I had a lot of fun at the show because someone was kind enough to bring a World Coin bin or two and let me go through them. At 10 cents and 3 cents per coin in the bin, I happily sat myself down and went coin by coin. My world type collection isn't huge but I have to put some extra effort into not pulling coins I don't already have. It takes a little mental gymnastics to look at a coin in a half second and decide to keep or toss. I managed to pull out 48 coins/tokens I didn't own and a few I did own in better condition than what I have. Notable coins include: - North Korea 5 Chon from 2008 that I fished out on accident. I actually thought it was a generic South Korea coin, but I didn't recognize it and it actually fell out of my hands into the discard bin but it caught my eye and I snagged it. - Great Britain half cent from the early 1700s KM 566 (it's about FR01-02 but I was able to match diameter and some of the markings to get it correct) Pretty cool to find a coin older than your country and pick it up for only 10 cents. I understand many of you would've passed but I can carry this bad boy around and get people interested in coins by using it as a talking piece. If they drop it, it only cost me 10 cents - 1920 Coblenz 10 Pfennig Notgeld. It's in terrible condition and rotted to heck but it's my first one and I'm excited to own it. I'd like to learn more about them as well as figure out how to conserve it. - Guyana 1967 1 Cent, my first coin from that country - Straits Settlements Half Cent 1862. Also almost unrecognizable but based on diameter and some of the letters I can make out, I'm pretty sure it's the KM 5. - Norway 10 Ore and Romania 20 Lei under German Occupation
