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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2732238, member: 19463&quot;]I had a conversation with a man at the show that asked me if I found what I was looking for.&nbsp; The fact is that I never seem to find what I am looking or but I always find something that I would have been looking for if I had known it existed.&nbsp; US collectors go to a show looking for a 1938S nickel in AU or better and compare the three that they find at the show at different dealers.&nbsp; I bought nothing that I had in mind because to some degree anyway because I don&#039;t realistically expect to find something specific.&nbsp; If impulse buying is defined as non-premeditated purchasing, I am guilty at every show I attend.&nbsp; At this show, I asked the dealer with the Otho if he still had it and ended up buying it but the rest were impulses.&nbsp; I did not see a single coin that tempted me in my prime areas of interest (Eastern Septimius, technical oddities).&nbsp; I turned down a Pescennius Niger with a reverse I really would like because it was not up to my standards (scary, what?).&nbsp; Two of my purchases were coins that I did not know existed.&nbsp; It is the only way I know to shop at a show.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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