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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1866068, member: 39&quot;]Don&#039;t ask me about slabs. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> PCGS and NGC had booths at the World Money Fair, but that&#039;s about all I know. What I did pick up was a free &quot;WMF 2014&quot; medal, for example, issued by the French Mint - the attached image is a quick&#039;n&#039;dirty cell phone pic only.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can also get all kinds of free gimmicks, such as &quot;golden&quot; Degussa ballpoint pens, coin shaped wine gums, etc. What I like is the &quot;passport&quot; for coins they have at the WMF - you can buy some card/sleeve (€10) and then pick up nice low value coins at the booths of 30 different participating mints. Initially this was done to attract kids, but it is interesting to see how many adult children do this too ...</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t usually go to the WMF, as Berlin is pretty far away from here (in fact, Amsterdam, Brussels and even Paris are closer to where I live <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ) but this year it all worked out. So partly I went for the overall experience, party to meet fellow collectors (from a German coin forum), and partly for the coins. I collect mostly modern Western European and North American coins from roughly the past 50 years. Still a terribly wide &quot;field&quot;, so I have been narrowing it down.</p><p><br /></p><p>Will I go there next year? Most of the coins I buy are cheap, and I get them online or at shows which are closer to home. But the combination (World Money Fair plus the city plus the folks) sure was nice. Next year (30 Jan - 1 Feb 2015) the guest of honor will be the Royal Australian Mint by the way.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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