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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2616662, member: 71723&quot;]We arrived, again through Port security, to complete our mission. We had exhibits to grade and for novice graders, a comment on every element of every scoresheet is REQUIRED. They need insight on what went into your scoring thinking. This presented a little challenge for me, because my handwriting never did fully get back to acceptable after 2009 and I was still a little extra shaky from my medical underdosing. I hadn&#039;t gotten my right hand back to normal yet. But I forced myself to write slow enough to maintain legibility.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cripes! Writing out comments on judging sheets can be time-consuming! By the time we got down to serious writing and evaluating, it was 11AM. I pulled up a chair, because some of the exhibits were loaded with small text. A judge has to read EVERY word of every exhibit. No skimming. To save you the agony, exhibit A-1 was interesting numismatic material displayed with all the overall visual appeal of a dirty Q-Tip. A-2 was a classically designed exhibit with material much lower in condition than the exhibitor himself said was readily available, and A-3 was loaded with factually inaccurate statements and was easily seen as a 2015 exhibit that was quickly thrown back in cases to harvest another award. Yecchh! The top three winners at Red Rose Coin Club&#039;s local show would have put all three of these in 4th place at best. And this was the F. U. stinkin&#039; N.?!?! Sooooo, I had a lot to write about. The deadline to return our scoring sheets was 4PM, and I finished around 2:30, so I did a victory lap around the bourse. Nick continued to write.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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