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<p>[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 4595518, member: 44316"]I reread the pages about your coin show experiences. They are excellent. Your honesty and point-of-view in evaluating the experience is well worth reading. I would love to hear more-recent coin-show experiences from anyone who can write, like you do, about his own thoughts when walking a show floor. It is one thing to say "I bought this coin from dealer X." That is not very illuminating. It is entirely another to say "I wanted to find coins under $x and I went in hoping to find <this> but didn't so I bought <this> because it was in a junk box at half price and <this> because the dealer was nice and I took a lot of his time." </p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose we won't have anyone reporting on new coin show experiences for quite some time. The story is not the same when someone writes "I clicked on this on-line and bought it." I want some drama! Someone tell us a coin-purchase story with some drama![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 4595518, member: 44316"]I reread the pages about your coin show experiences. They are excellent. Your honesty and point-of-view in evaluating the experience is well worth reading. I would love to hear more-recent coin-show experiences from anyone who can write, like you do, about his own thoughts when walking a show floor. It is one thing to say "I bought this coin from dealer X." That is not very illuminating. It is entirely another to say "I wanted to find coins under $x and I went in hoping to find <this> but didn't so I bought <this> because it was in a junk box at half price and <this> because the dealer was nice and I took a lot of his time." I suppose we won't have anyone reporting on new coin show experiences for quite some time. The story is not the same when someone writes "I clicked on this on-line and bought it." I want some drama! Someone tell us a coin-purchase story with some drama![/QUOTE]
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