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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ElmerFusterpuck, post: 735469, member: 19086&quot;]This post got zero responses on the PCGS forum, maybe because I didn&#039;t have CAC in the title or all the coins were raw.&nbsp; Who knows?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Arial">My wife and I took a little weekend trip to Denver the past weekend, and of course one of our stops was the Denver Mint. We had booked our tour online and picked a 9 AM time for 11/09/09. What fun discovering that the 9 AM tour was cancelled when we made our way to the door! However, the guards there were accomodating and said we would get first crack at the 10 AM tour. After some latte and walking around, we made our way back there and found the guards and the guide waiting. Security there is pretty tight and you pretty much removed everything but your pants, but the guards were friendly about it. Our tour guide told a few cheesy jokes and talked to some of the kids there before he whisked us in for our tour. There was no regular production going on that day, but we did see some coins being struck for the mint sets, along with some employees putting the sets together. You really can&#039;t look at all the displays in the short time you get there, but it was a 30 minutes well spent (no pun intended). We also helped out the economy by patronizing the gift shop. </font></p><p><font face="Arial"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Arial">There actually was a guy out in front of the Mint selling some coins - didn&#039;t buy anything from him, but he did recommend that we head to Broadway and Alameda to find some decent coin shops. Rocky Mountain Coin was one of them and they had a nice inventory, mostly raw. I don&#039;t have the names of the other two places, but they also had some coins worth looking over too. I ended up with 3 pickups, methinks I did pretty good on the pictured halves.</font></p><p><font face="Arial"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Arial">If this is just a G, I&#039;ll take a few more. Not a major find, but it looked nice to me:</font></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i679.photobucket.com/albums/vv159/ElmerFusterpuck/IMG_0421.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i679.photobucket.com/albums/vv159/ElmerFusterpuck/IMG_0422.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Arial">This 1943 Walker is a blazer with no major hits in the fields. I think I did OK for $40</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i679.photobucket.com/albums/vv159/ElmerFusterpuck/IMG_0418.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i679.photobucket.com/albums/vv159/ElmerFusterpuck/IMG_0417.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Arial">This last one was my favorite, a very nice looking 1831 Capped Bust half. I paid low EF money for it, it looks a bit better to me and appears original in hand. Came from Rocky Mountain Coins.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i679.photobucket.com/albums/vv159/ElmerFusterpuck/IMG_0419.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i679.photobucket.com/albums/vv159/ElmerFusterpuck/IMG_0420.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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