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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ksparrow, post: 7954973, member: 7638&quot;]The show began on Friday but I was working all day, so showed up a little after 10 this morning when it opened. The show is held in the Acca Temple ballroom which is a very open venue with lots of room to move around and allowing for good ventilation. The Richmond Coin Club puts on the show twice a year and they do an excellent job. They have a scavenger hunt for kids, and hourly drawings for prizes ( 6 tickets for 5$). The Shriners sell hamburgers, hot dogs, and sandwiches on site, but there are many good places to eat nearby.</p><p>I am happy to report that it was BUSY. There were 1 or more people at just about every table, all morning, generating a healthy buzz. Given the good ventilation, high ceilings, my N95 mask and 3 doses of Pfizer on board, I felt pretty safe. I will note that masks were worn by about 30% of those attending, though.</p><p>I did not assess buy/sell prices for bullion coins (sorry) but people selling those seemed pretty busy. Stopped by to say hi to Rob and Casey Catron (Coins Make Cents) from York, Pa, and picked up a few toned Roosies, which they know I like. Meandered over to a gent from Va. Beach who is at every show; he has a lot of Morgans and Peace that don&#039;t interest me all that much, but he had just purchased a Morgan collection and 1 raw coin caught my eye.</p><p>For some time I have wanted a well circulated 78-CC, but I have always been clobbered in bidding for nice examples online. He had this coin though, at a reasonable price, and it&#039;s only off by 1 year.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1378817[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1378818[/ATTACH] </p><p>Honest wear and a few dings and nicks. Looks like the regular MM, not that &quot;capped die&quot; thing.</p><p>Spent some time talking with a dealer who was telling me how hard it was to find decent sales material ( he sells mostly choice circulated seated and barber coins, which always seem to be in demand) and how he had been driving all over the place to meet other dealers the past year. He used to deal a lot of CWT&#039;s but had sold most of them off; I spotted this little guy in a corner of his case and a price was quickly agreed on:</p><p>This little piggy went to market ( and was never seen again)[ATTACH=full]1378821[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1378822[/ATTACH] </p><p>Unc with a tiny spot of green on the rev I will need to monitor.</p><p>Next to him was a dealer with a lot of binders; including one with CWT&#039;s and HTT&#039;s. I haven&#039;t looked through a binder in a long time so this was fun.</p><p>ended up with this HTT from Buffalo NY (HT212, Low 324 R2) featuring a padlock and anvil ; and a storecard for Gustavus Lindenmueller (1863) a little rough around the edges but pretty nice central strike and some mint red peeking out. Every beer drinker/coin collector should have one.[ATTACH=full]1378823[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1378824[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1378827[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1378828[/ATTACH] </p><p>There was a fellow selling his small but select collection that I recalled from the last show that I attended about 2 years ago; he had a nice PR64cam &#039;74 seated half, with attractive toning, but his ask was way over price guide; I decided I needed to do more research. He had just sold a 5$ Dahlonega piece and I&#039;m sorry I didn&#039;t have a chance to see it. He also had a Bechtler dollar (cleaned).</p><p>I ended up, as I usually do, at the Reeded Edge table, at the back of the room on a sort of elevated dais; you have to climb the mountain to get to them, as it were. Robbie and Rob always bring some mouth watering coins and my largest purchase is usually from them ; today would be no exception. ....</p><p>Rob had just finished selling one of the gold Kennedy&#039;s ( the ones that caused such a ruckus at Rosemont a few years ago) to a fellow who kept peeling off 100$s from a wad in his pocket-- when I noticed a couple of coins in a case that I just had to see up close, coins I had never had a chance to hold or examine before. First:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1378831[/ATTACH] </p><p>AU55, CAC, with virtually no marks and surfaces that didn&#039;t show any visible wear; just a dream of a coin. and the other one:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1378836[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>XF40, no bean, but a beautiful original coin. apparently the owner is working on a set of key dates and traded this in for a higher graded one.</p><p>Rob generously offered to sell me either coin but considering my retirement prospects and the likely spousal reaction I politely declined. However, as I scanned their other cases, something the size of my middle fingernail caught my eye and wouldn&#039;t let go. I already have a couple of these in raw AU and well worn circ, but this thing was a little blazer and I just had to have it. A price was quickly arrived at and a check written (no wad of Benjamins) and I slipped it into my pocket. Just a few marks shy of a 65, I think, as the luster just swirls. (reached my limit for photo posting, so will put images in next post). </p><p>With that, I was pretty well tapped, but happy to have made it to a show for the first time since 2019, even with a minigreenhouse N 95 on my face, happy to see some old friends and pick up some nice coins, and to see that coin collecting is alive and well, at least in my little neck o&#039; the woods. Have a nice weekend.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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