Charmy's SACRAMENTO ANA Show Report with Lots of

Pictures... (I accidentally posted before I finished the title!

My son Erik and I left early Wednesday morning and 7 hours later arrived at the convention center in Sacramento. The loading dock is quite small and not multi-vehicle friendly, but we all managed to unload for set up in good time.

After set up, the ANA had a wine tasting dinner at the Old Sugar Mill, so several of us boarded the buses for the short ride across town along side the beautiful Sacramento River to this ex-sugar mill/now tasty winery!

My "little boy" on the bus!







Everyone bellying up to the wine bar!




Here are photos of the wine tasting dinner including photos of several ANA folks.



Larry


David


Tiffany


And I just had to take this photo of Kay in her very soft fur jacket



Jeff and his wife dined with us at our table (Jeff is a member of the Sacramento Coin Club)



Andy (Mr. Eureka)


This was a tee-shirt they were selling at the winery (he he)


We took a brief tour of the sugar warehouse. They said the building was constructed in Utah in the early 1900's and then taken apart and moved to its current location in the 1930's.



And this is the extremely rare and very expensive 1804 $1 in a specially made museum holder that Larry was showing us at dinner!






Bourse floor on Thursday


PCGS folks


Ernie received this wonderful award for all his selfless contributions to the world of coins!



Logan and his beautiful daughter at VAMS & More


Me and Logan


More usual suspects!


My neighbor across the aisle Ian Russell


Me in my St. Patrick's Day Green!

 

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Did ya slip that 1804 into your pocket as you walked away?

 

Rofl at merc crazy, Very nice thanks for sharing, did you pick up anything while you were there?

 

don't spend any of those spensive penny's by accident . Great pics. Thanks.

 

Hey, Charmy. You're already having a great time and I haven't even gotten there yet. I'll be there on Friday and maybe Saturday if I get a dog or not. I'm looking to get a dog on Saturday afternoon. That comes first.

Bruce

 

Wish I was there.... Thanks for sharing.

 

Wow! That's cool Charmy, my coin club ppl are in one of the pics!! Wish I could have been there but some of us actually have to work for a living. Oh man! I'll pay for that one somewhere down the road!!:devil: :hail: Run into you soon!!

 

Hey ! Man, that is so cool !

 

Great report as always -- photos really make the report. See you in Baltimore!

 

Hey Charmy...

You just proved a picture is worth a thousand words.

Thanks for sharing.

Clinker

 

Today (Friday) has been quite busy so far so I'm just now getting to post my after-hours activities from last night! We started with some of my own very yummy Sangiovese at the show, then went over to the Citizen Hotel for their free wine happy hour. We stopped by the park where they had live music and vendors but they wanted $25 per person just to get in so we went over to McCormick & Schmidts for some wonderful rib-eye where I also had my first Irish car bomb of the night! We then ended up at a really fun pub on J and 15th called The Torch. They had a live band that played a lot of jazz/rhythm & blues - not exactly Irish style music, but great just the same! We danced a lot, had some more Irish car bombs as well as several pints of Guinness. My son even asked me to dance, which was really special since he's moving to Italy next week and I am sad that I won't have him around for quite a while, not to mention his birthday is TODAY!

I have to say that I haven't been out dancing in quite a while, and this place was a ton of fun! We finally called it quits around 11:30, headed back to the hotel, crawled into bed, and quickly fell fast asleep! Here are several photos I took at the pub - enjoy!









And here's a view of downtown Sacramento from my hotel window - it's a very pretty city, especially at night!



Oh, and I did pick up quite a few more nice coins: some very pretty half cents, 1909-S Indian MS65 RB, a gorgeous MS64 1867 with a bold RPD "1" and a STUNING MS66 1860 Indian cent.

 

Yesterday ended up being very busy for us! I bought several more nice coins, even bought and quickly sold a beautiful 1909-S Indian MS65 RB. Also quickly sold an MS63 RB 1877 Indian that I had just picked up from NGC. I've had Todd image most of my newps, including several beautiful new Conder tokens I just got back from NGC - can't wait to post them! Also bought another gorgeously toned proof which I think will photograph beautifully.

Friday night is our last night here in Sacramento, and it was also Erik's birthday! So we celebrated his birthday with several friends at a really super wonderful restaurant called Ella's.








