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

For my hat, you mean?

Yes, please!

 

Given my dicey gastrointestinal hangover from last night’s dining, I skipped breakfast this morning. Getting hungry now.

Not hungry enough, however, to buy anything at the nosebleed-exorbitant concession stand prices. Not yet, anyway.

Maybe I’ll fast until dinner. Maybe.

 

Gorny & Mosch from Germany had some wow stuff (I’ve been wanting a 16th century thaler), but all the stuff that caught my eye was way beyond my price range.

One of those Roman aureii was prooflike, though my pics didn’t capture its flashiness.

 

Boom! Mission accomplished, at my next stop. 1564 Saxony thaler. No apparent issues, and I didn’t see any traces of old mount removal. Sold. 500 bucks. That one will go off with my NGC submission. I hope it straight-grades. It looks problem-free to me.

 

I failed miserably at photographing this exquisitely toned Barber half and pattern dime.

 

I wish!

 

Fun little ANACS soapbar I picked up for my giveaways. Forty bucks. It’s a lusterbomb.

PS- the dealer had ten of ‘em, all 1999. I wouldn’t be surprised if they had consecutive serial numbers. He tried to sell me the lot. I only wanted one. In retrospect, if I find him again Sunday morning, I might buy one more.

 

End of Day 2 (for us).

Randy and I are both completely tuckered out, or as the British say, knackered.

Back to the hotel for a rest, before the long-awaited steak dinner…

 

Nope. An early dinner first, then back to the hotel.





I’ll be having the soup (Zuppa di Stracciatella) …





… followed by the Filet Marsala.



Randy will have the Shrimp Cocktail…



… followed by (of course) … his long-awaited (drumroll) … 1-1/2 pound Delmonico steak, just as he had last year!

 

Mine:



His: