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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 15052799, member: 1765&quot;]Got back from FUN this morning. The nice thing about a 6:00 am flight from Orlando to Chicago is that I still have a full day ahead of me. The not so nice thing is that I barely slept last night. Had a great time at the show. Arrived Thursday a little after noon and got to meet Steve Feiertag, who was exhibiting a neat &quot;CAC plus Eagle Eye&quot; Indian cent set, as he was having me shoot a bunch of coins from his type set. As others have said, the show was quite busy. He and I went to the PCGS Cocktail Party. Felt more like an airport lounge than anything else, but it was a nice 30 minute break from the show with nice snacks and an adult beverage and a commemorative slab. I could have made dinner of it were I not going out with some friends that night.</p><p><br /></p><p>Friday was also busy for me. Shout-out to Heritage for accommodating my desire to borrow the 1921-S Zerbe strike Morgan they&#039;re selling (along with a Heritage-issued body guard for the coin) so that I could take some pictures of the coin and also the diagnostics for the die pair so that I could properly document it and add it to the VAM catalog. One of my VAM friends travels with a stereoscope with camera on it, so I got some good pictures. This will be listed as VAM 35 and is awaiting being found as a normal business strike. It doesn&#039;t make any sense for the SF mint to strike 24 coins and then scrap the dies, so I&#039;m thinking there has to be some normal strikes from this die pair. I had about an hour to throw together a presentation about this coin for VAM Thing XX. Nice dinner with a group of about 25 people at Delmonico&#039;s that night. Biggest group we&#039;ve had by far, including some younger collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Saturday is typically more relaxing, but I was busier than expected. I had a chance to chat with John Dannreuther for a while, and he had a set of really nice half cent electrotypes show up at his table while I was there (1831, 36, 40-49, 52). He talked me into pulling the trigger on an MA-Shops coin I had bookmarked back when the exchange rate was better and the coin would have cost me $50 less. I consider that my 3rd FUN purchase, even though the coin won&#039;t arrive for a while. I&#039;ll probably post it on the Dark Side forum, although it&#039;s really a Gray Side coin.&nbsp; I finally got to meet LordMarcovan, who had me shoot the 1927-A 5 Reichsmark piece he showed earlier.&nbsp; I also ran into ldhair a few times during the show.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first two purchases? The first was another matte proof Lincoln from Angel Dee&#039;s. This time a 1912 in PR66BN. He had a PR65BN I briefly considered, but this coin was far nicer and is a better match for my other coins:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://varslab.com/misc/12pr1c-1588.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The second was a nice 1826 50c (O-112a) in AU55 from Northern Nevada Coin</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://varslab.com/misc/26o112a-8972.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I did the NGC grading contest again. Just missed top 10 this time, but I&#039;m going to say it&#039;s because NGC didn&#039;t grade at least one of the coins correctly. <img src="https://forums.collectors.com/resources/emoji/smile.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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