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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2904561, member: 42773&quot;]I don’t often do show reports, but here’s a synopsis of my trip to Baltimore yesterday. The drive from Lancaster PA is about 1 1/2 hours, and the only remotely interesting thing about the trip is driving along the top of the Conowingo Dam, crossing the Susquehanna river, built in 1928...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://s8.postimg.org/y3oqg7d9x/conowingo_dam.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>For those of you that haven’t attended this show, it’s held at the Baltimore Convention Center, which has the rather bland architecture of so many convention centers throughout the US. (I call it Soviet-Bloc Chic.) It is quite nice inside, however, and perfect for the Whitman Expo.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://s8.postimg.org/hout3dv85/bcc.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I arrived at 9:30. Stacks&nbsp; was holding their usual lot viewings on the third floor, but there was nothing I was particularly interested in seeing - at least nothing that I was planning to bid on.</p><p><br /></p><p>When the bourse opened, I was unpleasantly surprised to find out that one of my favorite dealers and friends, Don Zauche, was ill and not attending. I wish him a speedy recovery. I spent the first hour looking at Mark Reid’s (Time Machine) trays. He has an enormous consignment of artifacts that’s going to take years to sell, but he usually has a coin or two that tickles my fancy.</p><p><br /></p><p>I came away with this electrum hekte of Mytilene, Lesbos, with heads of Kabeiri and Kore. This is solid, well-centered, and smooth VF example, the first hekte I’ve owned, and the first electrum coin I’ve owned...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://s8.postimg.org/3sr65qoid/hekte_hand_6.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I also found this denarius of Severus Alexander, Providentia reverse, with a very bold die-clashed reverse. The upside-down image of the reverse gives you an idea of how hard the empty dies were hit against each other, although I don&#039;t see any evidence of a clash on the obverse, so the reverse die must have clashed with a <i>different</i> obverse die...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://s8.postimg.org/wz3v2dq5x/sa_die_clash_k.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is a long report, so I’ll do in several posts rather than try your patience with a dissertation. (I already do that in my auctions.)&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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