ANDA World Note and Coin Expo Melbourne 18-20 Oct 2013

[dcoin]

Plus the venue was stupidly hard to find and poorly signed.  The actual stadium was hard to miss, where in the stadium the show was being held was much more difficult.

If you weren't from Melbourne then you may have walked round the stadium once or twice looking for the small sign directing you up the lifts to the show, for sure.

[MobOfRoos]

I went to the show yesterday expecting a lot and was disappointed.  There were no international coin dealers in attendance other than John Eccles from New Zealand who comes every year to the ANDA shows anyway.  The international "dealers" who were there were not dealers, they were purveyors of bullion and NCLT and other such stuff.

Plus the venue was stupidly hard to find and poorly signed.  The actual stadium was hard to miss, where in the stadium the show was being held was much more difficult.

Agreed. It was really just an ANDA show with the Canadian and Royal Mints there. Not very "international" at all.

I also found it difficult to locate. Did a complete lap of the stadium before having to backtrack to find the entrance.

Still I did buy a UK and Canadian Mint set plus a few other things

[markn]

Plus the venue was stupidly hard to find and poorly signed.  The actual stadium was hard to miss, where in the stadium the show was being held was much more difficult.

If you weren't from Melbourne then you may have walked round the stadium once or twice looking for the small sign directing you up the lifts to the show, for sure.

From the people I spoke to who were from Melbourne they ended up doing a lap of the stadium anyway

[Australian coin]

hey peeps, just a quick visit as I have to go out shortly, just downloaded a heaps of pics and video clips of the show and they will slowly be put up on the forum for everyone. I have pics of all the new 2014 coins with prices, and the speed painter media press event {I loved it} plus the coin auction items too, like the 37 threepence pattern and penny WOO! I got special treatment and seen things that before the public

[triplewitch]

We want to hear about the portable press.

[Australian coin]

haha I will start with what everyone had been waiting to see, I was given special privilege to be able to photograph the 2014 coins. (the only person) so the first pic is the colour $1 for the yearly mint set - even the mint had trouble taking pics themselves so this is the best shot I could get for capturing colour, and the second is the proof $1 gilded type for the proof set, the proof is on a cupro nickel planchet, but in the speech later on in the day the press mint guy called it a silver coin.
these coins will only be available in the yearly sets!!!

>>I have better pics for PP blog I will email them thru tomorrow<<
have pics of front and back

ah I am going out for the rest of the day so will have to add the other stuff tomorrow

[Unicorn]

Thanks for the pics AC, they're great.

[Fulvio]

I went to the show yesterday expecting a lot and was disappointed.

I feel so much better now about not going. :yahoo:
I decided to give ANDA a big miss after a particularly disappointing show many years ago, and haven't regretted that decision yet.

[purplepennyhunter]

Certainly don't look as fluffy in the press imageas those in AC's shot.

[markn]

Here's a show report for your perusal.  No doubt there's some typos I've missed because PPH hasn't had time to cast her sharp eye over it yet.  So be gentle with me.

http://www.australian-threepence.com/blog/2013/10/2013-melbourne-international-coin-and-banknote-show-report.html

[runway]

Pity if the event was a flop

[triplewitch]

Your experience may vary depending upon your level of expertise.  Since it's the first show, they will no doubt work out some of the bugs for next year.

[Goldseeker]

When one looks about Melbourne, this show was "very poorly advertised".   I really can't remember seeing anything on the TV or ads in the papers/magazines that this show was on.

The weather was fine so it wasn't the "poor old Melbourne weather" that stopped the attendance.

I would have thought that the portable press would have been the main attraction but any unsold coins would/will be passed on to collectors by other means.

The crowd wasn't much better on Friday.   Maybe 100 max when the doors opened at 10am but after that the crown was very thin all day.

I have to agree that signage .about the Stadium was very, very poor.   No outside advertising tarps at all.

Be interested to find out exactly the attendance for the three day show and how many dealers made a profit and those that didn't.

[Fulvio]

how many dealers made a profit and those that didn't.

I'd bet the dealers would all be unhappy.

Shows have complex economics at the best of times. But the trend towards professional event management and deluxe venues has pretty much nailed the coffin shut on special interest shows like coins.

There are now four vested interests.
1. Attendees
2. Exhibitors
3. Venues
4. Promoters

The problem is the promoters make a killing. So does the venue.
Exhibitors pay an absolute fortune to attend.
And Attendees cop it in the neck for everything from admission to parking to food to travel, since the glitzy venues are all in the CBD where travel/parking is a hassle.

So people stay away in droves. Exhibitors lose money they can't afford, and give up on future events.

All in all a pretty poor effort all round. Made even worse by failure to market effectively.

I'm inclined to think it would be better to exhibit at major general interest events like home shows and the like, where people show up in droves

[Australian coin]

hey back today, wow had a few busy days, enjoying the sun, going to some lovely places out bush and enjoying swimming in remote streams and going shooting, yeah now I am tired out.

hmm not sure how to add movies on this site but will give it a go later

so if you were a little early bird on the Friday, and went to the media pre launch for the Perth Mint new series Australian megafauna, you could have seen all the glitz and glam of the media circuit, this had perks that included free food and free entry to the museum and the expo



we got to see the designer Peter Trusler, and took pics, plus we got him to sign our coin for us too!!!

things of interest were original design images, I took a pic of the one on display, but a lucky lady won another concept image that was quickly tucked away.




next we had the lengthy walk around the stadium to line up for entry to the expo, I took this walk several times as I went to the coin auction area too.

first stop as always is the RAM stand

the counterstamp $1 set up



later in the day my dad found a unstamped $1 on the floor, when he piked it up Goldy took it and teases the operator, who make a huge song and dance about it and demanded it be returned, along with ill loose my job if its not returned and ill call security, hmm I don't know if it was fun or games or not, but I didn't want to get involved with it, kind of upset me for the day, anyway the coin was returned, and we did the right thing, but yeah kinda sucked
RAM 2014 products sneak peak



ok so the baby mint set will still contain the Ethel Pedley's Dot and the Kangaroo medallion and $1
ill add some interesting items from dealers next having a break