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<p>[QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 3192115, member: 71723"]Friday morning started with a hearty but self-served, plastic utensils and styrofoam plate style breakfast, as had the previous day. "Maybe" scrambled eggs (certainly scrambled, maybe eggs) and sausage pucks. Clearly not Bob Evans'. The coffee was genuinely really good, as were the orange juice and the bagels, so all was not lost.</p><p><br /></p><p>The same three-mile drive to the Convention Center ensued, and the dealers were more vocal, literally, about being anxious to wheel and deal. The number of attendees looked good, but perhaps the buying was not brisk on Thursday. This was an earlier 10AM start, as opposed to the nooner the day before. I decided to start at the left side of the hall, as opposed to the right side like the previous day.</p><p><br /></p><p>There I encountered THE most aggressive signage offering "many items 50% off - ask me". Most of it was world material and all of it was well above what you might find in "book stock". These were in 2.5" x 2.5" non-vinyl flips with detailed info on the cards in the other half of the flip. This guy was as particular as I am. The first item that caught my eye was one of the nicer 1958 Canadian Silver Dollars (the British Columbia totem pole one) I have seen raw. I estimate it as a 65-66 coin, and I've looked at a bunch of them. I collect Canadian dollars and halves by type, and a nice raw '58 had evaded me. When the dealer knocked well over half off the label price, I looked over the stuff even more intently. Note: well over half the dealers were selling primarily raw coins - slabs were MAYBE 35-40% of the pieces in cases, if that. These are "collector dealers", not "investor dealers". Maybe it's a Pennsylvania fetish - most collectors I know locally PREFER raw coins. Anyway, I also snagged from this same dealer an 1891 British farthing in MS BR 60-something (62?, 63?) that was a big upgrade for the one in my set.</p><p><br /></p><p>After a few more stops for some exonumia items, including some transit tokens, I had only one "have to find" item on my list - an item to fill a hole in my Dansco 7070. I had been fixating on a 2-cent piece with a little genuine red remaining, but they were running too expensive for my tastes. My second obvious one was a really nice 3-cent silver, but they were not very easy to even find - at any price.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was about to admit defeat, I set my eyes on an 1843-O seated half that was kinda high F or kinda low VF with what one of our members calls the "circam" look - "circulated cameo". I looked it over in the 7th edition ANA grading guide, and technically, it's a F-15 with an obverse that's kinda VF-20ish. I paid $65 for it, and it's in the 7070 tonight.</p><p><br /></p><p>Day One at PAN is banquet day, along with exhibit judging day. But Day Two is "lecture day", and four top-notch presentations were on. One of the nation's finest EAC collectors, Ron Shintaku from California, gave a talk on 1793 copper coins - half cents and large cents. He has a full Sheldon variety set.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://pancoins.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/LECTURE_POSTER-834x1024.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the full run down. I was able to take in the first, third, and fourth talks. After Mr. Frost was finished, I retired to the hotel to choose someplace "bonus pointy" to have dinner. I gave up and noshed at the hotel's restaurant.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 3192115, member: 71723"]Friday morning started with a hearty but self-served, plastic utensils and styrofoam plate style breakfast, as had the previous day. "Maybe" scrambled eggs (certainly scrambled, maybe eggs) and sausage pucks. Clearly not Bob Evans'. The coffee was genuinely really good, as were the orange juice and the bagels, so all was not lost. The same three-mile drive to the Convention Center ensued, and the dealers were more vocal, literally, about being anxious to wheel and deal. The number of attendees looked good, but perhaps the buying was not brisk on Thursday. This was an earlier 10AM start, as opposed to the nooner the day before. I decided to start at the left side of the hall, as opposed to the right side like the previous day. There I encountered THE most aggressive signage offering "many items 50% off - ask me". Most of it was world material and all of it was well above what you might find in "book stock". These were in 2.5" x 2.5" non-vinyl flips with detailed info on the cards in the other half of the flip. This guy was as particular as I am. The first item that caught my eye was one of the nicer 1958 Canadian Silver Dollars (the British Columbia totem pole one) I have seen raw. I estimate it as a 65-66 coin, and I've looked at a bunch of them. I collect Canadian dollars and halves by type, and a nice raw '58 had evaded me. When the dealer knocked well over half off the label price, I looked over the stuff even more intently. Note: well over half the dealers were selling primarily raw coins - slabs were MAYBE 35-40% of the pieces in cases, if that. These are "collector dealers", not "investor dealers". Maybe it's a Pennsylvania fetish - most collectors I know locally PREFER raw coins. Anyway, I also snagged from this same dealer an 1891 British farthing in MS BR 60-something (62?, 63?) that was a big upgrade for the one in my set. After a few more stops for some exonumia items, including some transit tokens, I had only one "have to find" item on my list - an item to fill a hole in my Dansco 7070. I had been fixating on a 2-cent piece with a little genuine red remaining, but they were running too expensive for my tastes. My second obvious one was a really nice 3-cent silver, but they were not very easy to even find - at any price. When I was about to admit defeat, I set my eyes on an 1843-O seated half that was kinda high F or kinda low VF with what one of our members calls the "circam" look - "circulated cameo". I looked it over in the 7th edition ANA grading guide, and technically, it's a F-15 with an obverse that's kinda VF-20ish. I paid $65 for it, and it's in the 7070 tonight. Day One at PAN is banquet day, along with exhibit judging day. But Day Two is "lecture day", and four top-notch presentations were on. One of the nation's finest EAC collectors, Ron Shintaku from California, gave a talk on 1793 copper coins - half cents and large cents. He has a full Sheldon variety set. [IMG]https://pancoins.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/LECTURE_POSTER-834x1024.jpg[/IMG] Here is the full run down. I was able to take in the first, third, and fourth talks. After Mr. Frost was finished, I retired to the hotel to choose someplace "bonus pointy" to have dinner. I gave up and noshed at the hotel's restaurant.[/QUOTE]
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