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Message:: [QUOTE="900fine, post: 571440, member: 6036"]7pm Thursday - The Reception ! OK... so the morning Grading Seminar had this scholarship Young Numismatist student. The kind of guy that talks for 10 seconds and you realize the dude is brilliant. For real. The teacher said "WE GOT A KID IN HERE !!!" and he blushed red as a radish. So I approached him and his dad at The Reception and told him "Some of us won't call you a "kid". I'll call you a Young Man !" This, of course, ingratiated me to his dad, so they accepted my offer to join us for dinner. Free food ! Free wine ! Free beer ! By gawd, there's gonna BE some deals now, pal ! Anyway, I chat up the YN for about 10 minutes. The youngster has memorized every die variety of all half cents and large cents... well over 350 die marriages. He is wheelin' and dealin' with the big boys... and won't won't be old enough for a driver's license for almost 3 years ! So I figure "This dude is way too smart for me. I'll chat up his dad." Turns out his dad taught history at Brown and Johns Hopkins. Now I got TWO geniuses on my hands ! We chatted for over two hours. Awesome time.[/QUOTE]