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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 24565933, member: 31533&quot;]Well, I did the talk. And I am not the best speaker by far. But at least this time, even though it seemed (and was) less &#039;prepared&#039; I think I was a bit happier with not just reading off something I wrote. And I think a lot of the people enjoyed seeing some of the coins I took with me. I passed around the 2bu gold/silver Japanese coin I got from Lord Marcovan (part of the talk portion about collecting Japanese coins now) and my not quite complete set of Icelandic Kingdom coins (no proofs), as well as two Civil war tokens and 7 Middle Ages back to Philip I coin I have and a bracelet (holed coins) that my grandmother brought from Brazil to the US back in the mid 1920&#039;s when she emigrated here from there. They are Brazillian Rials from that time period. The bracelet no longer had any of the connectors (those went by the wayside in the late 60s by me) but I restrung them with thread to show how they did fit together.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also handed out (free for the taking) some older Civil War Token journals, a bunch of relatively recent Thailand and Hong Kong coins I had, and I also gifted a brand new young numismatist at the show a book by Rulau on Hard Times Tokens. I simply asked that he read it and learn about them and maybe give an &#039;educational program&#039; next year on it. I hope he does do that because if he does, our coin club will give him an ASE as well as others learning a bit about them as well as him exploring something he might not have picked on his own.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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