Legend Market Report – Pre Las Vegas Show
By Laura Sperber – Legend Numismatics ......
A DECEMBER TO REMEMBER
We were surprised at how active this past week was. It wasn't a mad house...
Legend Market Report – Post Thanksgiving Coin Market
By Laura Sperber – Legend Numismatics ......
GIVING THANKS
For sure, this year was slightly better than this time last year. The plunge had been quick...
Legend Numismatics Hot Topics – Lehigh Valley Historical Society
By Laura Sperber - Legend Numismatics .......
Journal entries from the founder of Legend Numismatics, Laura Sperber, help you stay current with the real happenings...
Legend Numismatics Hot Topics – Buyer Beware
By Laura Sperber - Legend Numismatics .......
AUCTION BUYING
I want to make it clear - this is not a self serving Hot Topics. I am...
Legend Market Report – The Long Beach Show
By Laura Sperber – Legend Numismatics ......
ANA NOT DIGESTED
We all figured having a Long Beach Show only three weeks after the ANA Show in...
Legend Numismatics: Pre Long Beach Expo Market Report
By Laura Sperber - Legend Numismatics .......
ON/OFF
Last week in the office was very quiet. It's like the light switch was flipped off. Only a...
Legend Numismatics Hot Topics – True Quality, a Good Dealer & Freshness DO Make...
By Laura Sperber - Legend Numismatics .......
If you think this Hot Topics sounds like a broken record... yes, it does. I can never say...
Legend Numismatics Market Report – The ANA Coin Show
By Laura Sperber – Legend Numismatics ......
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
We’ll be blunt: Anaheim for sure was a VERY poor choice to hold a major coin show. California’s...
Legend Numismatics Rare Coin Market Report – 4TH OF JULY
By Laura Sperber – Legend Numismatics ......
We’re sitting here in Las Vegas at the end of the PCGS Invitational Show writing this rare coin market report....
Legend Numismatics Hot Topics – A Bad Culture
By Laura Sperber - Legend Numismatics .......
REALLY?
For years now coin doctoring and gradeflation have been two of if not the biggest problems with the...
Legend Numismatics – Long Beach and Goldberg Coin Market Report
By Laura Sperber – Legend Numismatics Market Report ........
Our show started VERY strong. Our first shot regular (we call him “super secret buyer”) made...
Legend Numismatics Rare Coin Market Report – Pre-New Orleans PCGS Invitational
By Laura Sperber – Legend Numismatics ....
WE CAN'T BELIEVE IT
We thought May would be a decent month. So far, it's turning out to be a record-breaking...
The Coin Market Report – The Dallas ANA Mid Winter Coin Show
By Laura Sperber – Legend Numismatics .....
SORT OF TYPICAL FOR A MID WINTER SHOW
While the ANA works hard to put on a good show,...
Legend Numismatics Rare Coin Market Report – Las Vegas PCGS Invitational Coin Show
By Laura Sperber – Legend Numismatics ....
THE SHOW
We never can say enough great things about the PCGS Invitationals in Las Vegas. They are by far the...
Legend Numismatics Post FUN Coin Market Report – The Stock Market Effect
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...
Legend Coin Market Report – THE 2016 FUN SHOW
By Laura Sperber – Legend Numismatics .....
FUN WAS MYSTERIOUS
First we must commend the FUN people for running a great show. Having it in Tampa...
Legend Rare Coin Market Report – WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON?
By Laura Sperber - Legend Numismatics ........
We're going to be brutally frank here.
In our strong opinion, three issues have constrained the market recently: lack...
Legend Numismatics – Long Beach Sale Report
It's always a really good sign to walk in and your "super secret" seller gives you a thumbs up and says they are already...
Legend Numismatics – The Pogue Sale Market Report
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...
Legend Numismatics Pre-Pogue Sale Market Report
By Laura Sperber - Legend Numismatics....
THE WAIT IS FINALLY OVER!
Finally, the sale that is so huge and dynamic that it actually stopped the upper...
Legend Numismatics Pre-Gardner Auction Market Report
By Laura Sperber – Legend Numismatics....
Unusual Activity
We can only make observations and report on what Legend did. Last week featured extra ordinary activity in the beginning....
The CSNS Show: Jekyll and Hyde
By Laura Sperber - Legend Numismatics....
This was certainly not the booming CSNS Shows we remember attending years ago in Indy or St Louis. It's...
Legend Numismatics Rare Coin Market Report – Here Comes a Market Upward Swing!
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...
Legend Numismatics Hot Topics – Coin Auction Buying And Coin Prices
By Laura Sperber - Legend Numismatics .......
I'M READY TO JUMP OUT OF MY SKIN!
Why will people pay crazy money in auction-when I can sell...
Legend Numismatics Market Report – PCGS Invitational Coin Show
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...
Legend Market Report: You Can Lead a Horse to Water, but…
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...
Legend Numismatics Rare Coin Market Report – BACK FROM THE DEAD
By Laura Sperber – Legend Numismatics …….
This past week was like we took our first big breath of fresh air for 2015.
After suffering through...
Legend Numismatics Rare Coin Market Report: The Coin Market is Brutal…… Just like this...
By Laura Sperber – Legend Numismatics …….
Came home to frigid temps and snow on the ground. YUCK! It was even more frigid at the...
A Candid 2015 “Hot Topics” on the Coin Market by Laura Sperber
2014 WAS THE YEAR FROM HELL
Can't say 2014 was a good year for myself or The Legend companies. We would have our good months,...
Legend Numismatics Rare Coin Market Report – NOVEMBER PCGS INVITATIONAL
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...