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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 2364486, member: 57463&quot;]Dallas, March 1-5, 2016.&nbsp; I am attending the 3rd, 4th, and 5th.&nbsp; This is from my article about the show on the ANA website under Community/Forums/ANA Conventions.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was my first convention since Pittsburgh 2004. Before that, I made six in ten years.&nbsp; So, I look at this two ways: an insider and an outsider. It was nice to see friends. But I have been away for a while, and I understand that if I were here for the first time, it would be overwhelming. </p><p><br /></p><p>There was no way to find what I was looking for, except to walk up and down the aisles looking at hundreds of dealers. The Show Guide did not identify specialties.&nbsp; Finally, I just starting asking people I knew who they knew. </p><p><br /></p><p>If I did not know anyone I would be lost.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I met someone who was. Having paid his $15 parking, he took one look at the bourse floor from outside the hall - I don&#039;t think that he bought his $8 entry; maybe he did - and he left. He had no desire to walk into such a chaos.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The upside for me was working as an Exhibit Judge. I spent the better part of the day carefully reading displays about the art and science of the forms and uses of money.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I also found two dealers that I can work with tomorrow on a project. I bought the new book on Netherlands Gold Ducts (reviewed here on CoinTalk.) It is a nice book. But before I give it any stronger reviews than I already have, I want to test it on the floor against actual coins. I found two dealers with Netherlands gold ducats from the 16th through 19th centuries.&nbsp; I will meet with them on the floor first thing tomorrow.</p><p><br /></p><p>And, although I am not a collector, I did find a couple of historical items for myself. One was a little 6-krajczar billon coin, struck for the Hungarian revolution of 1848-1849. The other was a little dinar of Maximilian II 1586 Kremnica Mint. All together I spent $25 on the pair.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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