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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 3222842, member: 71723&quot;]Baltimore was nice. I spent $75 on a big honkin&#039; seafood dinner at Phillips Friday night. It rained full time the entire time I was in Baltimore, the heaviest as I slept through half of that 18 inning World Series game on TV. I got Amtrak bonus points out the wazoo for booking the Hampton Inn through Rocketmiles. That added enough points that my Harrisburg-Chicago Amtrak trip for the August ANA show is now a freebie in a Roomette. Up to four hours to kill in Pittsburgh for that. I know a great sports bar to catch a Pirates game. I&#039;ll pay cash for Amtrak Harrisburg to Pittsburgh in March, and NYC in January. More points.</p><p><br /></p><p>Got to the show early enough to catch up with old friends before the show opened. Got my goodies dropped off at NGC first, then hopped over to Allen Berman for the British stuff he had for me. I bought every piece he had set aside and a few more. We&#039;ll do dinner in NYC in January after his King of Bermania schtick the Saturday of that show.</p><p><br /></p><p>I picked up a few supplies, did a walk and look at MOST tables. Signed up with Don Kagin&#039;s catalog subscription (he&#039;s doing the Pittsburgh ANA show sale), and asked him if he had his nomination papers yet for ANA Prez (he didn&#039;t). Colonel Ellsworth (Butternut) was collecting signatures. The rumor mill is that a 3rd candidate may emerge. I like Ellsworth as a person, but he seems bent on eliminating exhibiting at ANA shows. He&#039;s at least a critic of it. I like the exhibits; it&#039;s how I learn about things outside my wheelhouse.</p><p><br /></p><p>After I snagged a P and D set of BU rolls of 2018 nickel and dimes, I stumbled across a dealer who had some nicer British stuff in his case and I picked up a nice 1937 crown in BU.</p><p><br /></p><p>After that, I checked my watch and saw it was 12:50PM, 10 minutes to the EAC club meeting. I&#039;m not a member, but I signed in with them. The Early American Coppers folks are good people. I&#039;m going to join if they&#039;ll have me. They are NOT slab fans, not even a little bit. They have their own standards. Contrarians with standards. Sounds like my kind of folks. I learned more sitting and listening that one hour than any other hour I can remember. They clean their stuff with brushes, use cotton liners, and everthang. They sheepishly apologize when they admit they also collect silver coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back to the bus station, back to Harrisburg.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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