Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 1440624, member: 16948&quot;]Happy Mother’s Day to all the other mother’s on the forum!&nbsp; I hope you all get to spend some quality time with your family.&nbsp; I arrived home from the show last night, was exhausted, and went to bed early so Then my sweet hubby took me to Mimi’s for a wonderful breakfast this morning, so I’m getting a little late start on putting my show report together.&nbsp; But here goes….</p><p><br /></p><p>Wednesday – I arrived in Denver early in the afternoon, with beautiful clear skies and wonderfully warm weather.&nbsp; I took some pictures from the plane as we flew over the majestic Rocky Mountains.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20120509-01891.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20120509-01893.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20120509-01894.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I took a cab to the convention center which was about 45 minutes away – I hadn’t realized how far outside of Denver the airport actually was!&nbsp; Luckily the cab had a flat rate of $55.&nbsp; </p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20120511-01980.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Set up was at 3:00pm so I had a few minutes to visit with other dealers in the lobby before we were let in.&nbsp; Here’s a typical group of motley dealers I found lurking in the lobby!</p><p><br /></p><p>Roger/MustangGT, DennisH, Lee Bellisario, Todd/Blu62Vette/BluCCPhotos, Tony/Northern Nevada Coin</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120509-01896.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The ANA created different dealer badges so we all had to get new badges.&nbsp; But for some reason, the lighting was off (or it could have been something weird with the printer) because my new badge shows me with RED hair!</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/ElToro-20120513-02040.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>After I was set up, I took a tour of the ANA and U.S. Mint exhibits (the collector exhibits weren’t set up yet)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120509-01902.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120509-01903.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120509-01901.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120509-01905.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120509-01904.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120510-01940.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120510-01938.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>These are all replica bills</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120510-01939.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120510-01935.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120510-01934.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120510-01936.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120510-01942.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120510-01941.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Money burnt in a house fire</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120510-01944.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120509-01900.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120510-01952.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A couple very hard-working ANA guys – Rod Gillis and Walter Ostromecki</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120510-01933.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and now that I have &quot;The Penny Lady&quot; trademark, I had a few hats made, but for some reason, I can&#039;t get any of my guy friends to wear them?!?!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120510-01929-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>After set up day was over, we decided to head to the casinos up in the old mining towns of Central City and Blackhawk, which were about 45 minutes away.&nbsp; The towns are very quaint with most of the buildings looking like they were built in the 1800’s, with a few exceptions.&nbsp; There were probably at least 20 casinos between the two towns which were only a mile apart.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/CentralCity-20120509-01910.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/CentralCity-20120509-01909.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/CentralCity-20120509-01911.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>We went to the poker room at the Lady Luck casino, which ended up not being quite so lucky for us!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/CentralCity-20120509-01913.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>We had (not so great) bratwurst for dinner courtesy of the poker room, and this was my drink of choice all night!</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120510-01932.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/CentralCity-20120509-01914-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>They had some very unique names for some of their casinos…</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/CentralCity-20120509-01915-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thursday – The ANA had their usual opening ceremony prior to letting the public in. Tom Hallenbeck presented an award to Chuck D&#039;ambra.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120510-01919.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120510-01918.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As you can see, there was quite a crowd of people waiting for the show to open, but even so, Thursday seemed a little light compared to other large show opening days.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120512-02019.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120511-01983.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120511-01981.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>However, it didn’t take long for the room to start filling up and having the usual buzz and the forum members to start dropping by.&nbsp; Here are a few forum members and others….</p><p><br /></p><p>Buck/Hobo and Mark/ColoradoCoinGuy</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120510-01921.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>JMW/Joe</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120510-01922.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>USArok/Terry</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120510-01931.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Mark Feld trying to earn extra money as a Pepsi salesman!</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120510-01924.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Julian/Julian Liedman</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120510-01920.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My next door neighbors (Todd and his dad Roger) - I didn’t even need rubberbands to keep them them in line, I could just reach over with my empty water bottle and bop them anytime I felt like it!</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120509-01907.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Don Berry/TEC Elongated Club</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120510-01925.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I also bought this very nice 1901 PanAm Expo elongated Indian cent from Don</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/ElToro-20120513-02037.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120510-01926.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I was helping with the kids’ Treasure Trivia game again – here are some of the little cutey pies who came by my table for the question (and Penny Lady coin card!)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120510-01930.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120512-02020.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The U.S. Mint&#039;s Buffalo mascot</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120512-02024.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Denver-20120512-02026.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I had submitted several of my Conder tokens for grading at NGC and was very excited to pick them up at the show.&nbsp; I was very pleased with the grades, most being MS65!&nbsp; Todd took photos of them for me, but here is a group shot.&nbsp; </p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/ElToro-20120513-02041.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The Denton’s 298 (NGC MS64 BN) is quite rare (the obverse is a connoisseur smoking a pipe, at a table spread with medals, an old man behind him putting on his head a fool’s cap and the reverse is an ass and a mule saluting “BE ASSURED FRIEND MULE YOU NEVER SHALL WANT MY PROTECTION”).&nbsp; </p><p><img src="http://bluccphotos.com/clients/charmy/4-5-12a/Images/6.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Also one of my favorites is the Yorkshire/Beverly 13 (NGC MS65 RB) is also rare and depicts the universal Pawnbroker symbol.</p><p><img src="http://bluccphotos.com/clients/charmy/4-5-12a/Images/14.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>One other that I really like is the Suffolk 38 (NGC MS65 BN) – it’s is one of the most beautifully toned Conder tokens I’ve seen:&nbsp; The obverse is a Shield of arms of Sudbury and says “MAY THE TRADE OP SUD-BURY FLOURISH.”&nbsp; The reverse says “PRO BONO | PUBLICO | 1798”</p><p><img src="http://bluccphotos.com/clients/charmy/4-5-12a/Images/13.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in