin varieties, and for decades, dealers and collectors have touted it as a great, valuable variety. The truth is that it is not rare at all, not even scarce, and can be called common based on the high number of pieces in the PCGS Population Report. However, this statement only holds true for circulated examples because, in Mint State, the 1942/1 Dime is one of the rarest of all the Mint State Mercury Head Dimes."
They estimate 3500 total specimens have survived the years with 200 of those being Mint State 60 or better.
This coin would be an interesting addition to a collection with maybe a loupe nearby in order to see the overstrike.
The obverse of the coin features the profile of Paul Kruger, the first and only president of South Africa.
The reverse depicts a Springbok antelope, a symbol synonymous with South Africa.
The word “Krugerrand” comes from President Kruger’s last name and is combined with “rand”, the currency of South Africa.
Our next sample is the very popular South African Gold Krugerrand, which is one of the most recognizable Gold bullion coins in the world.
The Krugerrand began production in 1967and was the world’s first modern bullion coin.
The popularity of the Krugerrand influenced other countries, for example, the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, to enter the Gold bullion coin market.
The Krugerrand remains a beautiful addition to a collection, whether coins or bullion or both.

PMG (Paper Money Guaranty) describes the Obstructed Printing Error:
"It is important to remember that creating a banknote generally involves several stages of printing. Seals and serial numbers will often be added near the end with their own printing, before a sheet of notes is cut into individual pieces of currency.
"With banknotes moving through so many different printing stages, it is no surprise that occasionally a stray piece of material (usually a piece of paper or tape) will come between the printing plate and uncut sheets of notes. The result is a portion of a banknote with blank area, also known as an Obstructed Printing Error.
"Obstructed Printing Errors are popular with collectors, with note values increasing dramatically when the item causing the obstruction is retained with (or, in other words, still “stuck on”) the error note."
Our last example for December shows how the currency printing process is not without error.
This Five Dollar Federal Reserve Note has a couple of different errors and amazingly the obstructions were captured and placed with the note.
This note's errors along with its two separate error papers help explain how the notes go through different printing phases.