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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 26741728, member: 81887&quot;]I had not been planning to go to the spring Whitman Coin Expo in Baltimore (I usually only attend the fall show), but I noticed that I had a) fewer dollars in my bank account that I would prefer, and b) some bullion-value US silver coins that I was willing to part with, given the recent massive jump in silver prices.&nbsp; And if I was going to be at a coin show, surely it wouldn&#039;t hurt to at least look at a few inexpensive coins too... </p><p><br /></p><p>So I attended the show on opening day, yesterday (Thursday, March 5, 2026).&nbsp; The show was held in Halls F and G of the Convention center, rather than the larger Halls A and B where the fall show is usually held.&nbsp; I heard that the room assignment was a last-minute change, and after hiking a very long distance from the Convention Center entrance, up and down escalators, to a final descent into what looked vaguely like we weren&#039;t supposed to be there, I easily believe it.&nbsp; But once I was registered and inside the bourse, it looked very familiar, if a bit smaller than the fall show set-up.&nbsp; I was surprised how active it was for a Thursday afternoon show- plenty of collectors strolling the floor, most dealers had more than one customer at a time.&nbsp; I shopped my silver around, focusing on dealers with &quot;we buy silver&quot; or similar signs, and was able to sell my stash.&nbsp; I then spent the next couple of hours happily browsing in the &quot;ancient and world coins&quot; section.&nbsp; Allen Berman was animated and friendly as always, though he had few of the coins I usually seek and I only ended up buying one coin from him.&nbsp; I spent quite a while at the Educational Coin Company table, digging through their bulk lots in search of treasure while talking to the dealers and to some fellow collectors.&nbsp; I also spotted a big wooden box of world coins at $2 a pop at a dealer called Transition Metals LLC, and patiently waited my turn to dig through the treasure.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have any spectacular finds, but ended up taking home many interesting pieces, some of which will require more research, and also managed to take home most of the cash I had made selling my silver.&nbsp; So, here are the coins I bought.&nbsp; First, my one coin from Allen Berman, a bronze of Hetoum II from Cilician Armenia, and three Parthian silver drachms from Educational Coin Company that had interesting mintmarks.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1707531[/ATTACH] </p><p>Next, my other Educational Coin Company purchases,&nbsp; These ended up being three pairs where the two coins were from the same group, but have definite differences in design/legend.&nbsp; Left to right: the ancient kingdom of Lichhavi in Nepal, Shahis of the Indian subcontinent, and the Kuninda kingdom of India:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1707532[/ATTACH] </p><p>And finally, my world coin copper blowout from Transition Metals LLC.&nbsp; This group features large bronzes from Italy, Portugal, France, and Japan, a coin from Japanese-colonial Korea (much scarcer than the Japanese coins it resembles), British North Borneo, British India, medieval Sri Lanka, Nepal, Tibet, Song Dynasty China, Bhutan, and finally a small, very thin 1/12 anna of the British East India Company. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1707533[/ATTACH] </p><p>All in all, a good show, I increased my cash supply and also got some new coins to enjoy.&nbsp; Let me know what you think about the show, my coins, or whatever else.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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