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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 1508348, member: 16948&quot;]FYI, when I was writing and preparing my report the other night, I didn’t have my notes with me, so I’ve made some changes and added a few more photos above today.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thursday – The show started out a little slow and the public trickled in, but soon the bourse was buzzing with activity.&nbsp; Between regular customers looking for coins for their collections, “inquiring minds” customers, “just lookin” customers, the packs of cute little kids’ working on their treasure trivia sheet, and vest pocket dealers showing me coins, I was kept steadily busy so I didn’t get out much to take more photos around the bourse floor.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>By the way, I should mention that on Tuesday and Wednesday, I’ve never seen Todd more busy taking coin photos than at this show.&nbsp; Every time I turned around there was another pile of coins in the case on the back table.&nbsp; They just kept piling up.&nbsp; And I was constantly tapping on Todd’s shoulder to remove his head from his photo cave because another customer wanted to talk to him.&nbsp; I was getting worried that he wouldn’t have time to take photos of MY coins!&nbsp; You’d think that since we share a table, I’d have priority, but somehow it works out that my coins get pushed to the very bottom of the pile!&nbsp; I guess I’m going to have to be nicer to Todd – NOT!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>However, I did manage to snap photos of a few more people who stopped by to say hi:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>AJ/JerseyCat</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20120809-02737.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Darryl/USS656</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20120809-02739.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>ColonelJessup</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20120809-02741.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Scott Rottinghaus/ANA Governor and his lovely wife</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Philadelphia-20120809-02738.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>An adorable little guy working on his Treasure Trivia hunt</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG-20120809-02745.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A couple pretty little trinket bracelets I picked up/traded for from a dealer friend (I sure love my bling!)</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Leyden-20120808-02715-2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>After the show, I headed over to the little Sugar House casino that on the other side of town.&nbsp; However, they didn’t have a poker room so I had a great time playing some 3-card poker, Black-Jack, and Ultimate Texas Hold-Um.&nbsp; However, your money sure comes and goes a lot faster playing these games over regular Texas Hold-Um poker!</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Philadelphia-20120809-02750.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Philadelphia-20120809-02751.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Friday – It started out pretty much the same as Thursday, the crowds sort of trickled in and the bourse floor seemed a little sparse for a while.&nbsp; But thankfully, the buzz soon returned and business picked up.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>At noon, Todd went over to the PCGS lunch, and as soon as he returned, I went to the Fly-In Club meeting.&nbsp; David Bowers was giving a very interesting presentation on Civil War Tokens next door to our club meeting room, and it was still going on when I arrived so I listened in for a little while.&nbsp; When I arrived, he was talking about how some merchants created encased postage stamps to use as trade tokens for their stores.&nbsp; I found it interesting because I just saw an episode on Pawn Stars where a guy was selling the exact same thing from the early 1860’s with a Washington 3 cent stamp in the encasement.&nbsp; I have several encased Indian cents in my personal collection, so I think these encased stamps are quite fascinating.&nbsp; Here’s a photo of a similar encased stamp.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Encased5cfront1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The room was completely packed with standing room only.&nbsp; Here are a couple photos of Mr. Bowers’ talk but the room was dark so the photos didn’t turn out that well.</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Philadelphia-20120810-02753.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Philadelphia-20120810-02752.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Then I went to my Fly-In Club meeting which is always interesting and informative.&nbsp; Rick talked about and showed everyone various counterfeit Indian cents and some 1909-S vdb cents.&nbsp; To me, education on learning how to detect counterfeit coins is one of the most important parts of numismatics, and the more we can see and handle actual counterfeits and learn how they are made, the better we can enhance the quality of numismatics.&nbsp; Unfortunately, I was so caught up in listening and learning, that I forgot to take photos at the meeting!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Back on the bourse floor, I saw this funny looking bird walking around!</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Philadelphia-20120810-02754.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Towards the end of the day on Friday, a customer walked up to my table and offered me this very interesting OVAL Indian cent pocket mirror.&nbsp; I have seen and own round pocket mirror advertising pieces, but I have never even seen an oval-shaped one!&nbsp; I thought it was very cool, so we worked out a deal and I now have this little beauty in my own collection.&nbsp; (I will post a photo of it tomorrow.)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>After the show ended, Todd and I went over to a little noodle house restaurant in China town for dinner.&nbsp; </p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Philadelphia-20120810-02755.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Philadelphia-20120810-02756.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Todd had these turnip appetizers at another Chinese restaurant and said they were really good, so we decided to order a dish of them.&nbsp; However, when they arrived, Todd said they didn’t look like the ones he’d had before.&nbsp; We both tried them, and they were so spicy hot that we could only handle a couple of them!&nbsp; (I’m definitely a weanie when it comes to spicy food!).&nbsp; We also ordered some very yummy pan-fried dumplings and the same bbq pork noodle dish which was delicious.</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Philadelphia-20120810-02760.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Philadelphia-20120810-02759.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>At our table was this very large bottle of sauce that Todd called “chicken sauce.”&nbsp; I’d never seen it before but Todd said it was very good and that people put it on everything!</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/Philadelphia-20120810-02758.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And just so you all know, I opted out of going out for drinks after dinner just so I could work on my report.&nbsp; (Ok, perhaps I was a somewhat influenced by the fact that I’m a little tired and wanted to get to bed early since I have a WIN (Women in Numismatics) meeting early tomorrow morning.)</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;p.s.&nbsp; I understand the CAC character in the early photos is John Albanese&#039;s son!</p><p><br /></p><p>More to follow…..[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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