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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 1913875, member: 16948&quot;]Thank you everyone, I&#039;m glad you enjoyed my show report.</p><p><br /></p><p>Amanda, thank you for getting this thread back on track, it sure went sideways quickly.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Just a quick explanation about Detecto&#039;s comment.&nbsp; When he used the photo of a coin from my personal collection that was on my website, and posted it without even asking permission, I was taken aback by his initial response to me asking about it (he said I needed to prove it was my coin), and then when I did prove it was my coin, he never apologized, nor gave me or Todd credit for using the photo.&nbsp; Had he simply asked in the first place, it would have been no problem.&nbsp; And when he stopped by at the show, it was the first time since that experience that I had talked to him, so I felt by bringing it up, perhaps he would finally apologize - which he did.&nbsp; I was not angry, just felt he should have followed through, and that it is never too late to apologize for a wrongdoing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now back to my show report and the questions about my exhibit, I have no idea who the judge was or why he felt the need to give me such a low score, especially compared to the other 2 judges who scored by exhibit. </p><p><br /></p><p>Having exhibited at several shows now, I certainly understand how the exhibits are scored, but just as in coins, their scoring and opinions are obviously subjective. Otherwise, there wouldn&#039;t have been such an extreme variance in the scores between this one judge and the other judges who have judged my exhibit - including all the other shows where I&#039;ve displayed my exhibit and have been awarded either Best in Show (FUN, Long Beach, Houston) or runner up to Best in Show (both ANA&#039;s). </p><p><br /></p><p>Many of the winners were regular exhibitors, except for one who well deserved his awards.&nbsp; And I&#039;m not saying the other winners didn&#039;t deserve it because there were some wonderful exhibits at this show.&nbsp; But I have heard from several people that exhibiting at these shows can be very &quot;political&quot; with some &quot;nepotism&quot; thrown in, especially among regular exhibitors, but I have no way of knowing whether that was the case here.&nbsp; I&#039;m just chalking this experience up to a very sour judge.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will be taking my exhibit to the PNNA Tukwila this week, and then the Chicago ANA in August, and that will be it.&nbsp; My plan all along had been to display it for one year, and then retire it, so August will be one year that I&#039;ve been exhibiting, and that is enough for me![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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