We even ran into several other show people dining at the restaurant, including some familiar ANA folks!


Here's a pretty view of Sacramento from our room this morning.


After dinner, Erik went back to the room and watched a movie since it seems I have worn him out with all our late-night "sight seeing"! So several of us met at the Capitol Casino for some after-dinner poker. There were probably about 5-6 dealers who were there, I ended up at a table with a couple of them and quickly and accidentally beat them out of a big pot! Rick was there at another table and he had the high hand of the evening (straight flush) for a nice $200 bonus!

Now it's back to the show, looking forward to seeing more forum members and doing some nice Saturday collector business! Then we'll pack up and head back home - That long 7-hour drive will be a bear, but it will be good to see my hubby and sleep back in my own bed tonight!

 

Looks like a pretty quiet city.

 

Man wish I could of been there! Coins an rock it doesn't get any better than this!

 

Great update! Geez, I live in Sac and you've done more in downtown Sac in the past 3 days than I've done in the past 3 years

I was at the show Thursday, but 1 day was not enough. I scored many cool coins/supplies at great prices. I was extremely happy...I can't wait until another large show comes back again.

-LTB

 

A couple forum members stopped by, MrAlexanderB, Fretboard, and a few others - it was great seeing them!

So today has been very busy, especially crowded with scouts and kids doing the treasure trivia hunt. Sales have been steady, as has my buying, but the best thing today was that I bought two BEAUTIFUL original RED Indian cents: 1909-S NGC MS65 RD and 1908-S PCGS MS65 RD! Of course, Todd is photographing them for me. Speaking of Todd, I finally got to meet his better half - what a very nice pretty lady - I certainly see what Todd sees in her but not sure about vice versa (jk!)

Here are photos of the bourse floor, some of the exhibits, and one of the many dozens of kids that stopped by my table today....







This is the Dino-Lite booth right behind me - they are wonderful neighbors and have a great microscope camera!


We'll be packing up shortly and heading home, it's really been a great show and exceeded my expectations! So I have a week off until I head for the Baltimore show the end of the month. Stay tuned for that report!!!

 

Is an "Irish Car Bomb" what we old guys called a "Black & Tan" ?

 

Sacramentos ANA money show

I screded up on Friday but made it on Saturday. One of my first stops was a Charmys incredible booth of coins that I just couldn't pass up. I had forgotten my want list, so I had to go by memory. That's not a plus. I ended up buying an 1897 MS64 IHC with many colors amid a gunmetal Libertty on the obverse. A very nice coin. Fret board showed up as I was sitting there examining the coins. He & I had met before but I was sure it was him when he introduced himself to Charmy.

I ended up at Rick Snows' booth where I met Charmy son, who's about to go and LIVE in Italy. Not vist or vacation, live. We spoke a bit about CoinTalkl, his mom, and moving to Italy. I recalled how I had my chance when I was a teenager but that was snatched away from me unfairly. Life can be unfair,but you shrug it off and go on.
Rich showed me 2 coins that I wanted to buy but I kept my head on and didn't buy them, for the time being.

I did buy a 1 oz silver Canadian Wolf and an Austrailian Kooky, both 2011.

It was a good show for me. I could have & wanted to buy more.

Bruce

 

Very beautiful 1804 Dollar, it must have been a PRIVILEGE to be able to handle such a famous and rare coin like that. A piece like that would probably fetch about $5 Mill? Great report, and nice pickups on those Indians!

 

Can't wait to see pics of that new '08-S that Charmy got

Looks like lots of fun was had at the ANA show. I went Thursday and Friday and had some fun too, saw lots of folks from the forums and saw tons of cool coins. The museum exhibits were really neat too. Tried to get a few pics with my camera phone which didn't turn out that great, but here they are anyways:

1804 Dollar:


1913 Nickel:


Brasher Doubloon:


Old CA National bank notes:


Autographs of every US president from Washington to Carter with coins from the dates of each President's birth, death and coins from the time of each administration, very cool:





There were also a bunch of cool collectors exhibits that I didn't get pics of, the lighting in that section wasn't that great anyways unfortunately. One had all of the different eagles used on the classic commemoratives that I really liked. Another exhibit was several cases and had all coins from all over the world with different types of cats on them. Something for everyone I guess!