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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8167349, member: 110350&quot;]To the extent I was able to see*, and taking into account that I only gave an in-depth look to four tables, I saw a great deal of &quot;good stuff&quot; laid out in the dealers&#039; trays. (All those big bronzes and gold coins I couldn&#039;t afford!) In addition to the fact that most of them also had boxes and boxes of longtime inventory behind their tables.&nbsp; Always worth looking at as well, because you never know what you might come across.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a question for those who might know something about the subject, as to whether something that happened is a coincidence. I mentioned that before going to the show yesterday I stopped by my bank to withdraw some cash. No harm in saying that the amount was $1,000; I withdrew it at a teller&#039;s window because it was too much for an ATM and I don&#039;t like to use ATMs for large amounts anyway.&nbsp; This morning, I received a text message, purportedly from my bank, stating that &quot;unusual activity&quot; had been detected and that my account had therefore been locked. Complete with a link purportedly to a security page, asking for me to sign in with my password to restore the account. I&#039;m sure it was a phishing attack of some kind, because my bank never contacts me by text for that sort of thing, and accessing my account on my desktop showed that nothing had changed, let alone that my account had been locked. So of course I didn&#039;t input my password at the texted link. But how would a phisher have known that I took money out from my account yesterday? Is it possible that this was a coincidence?</p><p><br /></p><p>*My &quot;new&quot; left eye has cleared up enough, and is certainly good enough at reading distance (for which it was intended), that it was perfectly suited, with the occasional aid of a magnifying glass, to examining coins. In fact, I claimed to one dealer that the surgeon had installed a special, electronically-adjustable lens for the specific purpose of examining coins, and that if one listened carefully, one could hear it zoom in and out. So that&#039;s my &quot;coin eye&quot; from now on.&nbsp; For greater distances I was still somewhat lost, because for whatever reason I couldn&#039;t see too well with my right eye, even with my old glasses, so it was impossible for me to identify dealers by the signs on the walls behind their tables! I had to sort of guess by using the map. The new left eye is fine for reading or sitting at a desktop, but beyond two or three feet isn&#039;t much use. I&#039;m supposed to meet with an optometrist this coming week to discuss what kind of eyeglasses I&#039;ll need going forward.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope my next Covid test this coming Wednesday is negative, so I can go ahead with surgery on the other eye -- which I believe will be set more to distance vision, although I&#039;ll still need glasses for driving, etc. -- on Jan. 24th.&nbsp; Everyone was wearing masks yesterday, and had to show proof of vaccination to get in, and it wasn&#039;t overly crowded, so I&#039;m not <u>too</u> worried about having caught the virus yesterday. Fingers crossed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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