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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;furryfrog02, post: 8280624, member: 41219&quot;]Today was my last day in uniform in the Navy after almost 20 years. Tomorrow,&nbsp; I start terminal leave until my official retirement date of 30 June. What better way to celebrate than to go to the Baltimore Whitman Coin Show amirite???</p><p><br /></p><p>Since it is a school day the kiddos couldn&#039;t accompany me which was a bit of a bummer but overall it wasn&#039;t too bad because there wasn&#039;t a lot there that they would&#039;ve had fun looking through. Almost no world bins and only 2 tables that had ancients in my price range that you could look through.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first table that had out in the open coins I could look at (and afford) was Tiber Numismatics. The gentleman behind the table was really friendly and just loved talking history. He was with another guy who was astounded that you could get a coin of Alexander III for just $20. He also pulled out a coin that was counterstamped by Cleopatra VII though I didn&#039;t get a good look at it. I perused the provincials and Greeks and picked out 3 coins. 1 provincial of Caracalla, a Seleucid bottle cap coin (my first), and a Greek that I &quot;think&quot; may be from Rhodes. $50 well spent. The man offered to ID them for me but I told him that was ok and that it was half the fun! </p><p><br /></p><p>I wandered around the rest of the tables and looked at all the really pretty really expensive coins before making may way to the table of my LCS who had a couple of boxes of ancients last show that I pulled a nice Judea Capta of Titus from for $5. </p><p><br /></p><p>He had the same 2 boxes and I went through them and pulled out a few more interesting coins. Nothing spectacular. I came away with 7 coins from him for the princely sum of $25.</p><p><br /></p><p>All totaled, I spent $75 on 10 coins, or $7.50/coin.&nbsp; I think I did alright <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Heck, I even managed to sell some extra West Point quarters I had so I ended up making money on the trip <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the part you guys really want to see, the coins:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1462385[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1462386[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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