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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 603723, member: 16948&quot;]Hey guys, it was great reading this string and all your adventures at the show and in Hollywood!&nbsp; I too am &quot;old-lady tired&quot; from the show, the partying, etc.&nbsp; Then yesterday was my dad&#039;s birthday so my family and I drove to Oxnard (1 hour north of LA) and spent the day there.&nbsp; So I&#039;m just now catching up on some rest and the forum posts. </p><p><br /></p><p>It was sure fun meeting Snaz and Magman, what nice, friendly and savvy young boys you are!&nbsp; (Sorry, I sound like a mom, don&#039;t I.)&nbsp; I had already met and done business with Boss and Acanthite in the past, but it was sure great seeing them again.&nbsp; Boss really impressed me with his knowledge of chemicals and lacquered coins, and it&#039;s always a pleasure seeing collectors with young families who still manage to collect coins in spite of all the hardships that come with raising young children - way to go Boss!&nbsp; And Acanthite is such a quiet and meticulous collector - I&#039;ll bet he has a pretty amazing collection!</p><p><br /></p><p>Besides meeting all the young CoinTalkers and playing poker with them (photos to come!), the highlight of my show was showing off all of my slabbed private collection Indian and Lincoln cents for the first time - I brought them to the show to give to Todd to photograph.&nbsp; He also was returning the first group of my coins that he had finished photographing.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never brought out my personal collection before because, honestly, it really didn&#039;t matter to me what others might think of my coins because I collected particular coins to please me.&nbsp; But I have to say I sure got a kick out of seeing everyone oooh and awww over my own coins!&nbsp; I&#039;ll be sure to post some photos when I get them from Todd.</p><p><br /></p><p>Before I get to the poker game, I want to publicly thank Mark and AJ for treating us all (and I mean ALL - Rick, Karin, Tony, Magman, Boss, Acanthite, Snaz and me) to dinner at Rock Bottom before the big game - that was a real treat and a lot of fun, and very generous of Mark and AJ!&nbsp; Now the poker game - what a blast!&nbsp; First of all, AJ presented us all with a pair of Raymer eyeball shaded sunglasses! It was a hoot and everyone looked hilarious in them.&nbsp; Everyone bought in for $100 and we played $1-$2 limit Texas hold em.&nbsp; I have to say that, although Rick gave me a couple bad beats, I had the most fun messing with Mark (Mark, I hope you had as much fun beating me as I had going up against you!)&nbsp; And Acanthite was one of those very quiet unassuming poker players that stay under the radar and you take for granted - that is, until you see him rake in all your chips!&nbsp; And Magman was sort of that way too - very quiet with a sweet smile, especially when he turned over the winning hand.&nbsp; And good ol Snaz was very quick witted and outlasted Magman and Ancanthite, staying until the wee hours of the morning to play with us old folks.&nbsp; He was even kind enough to help poor bleery eyed AJ when it was his turn to deal.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As far as I can remember, we ended up playing til around 1:30 am and in the end, I think Brad did pretty well when he cashed out, and Mark, Rick and I also won a few bucks.&nbsp; Luckily, I had made prior arrangements to stay with Rick&#039;s assistant, Karin, at the B&amp;B so thank goodness I didn&#039;t have to make that hour drive home that night!&nbsp; I can tell you, however, this old lady was sure dragging on Saturday and when I got home from the show, I fell asleep at 8:00 pm!</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as the show goes, I was steadily busy with friends and customers at my table, but I think people are much more careful with what they buy now.&nbsp; My sales were not as strong as usual, but I did make some great purchases.&nbsp; I picked up some nice PCGS circulated Indian cents, a lot of nice raw high end Indian cents that I sent to PCGS for grading, and even received several nice coins on consignment from various customers.&nbsp; So even though I didn&#039;t sell as much as I usually do, I made up in being able to buy some nice coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any way, this was one of the more fun shows I&#039;ve attended - all thanks you great CoinTalk people!&nbsp; I look forward to being able to get together again - as AJ said, he and I will be at the Ontario show later this month, so I hope some or all of you can stop by our tables there, and perhaps have dinner together and play some more poker![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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