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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 24649558, member: 105571&quot;]I just spent the last three days (T, F &amp; S) at FUN in Orlando.&nbsp; Among shopping, rubber-necking, and chatting, I also manned our local club table (Central Florida Coin Club).&nbsp; The tables were sold out according to my Mark I eyeball and also as heard from a FUN Director.&nbsp; Lots of retail traffic including through Saturday until about 1 or 2.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many dealers told me they were having a good to great show.&nbsp; I did hear a couple of dealers complain about not having a lot of material offered to them for sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found asking prices high for choice material and even lesser stuff.&nbsp; Generic pre-33 gold seemed to be reasonable (I bought a 1908 NM Double Eagle in PCGS MS-65 and a 1908-D Indian Eagle in PCGS AU-55).&nbsp; Overall, I picked up seven nice coins but I left with money still in my pocket.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been getting pickier.&nbsp; I&#039;ll post photos on the US Coin Forum later in the week after they&#039;re photographed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Saw four, count &#039;em, four 1796 quarters from VF-Details to AU-58.&nbsp; And a couple of 1796 dimes,&nbsp;&nbsp; Handled several very high-priced and high-quality coins including proof LS and Trade dollars.&nbsp; One dealer had a complete set of Trade Dollars in high AU and MS grades that he was offering as a set sale only.&nbsp; We had a couple of nice conversations about his strategy for selling or auctioning this set.</p><p><br /></p><p>As usual, tons of Morgans and bullion on offer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ancients and World was pretty well represented although I still cannot find any hammered pre-Norman silver penneys at these shows.</p><p><br /></p><p>The show was back in the West Concourse and it was cold in there!&nbsp; Pretty much everybody shivered through the show.</p><p><br /></p><p>The four TPGs were all there and did good business.&nbsp; The line for PCGS was always heavy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Had a nice chat with [USER=101855]@johnmilton[/USER] and, as always, he taught me a thing or two.</p><p><br /></p><p>Showed up for the EAC Club Meeting at 9 on Saturday morning and while the room was labeled and set up for the meeting, Tom Reynolds and I were the only two to show up so we had our own meeting.&nbsp; I&#039;d never spoken with Tom before and found him a nice conversationalist and obviously hugely knowledgeable on early copper.</p><p><br /></p><p>Attended a nice presentation on So-Called Dollars by Tony Swicer.&nbsp; I knew almost nothing about these medals so came away with more than I started with.&nbsp; Jeff&nbsp; Shevlin was also there promoting his new book on So-Called Dollars so I bought the deluxe edition with an actual Columbian Exposition (I think, it has to be shipped to me) SCD embedded in the cover.&nbsp; Several other people bought the standard edition so the publication looks like it will be popular.</p><p><br /></p><p>Last January, the food vendors started taking only credit cards, no cash.&nbsp; This Summer FUN, the parking attendants were only taking credit cards ($10 parking for the FUN show, a discount of $10 from normal) and it was seamless if not quite as fast as cash.&nbsp; So, if your going to go to the next FUN in January, be prepared to pay for parking with a CC.</p><p><br /></p><p>Weather was good if steamy and we got the typical Florida thunderstorm at 3 on Saturday but it didn&#039;t last long.</p><p><br /></p><p>Slept in this morning &#039;cause I was tired.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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