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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Beefer518, post: 2891727, member: 87737&quot;]Well, it went pretty ok.</p><p><br /></p><p>I got there about 1.5 hours before they closed (had kid stuff to deal with in the AM), and about 3/4 of the dealers had already left.</p><p><br /></p><p>First table at the door was a very nice dealer. He told me had been trying to give away a silver dollar to someone, but nobody could answer his trivia question. &quot;How many pennies has the US Mint produced in it&#039;s 225 year history?&quot; At first, I made a face, and made that &quot;p-shaw&quot; sound cartoon characters make, but then I realized what he was asking, and said - &quot;Zero&quot;. He swore I was the first person to get it right today, including the dealers he asked. Next thing, he&#039;s handing me an 1885 (P) Morgan (VF I&#039;d say)! That paid for my gas and tolls, so I was happy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Got to talking to him, and asked if he was looking for anything, and showed him what I brought. He liked my 2016-W Burnished $50 Eagle, and felt my asking price was fair, and next thing I knew, I had a nice chunk of cash in my hand (with a small profit).</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, he didn&#039;t have any coins I was there for (trying to finish my Early Silver Commemorative set), and because it was getting late, I politely shook his hand, and excused myself to hit the rest of the dealers.</p><p><br /></p><p>With crisp bills in my hand, I went hunting for any of my 9 missing CSC (Commemorative Silver Coins, I think).</p><p><br /></p><p>There were 3 dealers that had coins I needed. One was the Antietam, but it was a raw lesser grade (about high VF to Low XF), marked as AU. While the price was fair, and correct for what I felt it graded, I passed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next up was a PCGS Hawaiian, graded MS Details - Cleaned. While cleaned slabbed coins are not what I am looking for for my set, the Hawaiian would be the exception due to price. Trouble was, the reverse looked like it was cleaned in a metal-working shop in a high school. It was sad to see what some people do in attempts to &#039;improve&#039; a coin. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> It didn&#039;t help that this dealer was one of the aforementioned &quot;I&#039;m going to poo-poo on all your coins you want to sell or trade&quot; types, and not to mentioned he kept trying to tell me how impossible it is to find a coin as old as the Hawaiian (1928) that hasn&#039;t been cleaned. I was embarrassed for him to say the least.</p><p><br /></p><p>Last was the dealer tucked away in the corner, packing up his stuff. Nice guy, showed me his wares (even though he had packed most of it up already), and I ended up buying his NGC 1928 Hawaiian. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now, if you&#039;re wanting to know the grade, and see the coin, you have to check out my other thread - <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/gtg-1928-hawaiian-commemorative.305121/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/gtg-1928-hawaiian-commemorative.305121/">GTG: 1928 Hawaiian Commemorative</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Overall, I was happy with the day, and now own something I didn&#039;t expect to when I woke up![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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