Coin Show - General Information

Coin Show Bourse Chairman

The coin show promoter and bourse chairman is Bob O'Brien. He can be reached via email at 

 or via his office telephone: 770-772-4359. 

The phone's message provides information about the next show. Or, you can check our main home page for up-to-date information about the upcoming show. As the 2010 show year demonstrated, on rare occasions, the coin show can be cancelled. Both the telephone message and the website will alert you to any changes in the coin show's schedule should a change be necessary.

Coin Show History

The December 2011 monthly Greater Atlanta Coin Show ended the twenty-fourth year of the monthly coin shows. In 2011, the coin shows found a new location, only the fifth different location in twenty-four years.

We hope you enjoy the location and the ample parking. The location, the Hilton Atlanta/Marietta Hotel & Conference Center, will continue as the home of the monthly Greater Atlanta Coin Shows in 2012.

In its 24 years, the coin show has been in a few venues in the North Metro area. One hotel was our home for a number of years, but we were unable to renew our contract with them for the 1996 season because of the Atlanta Centennial Olympic Games.

The next hotel was a good location for several years as well, but a fire closed that venue.

The third hotel provided excellent service for a couple of years, but their limited parking challenged the ability of both coin dealers and guests to enjoy the show. Our fourth location was a great place with easy access and lots of parking, but issues outside our control forced us to find a new location for 2011.

The current location, the Hilton Atlanta/Marietta Hotel & Conference Center, offers beautiful space, lots of parking and history - lots of history. The site was once home to the Georgia Military Institute patterned after West Point. It operated from 1851 to 1864.

Today, the location boasts a beautiful hotel, a large conference area, an 18-hole golf course and Brumby Hall, the historically restored home of Colonel Arnoldus Brumby, which was spared during Sherman's burn of the south.

Twenty-four years of monthly coin shows - that's a lot of coin shows! Some years we did thirteen shows, and in a small handful of years we missed a month. Once was due to a hotel fire, another was a spring ice storm and still another was hotel renovation delays.

We're not quite there — yet — but 2012 will include our 300th monthly coin show. We are still thinking about how to celebrate that milestone!

The coin show is still fun and still going strong! We welcome all visitors ranging from the regulars we see each month to the new, never-been-to-a-coin-show attendees. Remember, admission is free.

Coin Show Security

For obvious reasons, coin shows require security. The Greater Atlanta Coin Show utilizes security with Jim Sherrill's security company.

Jim has extensive experience and only recently retired as a Sergeant of the Atlanta Police Department after many years serving the City of Atlanta.

Jim has provided excellent coin show security since the show began in 1988. You will also see him providing security for other coin shows such as the Georgia Numismatic Association and Blue Ridge Numismatic Association shows in Dalton Georgia.