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<p>[QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2368637, member: 71723"]Part 6- Saturday morning</p><p><br /></p><p>"What is this place, and what have you done with the ANA show?" There were lines, brief lines, at registration. All they had to do was pick up a wrist band, and they were good to go. I was assigned to the Kid's Zone, basically to take the late great Myrna Lighterman's former post (as if anyone ever could). Rest in peace, dear Myrna, you're missed already. As soon as the Boy Scouts' Coin Collecting merit badge finished, we got DELUGED with rugrats in uniform and their siblings for Treasure Trivia. I had gotten my first taste of that two years ago in Atlanta, where the ANA talked me into full pirate costume, complete with eye patch. No real sword, though.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was a tale of two sides of the hall, or rather, the view from the front vs. the view from the back of the hall. If you were at the back, like I was, it looked like a normal busy largeish weekend coin show. If you were up front, it looked like everyone had left for the "Walker Stalker" convention down in Hall B, or the Berkshire Hathaway Realty convention at the hotel end of the Hutchison. Here's what wrong with the coin hobby, okay? Our show was FREE on Saturday, gratis! The Walker Stalker show was $55 a pop, and they had 10-20 times the crowd we did. Food for thought..., and no, that's NOT an "eating brains" pun reference, although it could have been.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the first order of business was to document the ANA Board of Governors meeting with a few stills, as if there was any movement that video could have recorded. I grabbed a copy of the budget and the proposals for changing the mediation procedures. Look for that in The Numismatist, ANA members. It is a significant change that adds some behind kicking "toofies" to the process.</p><p><br /></p><p>The families were the key to Saturday's business. Kids dragging parents around as much as vice versa. I even found most of my own purchases on Saturday. Here is where the sharp dealers who stayed for Saturday made extra dollar$. Provident and Dillon Gage, as well as some other new company, were there doing "wholesale only" bullion business on Thursday and Friday. By Saturday, about 10 dealers magically had retail silver bullion ounces for sale in their cases - generics, Britannias, Eagles, Maples of two varieties (Monkey privy and plain), even Libertads. Cha-ching! I managed to scarf up three dates of 1oz. Libertads that I needed, and only paid $20 a pop. One of the dates was 2011. Guess how much I saved NOT buying that one new in 2011. Hee, hee, hee.</p><p><br /></p><p>I actually stayed until the show was over, over, like the convention center carts were starting to bring pallets out from behind the curtains over. I had my hugs goodbye with Kim Kiick and Rhonda Scurek with promises to meet again in Anaheim.</p><p><br /></p><p>Best Bellman one-liner of the show:</p><p>A guy (could have been John Wilson) was snapping a group picture of us back at the Treasure Trivia booth, with several Board members. He said, "I have to get a picture of this august group." I said, "Nah, this is the March group, you can get the August group picture at Anaheim."</p><p><br /></p><p>Ba-doomp-chaaa.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2368637, member: 71723"]Part 6- Saturday morning "What is this place, and what have you done with the ANA show?" There were lines, brief lines, at registration. All they had to do was pick up a wrist band, and they were good to go. I was assigned to the Kid's Zone, basically to take the late great Myrna Lighterman's former post (as if anyone ever could). Rest in peace, dear Myrna, you're missed already. As soon as the Boy Scouts' Coin Collecting merit badge finished, we got DELUGED with rugrats in uniform and their siblings for Treasure Trivia. I had gotten my first taste of that two years ago in Atlanta, where the ANA talked me into full pirate costume, complete with eye patch. No real sword, though. This was a tale of two sides of the hall, or rather, the view from the front vs. the view from the back of the hall. If you were at the back, like I was, it looked like a normal busy largeish weekend coin show. If you were up front, it looked like everyone had left for the "Walker Stalker" convention down in Hall B, or the Berkshire Hathaway Realty convention at the hotel end of the Hutchison. Here's what wrong with the coin hobby, okay? Our show was FREE on Saturday, gratis! The Walker Stalker show was $55 a pop, and they had 10-20 times the crowd we did. Food for thought..., and no, that's NOT an "eating brains" pun reference, although it could have been. But the first order of business was to document the ANA Board of Governors meeting with a few stills, as if there was any movement that video could have recorded. I grabbed a copy of the budget and the proposals for changing the mediation procedures. Look for that in The Numismatist, ANA members. It is a significant change that adds some behind kicking "toofies" to the process. The families were the key to Saturday's business. Kids dragging parents around as much as vice versa. I even found most of my own purchases on Saturday. Here is where the sharp dealers who stayed for Saturday made extra dollar$. Provident and Dillon Gage, as well as some other new company, were there doing "wholesale only" bullion business on Thursday and Friday. By Saturday, about 10 dealers magically had retail silver bullion ounces for sale in their cases - generics, Britannias, Eagles, Maples of two varieties (Monkey privy and plain), even Libertads. Cha-ching! I managed to scarf up three dates of 1oz. Libertads that I needed, and only paid $20 a pop. One of the dates was 2011. Guess how much I saved NOT buying that one new in 2011. Hee, hee, hee. I actually stayed until the show was over, over, like the convention center carts were starting to bring pallets out from behind the curtains over. I had my hugs goodbye with Kim Kiick and Rhonda Scurek with promises to meet again in Anaheim. Best Bellman one-liner of the show: A guy (could have been John Wilson) was snapping a group picture of us back at the Treasure Trivia booth, with several Board members. He said, "I have to get a picture of this august group." I said, "Nah, this is the March group, you can get the August group picture at Anaheim." Ba-doomp-chaaa.[/QUOTE]
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