LordM 2026 FUN show report (live updates from the floor)

Thanks for the info. I’ll try to get over there today and have a token struck and take some pics. Then I can include the token in with the giveaway.

(Y’all be sure to post an entry on the giveaway thread, if you haven’t already.).

 

Time to put the coin geek costume on. I went incognito yesterday. Gonna be in full regalia today.

The Holey Coin Hat only comes out of its box one day a year.

Today is that day.



(Dang, I’m lookin’ old.)

 

Much bigger lines at the registration booths today.



Nice prooflike medal as free swag. I’ll include it in the giveaway.

 

I finally opened up my wallet for the first time, and did three deals at the same table.



Mission accomplished on my $20 Lib upgrade. Same date. My rather generic 1899-S PCGS MS62 plus 75 bucks for a much better looking NGC MS63. (And in a prong-free holder, which is a plus for photography.)







Bought this Louis XV French ecu at the same table, for $150. I had a gold ecu (from much earlier), but not a silver one.

(PS- I only looked it up later. Catalog is only $75 in VF but $200 in XF. So maybe I overpaid a tiny bit, but considering my VF25 is already slabbed, maybe not by too much.)




Also bought this cool Hard Times “IOU” token, for the giveaway stash.

(Edit: no, that’s a CWT, not a HTT, isn’t it. They apparently mislabeled it. No matter- it’s still just as cool.)

 

I just came within a gnat’s whisker of buying this 1675 Ducaton from Liege. (PCGS VF35.) Only some nasty cracks in the slab plastic and the rather heavy adjustment marks on the reverse of the coin stayed my hand. Otherwise I liked it a lot.

Oops, kinda mixed my metaphors there. Eh, whatever.

 

Assorted eyecandy.



And some copper at the Ellsworth table.

 

By popular demand, I went back by the Gallery Mint table, but they were mobbed. A guy was doing a presentation. So it wasn’t the time to do closer pics or get a token struck. Sorry- maybe later.

 

Finally it’s time to have @messydesk shoot photos of six of my coins, including this morning’s purchases.

I hope to show the final results later.







PS- in the last pic above, he’s using some kind of oil to prevent minor slab scuffs/scratches from showing in the photos.