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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 8632163, member: 81887&quot;]I attended the Fall 2022 Baltimore Whitman show today.&nbsp; Usually I go on the Friday, but this year I have work obligations on Friday so I attended today (Thursday, opening day) instead.&nbsp; I arrived about 12:30 (half an hour after the doors opened to the general public) and began my rounds.&nbsp; As always, I focused on the Ancients and World dealers.&nbsp; This year I decided to set a fixed budget for the show, so I brought along just a certain amount of cash and left my checkbook at home.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t end up with any truly spectacular coins, but I did get a number of pleasant and interesting pieces, including quite a few that will require further research on my part.&nbsp; The show seemed fairly busy to me, with most dealers having at least one customer at any given time.&nbsp; Random overheard bit of conversation: &quot;The Iranians aren&#039;t buying anything anymore.&quot;&nbsp; Make of that what you will. I ended my show experience at 3:30, when my cash ran out, having spent 3 hours on the bourse floor with just one brief bathroom break.&nbsp; I took some quick photos of my haul- the quality of photos isn&#039;t very good, I promise better photos when I do my full write-ups at some later time.</p><p><br /></p><p>First are two coin purchases from Aristos Numismatics (a Kushano-Sasanian coin and one from the Yausheya Republic) and four coins from Allen G. Berman: two Sasanian silver drachms, a 17th century Spanish piece, and a small Parthian bronze featuring a grain ear on the reverse.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1516537[/ATTACH]</p><p>Next up are five coins from Tamco Numismatics: A very thick Mughal bronze of Akbar, silver coin of the Palas in northern India, a very small early Kushan(?) bronze, another Kushano Sasanian, and finally a silver hemidrachm of Elymais.&nbsp; (Most coins of Elymais are bronze, but early coins from the kingdom were often of good silver.)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1516538[/ATTACH]</p><p>Next, a bunch of bronzes picked from large piles.&nbsp; Top are four Kushan AE tetradrachms.&nbsp; The bottom has two square AE Indo-Greeks; the round coin on the bottom seems to be Indo-Parthian.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1516539[/ATTACH]</p><p>I also picked up a few cheap moderns.&nbsp; I got a couple of Canadian large cents as part of my super-secret side project, plus a large (37 mm) 10 tornesi from the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies that I had to get just for its heft.&nbsp; I picked up a few coins in a pick bin for $3 each: A British East Africa with hole in the middle, late Chinese Imperial&nbsp; struck 10 cash, a Canadian token from Prince Edward Island, and what seems to be invasion money for occupied Poland in WWI:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1516540[/ATTACH]</p><p>My last purchase of the day was a book from Charles Davis numismatic booksellers, DeMorgan&#039;s classic Manual de Numismatique Orientale.&nbsp; Here&#039;s the title page and a sample of the inside showing discussion of the coins of Queen Boran:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1516541[/ATTACH]</p><p>That&#039;s what I saw and bought at the Fall 2022 Baltimore Whitman show.&nbsp; Please post your own recaps and photos of the show, or any other comments or related stuff you want to.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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