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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 578308, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Late Comments</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I am the guy front viewer&#039;s left.&nbsp; Mesa is front far right.&nbsp; Next to me in the boonie hat is Noost, if I am right.&nbsp; Who&#039;s everyone else?</p><p><br /></p><p>I am sorry that I do not visit here often enough to stay in the loop.&nbsp; If Arizona Jack had not seen my nametag -- MSNS Webmaster / MIKE/ Mike Marotta -- and said &quot;Hi&quot; I would have missed this.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My camera did not work because it was full.&nbsp; See some of those snapshots on the MSNS website <a href="http://www.michigancoinclub.org" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.michigancoinclub.org" rel="nofollow">www.michigancoinclub.org</a> by clicking on Spring 2009 Convention Highlights.</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought silver.&nbsp; At PHIL AFTOOR&#039;s table, there was a bargain bin washtub of world crowns.&nbsp; I found two nice 19th century pieces, a 1900 Hungarian 5 Korona&nbsp; and an 1856 France 5 Franc, both in VG/Fine but with honest wear and nice, original surfaces.&nbsp; I bought 12 pieces in all, but the rest were moderns.&nbsp; For me, of those, the coolest were the Egyptian 1 pound and 50 piasters (both crowns; NCLT silvers) commemorating the Aswan Dam project.&nbsp; (For me, numismatics is about capitalism, so, while those were state projects, they were cool engineering that delivered electricity.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also found bargains with DANIEL&#039;S COINS AND CURRENCY.&nbsp; Daniel is a new dealer, but he traced his great-grandfather&#039;s coin shop Eagle Coins in Detroit 1910-1950.&nbsp; His story is on the MSNS Website in the Articles Archive.</p><p><br /></p><p>I spent a lot of time with the exhibits.&nbsp; You learn a lot that way.&nbsp; You can read books and I do and I recommend them highly, but nothing beats seeing the material.&nbsp; Former MSNS President Chuck Fenwick displayed FRN Spider Press and Souvenir work from ANA Conventions.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>MSNS has a major effort on to bring in members.&nbsp; For your $15, you get your choice of a Krause book, typically a $30 value.&nbsp; The award-winning MichMatist costs us $18 per member per year to mail out.&nbsp; Those expenses are why we place a lot of effort on the conventions.&nbsp; We have the Fall show to ourselves, but the Spring show is often head-to-head with someone else and this time it was CINC, the Chicago show.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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