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Message:: [QUOTE="Arizona Jack, post: 344112, member: 9308"]Afternoon update, March 7th 3:00 pm Just arrived back home after a solid 5 hours on the floor.  Parking was easy, in the city garage 1 block from the show and no Barrio in sight, a mere $10 for a full day ( cheap for any downtown city on a work day ). I arrived at the Phoenix Convention Center at 9:45 am, a good 15 minutes early, but the doors were open and they let me in. I registered in and got a show ID and rejoined the ANA all at the same table near the doors, and said hi to some fellow Mesa Coin Club members, and watched some honorary plaque presentations, most notable was Anthony Swaitek, MR Commerative and an Icon in the hobby.  The show was big, largest show I have attended in quite some time, no charge to get in, a FREE show , and was well laid out with plenty of room to manuever. Well lit ( I'll get into the lighting later ) and bright and seemed like the place to be for a coin collecting fool such as myself. I was rearin to go. I did make out pretty good, spending every dime I had in about 2 hours...I could have bought a roll of SVDB's, 14-D's, 22 noD's, etc.....every table seemed to have 3 or 4 of each.....all slabbed in either PCGS or NGC plastic. My focus was on the sleeper dates. I was able to buy (13) real nice 1924-D's, including 2 sharp as a tack raw AU's and one in an ANACS AU-53 holder. The other ten are nice VF to XF coins. I picked up 3 XF/AU 1911-D's, 3 vf+ 1914-S's and some others.....I passed on every 31-S I saw.  If I were willing to pay for plastic, I could have bought alot more. I bought raw and used MY judgement and I think I came home better for it. I tried my best to buy a 1921-S but could not find any nice enough at the "right" price( maybe they were hidden by all the 1914-D's I saw) The problem was cleaned or overgrading. It's hard to bargain with a guy who has a AU 1931-S Lincoln in a flip marked MS-63.....or a VF-30 1912-S that the guy keeps quoting me XF "bid", that happened alot, lol. I do think I was early enough to pretty much "cherry" the floor, but it was plain and clear, Lincolns are hot. HOT. I paid well above CDN on many of the nicer coins, and was happy to do so. Overall, nice coins are bringing nice prices, but it was not impossible to spend money, just had to be picky. The floor lighting tricked me a cpl times. Not untill a closer look at lunch did I see the initials "MM" carved into the obverse of an XF/AU 1913-D that I THOUGHT I ripped for $25.....( who got ripped? ) Met with GDJMSP, JD White and The Cave Troll for lunch outside in the sun. We discussed photography and some of the storys TRoll was telling had us a laffin real good. Mark Feld was kind enough to show GD, JD and I some of the prettiest type coins I have ever seen. A full 20 coin slab box loaded with Proof this and Proof that, simply stunning. GDJMSP will back me up here......one of the nicest Mercs either of us have ever seen.....1945-S Micro S in a NGC MS-68 holder with toning that would bring a man to his knees....we talked about that coin for a while, I will remember it fondly. It is perfectly obvious that Mr Feld knows his business and knows it well. A true gentleman in all respects. Rick Snow was another highlight of my morning. I did not spend a dime at his table, but he sat with me and discussed the "cent" business one on one, and really opened my eyes alot to the intricasies (spelling?) of grading and slabbing copper.....I walked away smarter, THANKS Rick !! Sort of like a fan at Nascar or a kid at a Disney show, it was kinda neat spotting " Coin Celebritys" conducting business with millions of dollars on the table like I would search a roll of wheats.....pretty humbling I had to come home for more $$$, lol. I will return tommorow and try it again. I missed a cpl goals, no type for my set, and no David Lange, but there are still 2 days of coin heaven left.[/QUOTE]

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