In danger of disappearing, Salisbury’s coin show has found a new home in Cambridge.

With an assist from Dorchester County coin dealer Erick Windsor, the show will go on Saturday, March 2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., hosted by American Legion Post 91 at 98 Sunburst Highway. Admission and parking are free, with food available for purchase.

The 30-year-old Windsor also played a key role in bringing back Cambridge’s own long-standing event in 2022, after the town’s once thriving coin club fell victim to the COVID pandemic.

Windsor is especially grateful for the Legion’s help and support, noting that over two hundred people attended the last coin show held there in October 2023.

“This isn't exactly the same small show people might remember, with five or six vendors,” Windsor noted, adding that Saturday’s show will feature 15 to 16 vendors from Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, and a representative from Anacs Coin Grading and Authentication Service, making a first Eastern Shore appearance.

The show also features a wide selection of dealers bringing a range of specialties, from lower end paper currencies to higher end gold.

“There is also one guy whose specialty is ancient coins from the Bible, “Windsor pointed out.

Working in the numismatics field professionally since 2015-2016, he started his own business, Windsor Coin and Currency, in 2020-21, attending about twenty-five shows per year, traveling to Gettysburg, Wilmington, and Philadelphia, which are also great trips for his three young children.

Baltimore and Pittsburgh, for instance, are ten times bigger than the Cambridge show. But the largest gathering by far has been the Florida United Numismatists, or FUN show in Orlando’s Civic Center.

“That one’s a real Mecca for collectors,” Windsor explained.

While the other dealers on the circuit are technically competitors, he has also come to consider many trusted colleagues, who support one another.

Windsor’s connection to coins dates to age 6 or 7, when his grandfather, an avid coin collector, showed him the state quarters. After he passed on, Windsor inherited his modest collection.

At age 12, he was old enough to do something with it, and began attending the Cambridge Coin Show by himself.

“After that, I went every year,” he recalled.

Without realizing it then, he was starting down the same path as other family members, all avid collectors of everything from cars to coins and stamps.

“Now, I get to collect and buy professionally,” Windsor mused, smiling at his good fortune.

He deals primarily in early 18th and 19th century U.S. coins and paper money. “The early American period is my meat and potatoes,” he added.

Windsor’s personal tastes tend towards local coins, particularly tokens. While those from Phillips Packing House are well known, he enjoys finding those issued by farms and canneries around Dorchester County to workers, who would turn them in at week’s end for pay.

For more information, visit windsorscoin.com and the Windsor Coin and Currency FB page.