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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Darkhorse, post: 1770364, member: 3454&quot;]I don&#039;t get a whole lot of time to check out the bourse floor at coin shows. I&#039;m usually pretty busy doing other things, but I can manage some time during my lunch break. But that&#039;s tough at a show like the ANA when there&#039;s just so much to see. What makes things tougher is that I have absolutely no focus in my coin collection, I just usually pick something that I think is really cool or means something to me (this suits me fine). This means I go into these things not knowing specifically what I want, I just go in hoping something will catch my eye. Sometimes something does, a lot of the time something does not. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I usually stop by Karl Stephens&#039; booth since he has neat stuff. I had been interested in a Bremerhaven commemorative, but I dithered since I already have a Bremen coin. Some of his Napoleonic medals were really neat, but I already had one of those. I glanced at some hammered coins, and something really caught my eye: A Henry VIII groat. What struck me most was the clarity of the portrait on it; nicely worn and the details very clear, nicely centered, no crazy doubling. I thought about what this coin had been through, and the history associated and I just had to have it. I think it&#039;s really freakin&#039; cool.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i40.tinypic.com/afd6c0.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://i39.tinypic.com/70ym4p.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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