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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 5406160, member: 110226&quot;]Back in the early 80s when I was making my conversion from US coinage to world and ancients, more the former than the latter at the time, I used to make trips to Carmel-by-the-Sea and visit Blackburn and Blackburn.&nbsp; Hal Blackburn was quite a character who among other things had an old-fashion slot machine in his back office.</p><p><br /></p><p>B&amp;B had an incredible stock of all sorts of coins and other items, a veritable warehouse in that shop off a Carmel side street.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So I would take some of my Morgan dollars there and work out a transaction for some nice world coins with Hal. I&#039;m sure he was laughing all the way to the bank, but I didn&#039;t care; I was more than happy to buy coins that appeal to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one the coins purchased from B&amp;B.&nbsp; Hal, by the way, died the early 90s.&nbsp; His son Dean took over the business, but it was never the same, and I don&#039;t think it is around any longer.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1233910[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The one dealer that I have been purchasing ancients from, much more in the earlier years than now, is Harlan Berk, who still going strong.</p><p><br /></p><p>And, as far as the few artifacts that I have, they are from disparate sources.&nbsp; I wish I had the wherewithal to visit Royal-Athena Galleries when I was living in NYC in 1975-76, but those were lean times for me (recent liberal arts college grad in the midst of a lingering recession), so I had different priorities back then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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