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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hiddendragon, post: 25337703, member: 25270&quot;]Today I went to the Central States show, which conveniently is located practically in my backyard. Like most shows, it leans heavily toward U.S. coins but there were a few dealers who specialize in foreign and a few other U.S. dealers who had some foreign on display. Most of the tables I didn&#039;t more than glance at because it was just slabbed high end coins and that&#039;s not the section of the pool that I swim in. I ended up buying from five or six dealers. I was on a half day from work so I had to get going or I&#039;m sure I would have bought more, especially since I was about halfway through a well-stocked 25 cent foreign bin when I decided I really needed to call it quits. </p><p><br /></p><p>Every year I debate whether I should go to this show because I know it&#039;s mostly U.S. and I&#039;m afraid it will be a waste of time, but whenever I go I always find something. </p><p><br /></p><p>Most of what I got wouldn&#039;t wow you because it&#039;s fairly normal stuff, but it&#039;s coins that I can flip for a profit on eBay. Here are a few more interesting ones that I&#039;m keeping for myself. </p><p><br /></p><p>The first is an Irish halfpenny from between 1685 and 1688.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1620429[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This was the most expensive coin I bought. It might not look like much but it&#039;s a 1767 Danish West Indies 12 skilling. I didn&#039;t even know the Danish West Indies made any coins this old and this sort of thing is my happy place.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1620430[/ATTACH] </p><p>1777 Milan half soldo. I don&#039;t know if it&#039;s particularly valuable but I don&#039;t have one.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1620431[/ATTACH] </p><p>1816 Papal States Quattrino. Another one I didn&#039;t have, and it was pretty cheap.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1620432[/ATTACH] </p><p>1921 Eisenach Germany 1 mark porcelain notgeld with Martin Luther.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1620433[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>There was one table with a lot of Cuban stuff (I think they were from Miami). I bought two Cuban pesos (I later realized I already have the 1953) and also four paper bills from Cuba. Since you can&#039;t buy Cuban stuff on eBay these are things I never see for sale.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1620434[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1620435[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally there&#039;s a Nevada centennial medal. No big deal but I just liked how it looked at I think it was $3 so why not? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1620436[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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