ANA's 2000 National Money Show To Be Held March 3 - 5

By Universe Editor - February 29, 2000

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The American Numismatic Association will hold its annual National Money Show in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida on March 3 - 5, 2000.

The trade show technically begins on Tuesday, February 29 with Auction Lot Viewings and a U.S. Coin Grading Seminar at the convention site, the Ft. Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center. On Wednesday and Thursday (March 1 and 2), ANA will hold board meetings and dealer registration will take place, in addition to more auction lot viewing. But the "official" opening isn't until Friday, March 3, with opening ceremonies at 9:45 a.m. followed by ribbon-cutting at 10:00 a.m. The bourse opens to the public at the same time, and remains open through 3:00 p.m. Sunday, March 5.

Two ANA Governors will be giving talks during the conference. Alan Herbert will speak on "The On-Line Collector" on Friday at 11:00 a.m., and on Saturday at 11:00 a.m. Anthony Swiatek will talk about "Numismatic Treasures".

Other scheduled speakers on Friday, March 3rd include John Zuk on "Pitfalls of Buying Coins on the Internet...and How to Avoid Them", Beth Deisher on "First the Book: Building a Core Numismatic Library", Ronald Benice with "An Overview of Colonial paper Money", John and Nancy Wilson on "The Sale of the Century: the ABNCo Archives" and Robert Perrine on "Musings of a Life-Long Collector".

Saturday's speakers include Dr. Alan T. Craig, talking about "New Treasure Coins from the Florida Collection", Scott Travers on "Coin Collecting For The New Millennium and Beyond", David Lange on "Rare United States Silver Dollars", David Provost's talk on "Coinage of the Republic of Cuba: The Pre-Castro Years", Brian Silliman speaking on "Counterfeit Detection Series II - United States Gold" (followed immediately by a hands-on session), and JSG Boggs on "Art and Money".

The U.S. Mint will be holding a Kids Mini-Conference throughout the show, with activities geared toward young collectors. There will also be a seminar entitled "eBay 101" for those interested in buying and selling on the on-line auction site.

Speaking of auctions, the ANA Superior auction will be conducted in two sessions, on Thursday and Friday evening at 7:00 p.m. respectively.

For more information on the 2000 National Money Show, visit the ANA website at www.money.org.