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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 8390133, member: 27832&quot;]I scooted over for the annual <a href="https://www.raleighcoinclub.org/ourShow/currentYear.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.raleighcoinclub.org/ourShow/currentYear.html" rel="nofollow">Raleigh Money Expo</a> earlier today. Didn&#039;t spend as long as usual, but some quick notes:</p><p><br /></p><p>The show was VERY well-populated with dealers. It&#039;s in a fairly large space, and usually there are some empty tables around the back edges, but this time it was practically wall-to-wall full. That was good to see.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were quite a few attendees as well -- definitely more than last year.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were a couple of faces I recognized on the &quot;In Memoriam&quot; table. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>There were some <i>excellent</i> educational displays. A display on the Gobrecht eagle included an 1836 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-cent_billon" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-cent_billon" rel="nofollow">2-cent billon pattern</a> (I&#039;d never heard of this!), as well as a large-size cent pattern and several half-dollar patterns. I spent a good bit of time at that one. There was also a nice educational-note display, with some detailed explanations of their rise and fall, and a very thorough fractional-note display. I&#039;m not normally a note person, but these displays caught and held my interest.</p><p><br /></p><p>I didn&#039;t check the going rates for junk silver or gold, but the &quot;we&#039;re buying&quot; signs seemed a bit larger and more numerous than previous years.</p><p><br /></p><p>ANACS was there as usual, along with the Barber Collector&#039;s Society, but I didn&#039;t stop to interact with either.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anybody else go?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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