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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;midas1, post: 1143611, member: 21309&quot;]-Arrived at the show at 10am.&nbsp; Bought $5.00 worth of gold coin raffle tickets from the baltimore coin club.&nbsp;&nbsp; The longest customer line to get in that I&#039;ve seen for this show. .&nbsp;&nbsp; This time instead of making the rounds of the complete show then going to the foreign section I meandered over there first.&nbsp; Went to booth #961 which is shared by&nbsp; two dealers, Mark Wm Clark &amp; David Cieniewicz (sp?).&nbsp; Mark &amp; Dave have been sharing a booth for at least several shows.&nbsp; I bought&nbsp; a few pieces of foreign currency.&nbsp; Dave had a Yugoslavia 10 dinar note w/ Atlas vignette printed from ABNCo plates, probably fine condition P-21A&nbsp; or P-219.&nbsp; (I&#039;m not familiar w/ pick codes at least I think they&#039;re called pick codes.)&nbsp; I wanted the bill but thought it was priced too high. Left there then started asking for buy prices on my 2010 proof AGE four coin album.&nbsp;&nbsp; prices ranged from $1,750.00 to $3,015.00 I sold it for $3,015.00 to Heritage Dallas, TX #155.&nbsp; Very close to Heritage&nbsp; is Great Money Gifts #58 I stopped by and bought stuff for one of the kids&#039; birthday - money wallet, ballpoint pen with the barrel filled with shredded money, greenback pencil and greenback strap eraser.&nbsp; I think i spent $12.00 there. </p><p>Broke for lunch at Cafe 100 which is located on the 2nd floor of the Bank of the America Building&nbsp; directly across from the main entrance of the show on Pratt St.&nbsp; They sell lunch fare&nbsp; and have a very large </p><p>diverse salad bar for $6.79 pound.&nbsp; Good quality food and it&#039;s fresh.&nbsp;&nbsp; I spent $10.00 and had a very nice lunch. They&#039;re closed on Saturdays so tomorrow I&#039;ll probably have lunch at a place on the first floor of the same </p><p>building.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>After lunch stopped by&nbsp; some of the usual medal vendors I see every year.&nbsp; Sometimes I buy and other times I don&#039;t.&nbsp; So far this year I haven&#039;t bought any but a couple are on the list for tomorrow:</p><p>Steve Hayden Tokens and Medals (don&#039;t have booth # he&#039;s probably listed in the directory)&nbsp; he was asking $130.00 for the classic Pony Express medal by James Earle Fraser - rider at full gallop pointing pistol to the rear and the reverse has a covered wagon.&nbsp;&nbsp; There&#039;s a serious blemish on the obverse.&nbsp; Among his other medals is a bronze Apache medal by Houser.&nbsp;&nbsp; I don&#039;t remember what he&#039;s asking for it.&nbsp; Some other medal vendors I&#039;ve done business with and will do business with again: Cunningham Exonumia #962 and David #762.&nbsp; </p><p>Each show I spend more time looking at large American bank notes, especially the Education series.&nbsp;&nbsp; While I&#039;m mulling over an Educational $2.00 bill I run into an old friend.&nbsp; While we&#039;re&nbsp; catching&nbsp; up he tells me he just got&nbsp; a patent on a math procedure.&nbsp; Go figure.&nbsp; &nbsp; He and I stop by David Amey&#039;s booth and I ask about the Yugoslavia 10 dinar ABNCo note.&nbsp; He says it&#039;s one of his favorite notes which is all I needed to hear so I go back to booth #962 and and buy it for $175.00.&nbsp; Wander over to the NGC booth but the line is moving too slowly so I check out some more vendors.&nbsp;&nbsp; I bought a beautiful red 1914 Shanghai bill for $20.00. Bought two 2011 ASEs for $83.00 from Provident metals #11.&nbsp; The ASEs&nbsp; may have been available cheaper but at this point I&#039;m tired.&nbsp; &nbsp; I spent around $353.00 including lunch $10.00&nbsp; and parking $10.00.</p><p>Did not make it to the penny lady&#039;s booth.&nbsp; &nbsp; During the day moderate crowds until around noon when it gets crowded then slacks off a bit around 2pm.</p><p>will post scans of my purchases later.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Update:</p><p>the Burger King is closed in the Bank of America building across from the Charles and Pratt St entrance of the Convention Center.</p><p>PArking was easier and cheaper this year.&nbsp;&nbsp; I parked in one of the lots in the 001 block of Charles St. They&#039;re located on west side of Charles St where Redwood dead ends.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>$10.00 in before 9am and out before 6pm. It&#039;s about a block and one half northeast from the convention center.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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