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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mackat, post: 2654723, member: 45768&quot;]Today I went the Long Beach Expo, and of course I had to get a few things while I was there! It was the first time I&#039;d ever been to a coin show, and it was definitely worth it and very fun!</p><p><br /></p><p>The first thing I got was a 1944-P 25 cents from the Netherlands. It was in a 1/2 off bin, with a price tag of $3, and it immediately caught my eye. I already have one of these, but it&#039;s blast-white compared to the gentle toning of this one. I went to pay for it, and the girl insisted that what was obviously (to me) written &quot;$3-&quot; was actually &quot;$5&quot;. She said she&#039;d take $2 for it, and that was that <img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170217/8939da5463942d662ff1586f5efe604e.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170217/34e6ad0d2eacb636437a43c4e63ea893.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The next coin I got is a 1913 1000 réis from Brazil. The toning is very pretty, and I didn&#039;t yet have an older Brazilian coin in good condition. Something that caught my eye is that, while Brazil in contemporary Portuguese is spelled &quot;Brasil&quot;, it&#039;s written &quot;Brazil&quot; on this particular coin. Even before 1913, most Brazilian coins that I&#039;ve seen say &quot;Brasil&quot;, so I think it&#039;s simply because the spelling of the language wasn&#039;t as standardized at the time. <img src="http://i.imgur.com/nBNEGQX.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/QDhfqA5.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The third coin is my favorite of today&#039;s acquisitions. It&#039;s a 1939 &quot;ABC&quot; peso from Cuba. These are notoriously hard to find on the internet, since eBay does not allow listings of Cuban coins - even though this particular one was minted in Philadelphia. I was on a mission to find one at the show today. It definitely took some searching, as the first two I found were quite out of my price range, and the third one was reasonable yet had a large nick on one of the edges. This one was exactly what I was looking for, and I managed to get it for a reasonable price! I think it&#039;s one of the nicest looking coins I&#039;ve seen; the simple yet elegant Art Deco design looks very nice on silver. <img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170217/ab6f4078e4ca8071f4211640c9dd3a88.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170217/211de3af33fa4f53a2d932dc107653c3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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