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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 1546979, member: 16948&quot;]The Buena Park Coin Show is held twice a year, usually in March and October.&nbsp; It has about 60+ tables and is usually very well attended by the public.&nbsp; I understand there’s also a waiting list for dealer’s to get a table at this show.&nbsp; I arrived around 8am and checked in at registration.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2010%20Buena%20Park/Anaheim-SantaAna-GardenGrove-20121006-02993.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Then I set up my table and finished just in time for the public.&nbsp; There was a good group of people waiting to get in, and soon the show began filling up and was buzzing with activity.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2010%20Buena%20Park/Anaheim-SantaAna-GardenGrove-20121006-02986.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2010%20Buena%20Park/Anaheim-SantaAna-GardenGrove-20121006-02984.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I had my usual Buena Park and Long Beach show helper with me, Rich, and also my son Erik for good measure!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2010%20Buena%20Park/Anaheim-SantaAna-GardenGrove-20121006-02987-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A couple forum members stopped by, including some a couple PCGS “dignitaries”!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Don Willis</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2010%20Buena%20Park/Anaheim-SantaAna-GardenGrove-20121006-02992.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ron Guth</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2010%20Buena%20Park/Anaheim-SantaAna-GardenGrove-20121006-02982.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Mike/Illini</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2010%20Buena%20Park/Anaheim-SantaAna-GardenGrove-20121006-02983.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>One of my regular customers stopped by my table to show me his completed set of Two Cent Pieces.&nbsp; Over the past few years, I sold him several pieces for his set, and at the Long Beach show, I had sold him the last piece he needed to complete his Two Cents set and he wanted to show me his entire collection.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2010%20Buena%20Park/Anaheim-SantaAna-GardenGrove-20121006-02999.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2010%20Buena%20Park/Anaheim-SantaAna-GardenGrove-20121006-03003.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2010%20Buena%20Park/Anaheim-SantaAna-GardenGrove-20121006-03004.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My helper friend Rich, who is a fellow wine lover, had brought me this wonderful bottle of wine, so when the show started to slow down around 3pm, we opened the wine, and with a few others helping, quickly finished!</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2010%20Buena%20Park/Anaheim-SantaAna-GardenGrove-20121006-02996.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And another dealer friend at the show brought me this very tasty bottle of Argentina wine.</p><p><img src="http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq139/thepennylady/2012%2010%20Buena%20Park/Anaheim-SantaAna-GardenGrove-20121006-02997.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>We also had a little “excitement” during the show – a thief was caught and arrested!&nbsp; Apparently, this guy who got caught stealing today was suspected of stealing from the same dealer in Long Beach and another dealer at the small Anaheim show, but the dealers weren’t couldn’t prove it.&nbsp; At the Anaheim show when this guy showed up, someone notified the show promoter Jerry (who is a retired Long Beach cop and also owns and runs the Anaheim show) about the &quot;possible&quot; thief and pointed him out to Jerry at the Anaheim show. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So Jerry who is also in charge of security at the Buena Park show saw the same guy enter the show (he was very distinctive looking - big, lots of arm tats, and a ZZ Top style beard) and had two other security guards watch him. Sure enough, the guards witnessed him steal from the same dealer as the Long Beach show. They had their cell phone cameras ready and actually videotaped him stealing. Jerry called the cops, the dealer signed the complaint, the thief was walked through the show in handcuffs while all the dealers cheered, placed in a police car, taken to the station, processed and released.&nbsp; I understand he had pocketed over $600 worth of coins from the dealer&#039;s notebooks that were sitting on the table and tried to buy his way out of it but, thankfully, the dealer refused his offer and pressed charges.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So that’s it for today.&nbsp; I’m headed back tomorrow morning and will update this report tomorrow evening![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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