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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;akeady, post: 4542666, member: 83175&quot;]Probably &quot;Coins and Medals&quot;, run by Emil Szauer - just off O&#039;Connell St.&nbsp;&nbsp; We have an annual Emil Szauer Memorial Lecture at the Numismatic Society of Ireland, where he was a founder member.&nbsp;&nbsp; Sadly, there are no real coin shops in Dublin today - Emil Szauer passed away about 20 years ago.&nbsp;&nbsp; Tony Schormann, who had a small shop selling some modern world coins and proofs in the George&#039;s Arcade died recently - I&#039;m not sure if his shop will reopen after the current virus-related closures.&nbsp;&nbsp; In fact, the &quot;Coin and Medals&quot; premises hosted a coin shop until a few years back, but they moved out of the city centre some time back.&nbsp;&nbsp; The only ancient coins I ever bought in a shop in Dublin were a couple of sestertii from a French antiques dealer who had a few coins in a cabinet</p><p><br /></p><p>Every September, we have a &quot;show and tell&quot; night to mark the resumption of the NSI meetings and one year a member brought his medal notebook to show and read from.&nbsp;&nbsp; The member is an accomplished artist who remains active at ninety years of age and has designed a number of Irish circulating and NCLT coins - including the &quot;Antarctic Explorers&quot; coins, the £1 circulating coin and the 1988 Millennium 50p (Dublin&#039;s Millennium - Galway had a Quincentennial, Cork an &quot;800&quot;, so Dublin had to outdo them and found some reference to Dublin doing something in 988).&nbsp;&nbsp; Anyway, his medal notebook had sketches of medals he&#039;d designed or bought and also notes from when he&#039;d bought the medals.&nbsp;&nbsp; The price, the haggling, who was in the shop at the time, what they spoke about, and so on.&nbsp;&nbsp; A world far removed from the sniping and clicking of today!</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, to some extent, without shops, at least we have the societies and forums like this for some community - collecting as a solitary exercise isn&#039;t so interesting!</p><p><br /></p><p>ATB,</p><p>Aidan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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