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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ElmerFusterpuck, post: 2060336, member: 19086&quot;]Got to Orlando on Wednesday and made our way to the Sonesta Suites on International Drive.&nbsp; My travel agent wife got us a great rate there, and we also found out it was very centrally located.&nbsp; Our rental car sat idle the whole time; we either walked to where we needed to go or took a shuttle.&nbsp; It was about a mile walk to the convention center, which is probably about the same distance if you parked by the north/south concourse buildings.&nbsp; Between other fun things (Universal Studios, putt-putt golf, happy hours), I attended the FUN show most of the day Thursday and a few hours on Saturday morning.&nbsp; Here is my take on the 2015 show, my second FUN:</p><p><br /></p><p>1)&nbsp; Thursday started out fairly crowded, and got to see the ribbon cutting to open the show, which was cool.&nbsp; The traffic seemed pretty steady the whole time on Thursday.&nbsp; Saturday appeared to be quite a bit lighter, but still steady.</p><p>2)&nbsp; My main search was for nice type coins, usually look for capped bust halves first, then seated halves, then toners, then large cents, then other stuff.&nbsp; First show in awhile I didn&#039;t pick up a single capped bust half.</p><p>3)&nbsp; Submitted a handful of raw coins to PCGS for grading, results will be in a future thread.</p><p>4)&nbsp; Picked up an auction win from Great Collections.</p><p>5)&nbsp; Got to talk for a bit with David Kahn, TPRC, Brian Cushing, Dennis King, and a few others during the show.</p><p>6)&nbsp; Visited the Paragon Numismatics table, where they had the &#039;comet&#039; and a blue-green monster Morgan on display.&nbsp; These coins belong near or at the top of the monster list IMHO.</p><p>7)&nbsp; Submitted a couple of bids in the Sheridan Downey auction, went 0 for 2.&nbsp; Quite a bit of nice stuff in that auction!</p><p>8)&nbsp; Visited with the U.S. Treasurer Rosa Rios for a bit; she was very personable and nice.</p><p>9)&nbsp; Panned for gold and managed to snag a couple of decent little gold nuggets.&nbsp; This is a neat part of FUN.</p><p>10) Found more coins for my collection on Saturday than I did on Friday, usually the first day is the most productive.&nbsp; So much stuff to go through.</p><p>11) Nice no-problem circulated seated halves were very scarce.&nbsp; Way too many blast-white dipped out VF&#039;s and XF&#039;s (slabbed and raw) for my liking, ended up with a total of zero there too.</p><p>12) Missed the PCGS luncheon and the Pawn Stars stuff.&nbsp; Would have liked to have been one for two here, you can guess which one.</p><p>13) Overall I had a blast, will most likely check out Tampa next year too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now for the pics...</p><p><br /></p><p>Opening day crowd waiting to get in:</p><p><img src="http://i679.photobucket.com/albums/vv159/ElmerFusterpuck/FUN%202015/IMG_2181_zps79e49165.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Rosa Rios speaking at the opening:</p><p><img src="http://i679.photobucket.com/albums/vv159/ElmerFusterpuck/FUN%202015/IMG_2188_zps99ee089a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Me and my wife with Rosa:</p><p><img src="http://i679.photobucket.com/albums/vv159/ElmerFusterpuck/FUN%202015/IMG_2203_zps4723ec31.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Rosa signed all these bills for us, any currency starting with 2009 on up has her signature:</p><p><img src="http://i679.photobucket.com/albums/vv159/ElmerFusterpuck/FUN%202015/IMG_2206_zps61a47fa9.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Morgan monsters at the Paragon table, my pictures don&#039;t do them justice:</p><p><img src="http://i679.photobucket.com/albums/vv159/ElmerFusterpuck/FUN%202015/IMG_2191_zpsec0ab140.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://i679.photobucket.com/albums/vv159/ElmerFusterpuck/FUN%202015/IMG_2190_zpsa8a91f15.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Now for my purchases:</p><p>Large cents from David Kahn, 1803 S-258 in PCGS VF-35, 1817 15 stars in PCGS XF-45:</p><p><img src="http://i679.photobucket.com/albums/vv159/ElmerFusterpuck/FUN%202015/IMG_1676_zps2a9d6019.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i679.photobucket.com/albums/vv159/ElmerFusterpuck/FUN%202015/IMG_1677_zps2faaaf64.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i679.photobucket.com/albums/vv159/ElmerFusterpuck/FUN%202015/IMG_1670_zps5486169d.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i679.photobucket.com/albums/vv159/ElmerFusterpuck/FUN%202015/IMG_1672_zpsa4bccdb2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Picked this Morgan up from Great Collections, 1881-S PCGS MS-65:</p><p><img src="http://i679.photobucket.com/albums/vv159/ElmerFusterpuck/FUN%202015/IMG_1665_zpsd705bbd5.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Picked up this neat endroll toner, PCGS MS-64 CAC:</p><p><img src="http://i679.photobucket.com/albums/vv159/ElmerFusterpuck/FUN%202015/IMG_1662_zps419bc5e4.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Blue Franklin, PCGS MS-66:</p><p><img src="http://i679.photobucket.com/albums/vv159/ElmerFusterpuck/FUN%202015/IMG_1667_zpsc88b0b75.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Last coin bought at the show from Dennis King, PCGS MS-68:</p><p><img src="http://i679.photobucket.com/albums/vv159/ElmerFusterpuck/FUN%202015/IMG_1659_zps8f491327.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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