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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;midas1, post: 1403887, member: 21309&quot;]Went to the show hoping to buy some NGC ER 25th anniversary coins to fill out some sets.&nbsp;&nbsp; Couldn&#039;t find a dealer selling these coins individually.&nbsp; </p><p>Spent a good bit of time talking with BEP&nbsp; Michael Bean, retired plate printer and Bill Story, retired printing specialist.&nbsp; They were using a spider </p><p>press to print some old ABNCo images, including cards signed by Mike that could not be purchased and had to be won at the twice daily raffle.</p><p>I didn&#039;t win a card, but the raffle numbers before me and after me did win.</p><p>I bought twelve cards and one large 8&quot;x10&quot;.&nbsp; When I go home later today I&#039;ll try to upload images of these cards.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mike Bean is wearing the shop apron.&nbsp;&nbsp; He told me the BEP had a single lathe that could engrave plates used to create the beautiful lathe borders used old currency and stock certificates.</p><p>The lathe operator left the BEP nobody else knew how to use it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]169335.vB[/ATTACH]&nbsp; [ATTACH]169336.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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