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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;silvercowboy72, post: 1191414, member: 28647&quot;]Sorry for the delay in posting this, but life has been very busy with work and family.&nbsp; I have been wanting to post these thoughts since April.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I am fairly new to coin collecting.&nbsp; I live in Joppa which is just North of Baltimore.&nbsp; I have a friend who lives in Canton(downtown Baltimore), and I always meet him at his house and we go together to the Whitman Show when it comes to town.&nbsp; He is very new to this hobby as well.&nbsp; Both of us grew up collecting baseball and football cards, and have only recently found coin collecting.&nbsp; I am 38, and he is 41.&nbsp; Both of us are primarily interested in Morgan Silver Dollars.&nbsp; I have been working on a collection of Philadephia Mint Morgans.&nbsp; I have also purchased a couple of ASE&#039;s and found Wheaties over this past Winter when Silver prices spiked.&nbsp; He collects Morgans as well, but likes Indian Head Cents too.&nbsp; He likes Carson City Morgans.&nbsp; I work for a bank and normally have to work Thursday, Friday, and Saturday mornings.&nbsp; This means we always hit the show on Saturday afternoons.&nbsp; Over the last two years we have attended four or five of these shows.&nbsp; It is hard to pass these up when they come to your backyard!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This Saturday was the norm.&nbsp; I had to work in the morning, so I met my friend and his five year old son after work.&nbsp; We arrived at the Baltimore Convention Center around 2PM.&nbsp; This is the first time we took him, and were unsure of how this would go over.&nbsp; Would he be bored, and would we be leaving fairly quick?&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The local Baltimore coin clubs man the doors.&nbsp; They always sell raffle tickets, so both of us purchased a couple to supprt the local clubs.&nbsp; My friend won a gold coin at the last November(2010) show.&nbsp; We did not have a winning ticket this time.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; My first observation was to survey the bourse floor and gage the crowd and dealers.&nbsp; As always on Saturday afternoons, I am amazed at the amount of dealers who have already packed it in.&nbsp; My work schedule does not permit me to arrive any sooner.&nbsp; I always have a list of dealers I want to check out.&nbsp; Normally two thirds of my list are still there, but less than half were there this time.&nbsp; I was a little dissapointed in this, but I can not tell someone how to run their own business.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I was able to acquire two new coins for my Philadelphia Mint Morgan collection.&nbsp; I picked up a PCGS 1881 MS64 and a PCGS 1902 MS64.&nbsp; This show was when Silver was almost at its high, and I nearly paid full retail for both.&nbsp; The 1881 came from Pocket Change out of Pittsburgh, and the 1902 came from SMFM Investments out of New Hope, PA.&nbsp; I got a fair price for the first coin, but paid a little too much for the second.&nbsp; The 1902 had a CAC sticker on it, and I think I got a little too excited in wanting to add it to my collection.&nbsp; It is my first CAC coin.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My daughter just work from her nap, so I will continue this story this evening.&nbsp; Stay tuned.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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