Laura Sperber

Hot Topics by Laura Sperber - Legend Numismatics FINALLY-A DEFINITION OF COIN DOCTORING HAS BEEN VOTED IN! The definition of coin doctoring FINALLY has been accepted...

By Laura Sperber – Legend Numismatics .....   FUN WAS MYSTERIOUS First we must commend the FUN people for running a great show. Having it in Tampa...

By Laura Sperber – Legend Numismatics .....   SORT OF TYPICAL FOR A MID WINTER SHOW While the ANA works hard to put on a good show,...

VACATION ANYONE-NOT! What a shocker it was when we blew into the summer FUN Show in Orlando late Thursday and all of our peers said...

By Laura Sperber – Legend Numismatics ......   HOW TO MAKE A GOOD MARKET LOOK BAD Have a miserable Long Beach Show and Auction and then repeat...

By Laura Sperber – Legend Numismatics ......   THE UNEXPECTED Yet again, another PCGS Invitational has turned out to be a better show for us then one...

By Laura Sperber - Legend Numismatics THE PHILADELPHIA SHOW MANAGEMENT-MAJOR ADJUSTMENT NEEDED We adore Mary Counts, David Chrensaw and their staffs tremendous efforts in putting...

by Laura Sperber - Legend Numismatics ......... Even though collector traffic was a bit light, we did manage to have a blockbuster show! Its close...

HOT TOPICS By Laura Sperber – Legend Numismatics LAST WEEKS HOT TOPICS I can say it definitely was well read. Unfortunately, it was not so well...

By Laura Sperber - Rare Coin Market Report THE POTENTIAL OF RARE COINS Our expectations of 2011 were for it to be good....

We'd be lying to you if we said the market is on fire. There has been a flood of unnecessary shows and auctions since...

ANY GIVEN SHOW We've all heard the term "any given Sunday" referring to the fact any NFL team can win on any Sunday (not just...

The Legend Numismatic Market Report .....   Any locale where it takes a change of planes to get to will not draw the major dealers. You...

By Laura Sperber – Legend Numismatics ......   THIS REPORT IS BEING WRITTEN BASED UPON THE EXPERIENCES AND OBSERVATIONS OF LEGEND NUMISMATICS. LEGEND DEALS IN TOP...

THE PCGS INVITATIONAL-ONE OF THE VERY BEST SHOWS This show can blow away several majors in many ways. We really can't stress enough how these...

By Laura Sperber – Legend Numismatics ……. We've all heard that phrase. What does it have to do with Long Beach? The show had decent attendence (even with...

By Laura Sperber – Legend Numismatics ......   AN EXCELLENT STATE SHOW We attended the Summer FUN Show specifically to meet with a customer. We did not...

By Laura Sperber - Legend Numismatics Market Report NEW ORLEANS IS A GREAT PLACE TO VISIT ....... But a LOUSY place to hold a coin show!...

By Laura Sperber – Legend Numismatics ……. LEGEND BREAKS UP THE MULTI MILLION DOLLAR HALL/SIMPSON $10 LIBERTY SET No, Bob Simpson is NOT dumping or selling...

By Laura Sperber - Legend Numismatics .......   REALLY? For years now coin doctoring and gradeflation have been two of if not the biggest problems with the...

We'd be lying if we said we had a great week. Its annoying to have a really good FUN Show only to come home...

This show is really Legends "escape show" more so then any other including our beloved Las Vegas Shows (lately they have personally cost us...

By Laura Sperber, - Legend Numismatics Market Report - Re-posted with Permission on CoinWeek Last week a copy reputed to be the finest of Superman...

By Laura Sperber - Legend Numismatics First, we'd like to apologize for the tweet we sent out when we got the show about the...

First, I want to clearly state: I fully support the Board of Directors of the PNG in its fight. Since the meeting I had attended last year, they have tried to diligently work on the subject of coin doctoring. Granted, nothing has happened from their efforts, but I did not know it was the MEMBERSHIP that was blocking action.

First, we'd like to commend Stack's and Sotheby's on the wonderful job they did producing the sale. Everything from the catalog to the auctioneer...

By Laura Sperber – Legend Numismatics Hot Topics THE OPINIONS AND COMMENTS IN THIS ARTICLE ARE THOSE OF THE WRITER ALONE  AND DO NOT REPRESENT THE VIEWS...

LAS VEGAS Typical for the Las Vegas PCGS Invitational for us, we did really well on the bourse floor-and crapped out on 8's on the...

THE SHOW FROM HELL! No, PCGS was not the problem. First, we had some biz to do in the Dallas area and flew in Tuesday...

By Laura Sperber - Legend Numismatics A TRIBUTE Recently the dealer community lost two world class dealers-David Akers and Chuck Walanka. David Akers was our hero and...