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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 1031147, member: 16948&quot;]Sorry I haven&#039;t been posting much here lately, but I ran into a couple CT members (Kanga, 900Fine) so I thought I&#039;d better stop backsliding and get back to seeing what&#039;s going on here and contributing to this wonderful forum.&nbsp; I&#039;ll start by posting my CoinFest and Baltimore coin show reports.</p><p><br /></p><p>I set up at CoinFest with Rick Snow which was the first time we did that, and it worked out nicely.&nbsp; Even though we have similar material, his is more higher end and even though I have some high end Indian cents, I mostly have mid-range uncirculated and circulated copper, so it was kind of like a nice inventory marriage!</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>CoinFest</u></b></p><p><b><u><br /></u></b></p><p><b><u></u></b>Unfortunately, the show didn&#039;t go that well for most dealers, including me and Rick - I had only a few small sales and one big sale but that was about it.&nbsp; The poor sales were due to many factors, but partially because this show was right behind the Baltimore show and also it had just changed locations.&nbsp; It was in a beautiful room at the Marriott in Stamford, CT, but whenever a coin show moves to a new facility, you always seem to lose a little percentage of the attendance.&nbsp; The show promoters really did a fantastic job promoting the show, but sometimes other factors that are out of their hands affect the success of a show.&nbsp; Sadly, I understand that they will discontinue putting this show on.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Baltimore</u></b></p><p><b><u><br /></u></b></p><p><b><u></u></b>Below are a few photos I took during the drive from CoinFest to the Newark airport last weekend (sorry they are not very good but they were taken through the windshield as we were driving).&nbsp; Rick was kind enough drive me to the airport and we took a little side tour through New York since I hadn&#039;t been to New York in over 25 years.&nbsp; We went past Ground Zero, the Manhattan Bridge, and through the Holland tunnel past the Statue of Liberty.&nbsp; It was a wonderful little jaunt and I took a few photos from the car as we drove past a few memorable sites.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00054-20101030-1731.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00053-20101030-1729.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00052-20101030-1729.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00050-20101030-1728.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00049-20101030-1721.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00048-20101030-1720.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00047-20101030-1720.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I set up at this show with Todd (bluccphotos.com), and we have a good time bantering and helping each other out.&nbsp; On the first day of the Baltimore show during dealer set up, I bought several BEAUTIFUL scarce/rare Conder tokens at this show, thanks to Ron Sirna and Gary Groll - who do a very good job taking care of my Conder habit!&nbsp; They steer me towards the best/prettiest tokens and I always get a great education just listening to them talk about each one.&nbsp; Ron is an especially wonderful friend and I always enjoy his company - he loves good wine and beautiful Conder tokens - what more could a girl want!&nbsp; I gave the Conders to Todd to photograph and will post them when Todd gets unburied enough to finalize them for me!</p><p><br /></p><p>I also bought a great partial roll of original (uncleaned) unc (red/red brown) later date Indian cents!&nbsp; I can&#039;t wait to sift through them and see what little gems are in this roll!&nbsp; Here&#039;s a quick photo of these little beauties.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/partialroll.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Any way, as far as the show went, it was very good, though Saturday was slower than the other days and most dealers reported slow sales.&nbsp; They said the majority of their sales were lower priced items, but there were a lot of people who just wanted to &quot;look&quot; and weren&#039;t interested in actually purchasing coins which I experienced as well.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But I did a lot of buying at this show, which is usual for me at these larger shows.&nbsp; I bought a lot of better date collector grade coins (XF/AU) and especially some nice Early American Copper since that is what seems to be pretty popular. I also picked up some nice MS certified better date Lincolns as well, including a nice uncirculated 1914-D and one in AU58, and even a few beautiful gem PCGS MS65 Red Indian cents, which is unusual for me since I prefer RB but these were pristine and priced right.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Todd was busy for most of the show.&nbsp; We saw and chatted with several CT and CU forum members: Goldbully (we get a kick out of him that&#039;s for sure!), Breakdown (always a huge pleasure visiting with my fellow Tom Petty buddy), and many others I can&#039;t think of right now.&nbsp;&nbsp; Here are a few photos I took.....</p><p><br /></p><p>Goldbully:</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00078-20101106-1020.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Todd standing around doing nothing (not really, but I don&#039;t want him to get a big head)!</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00072-20101106-1015.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, we had the BEST bourse neighbors I&#039;ve ever had!&nbsp; They were a couple of local dealers who were extremely friendly and fun, and especially loved my music!!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Other than Todd (who doesn&#039;t really count any way <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) everyone was happy with the music I was playing on my iPod docking station.&nbsp; I was also very appreciative of our friendly neighbors since brought me some real wine glasses so I didn&#039;t have to use the plastic cups I brought, and they even recommended a wonderful restaurant that we went to on Saturday night (where we also listened to Rick Snow sing karaoake but he wouldn&#039;t let me publish the photos I too!). :1Applause;</p><p><br /></p><p>Our wonderful local Baltimore bourse neighbors:</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00073-20101106-1017.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Saturday I got to the airport a little early so I enjoyed my usual pre-flight cocktail and some wonderful boneless wings.&nbsp; I then boarded the plane with at least half a dozen other dealers who were headed back to LA on the same flight.&nbsp; I had another local show today so I had to leave the Baltimore show a little early.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a few more photos I took on Saturday - enjoy!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s the PCGS table in the back of the room right behind us....</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00076-20101106-1019.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00075-20101106-1019.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/IMG00074-20101106-1019.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Then when I got home last night, I went straight to bed since traveling for 11 days was exhausting!&nbsp; This morning when I got up, it sure was dark outside, but I knew my hubby had reset the clock last night; however, after getting all ready for my local show, packing the car, I soon discovered that my not-so-dear hubby had set the clock AHEAD an hour, so I had gotten up at 4am instead of 6am!!!&nbsp; ARGGGGGG!&nbsp; I had just lost TWO precious hours of much needed sleep.......&nbsp; So I made him take me to Dennys for breakfast where I promptly had 2 cups of coffee, then I had 3 more cups at the show today![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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