I actually have a very different perspective on the National. I used to attend the National almost every year from 2003 thru 2016, but the novelty is over. The main reason to go nowadays to meetup with guys from this and other message boards and/or friends who are going. Leon's Net54 dinner was always one of, if not the highlight of attending the National. I used to think that you can only find stuff at the National that you'll never see anywhere else. That's true, but only because that stuff is being displayed at an auction house's booth for a current or upcoming auction. In reality, you can find almost anything you will ever want to purchase from auction houses, ebay, online stores, facebook, message boards, etc,...
The National can still be a lot of fun, but mostly for the social aspects of collecting.
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