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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;muhfff, post: 3347008, member: 71559&quot;]As promised few posts earlier, my first impressions.</p><p>The WMF Berlin&#039;19 was the first large coin show I have visited. Of course I have been on numerous small local coin shows, but never on big one. And it was huge (although, to be honest, I expected even bigger one).</p><p><br /></p><p>I was able to participate two days, Friday afternoon and full day on Saturday. I didn&#039;t know how much time would it take to go through everything, so I spent the first afternoon only to get the rough idea what&#039;s on sale, what are the price ranges and where should I spend my time on the next day. So it took me only two hours to visit all the booths and tables. I reserved second day for &quot;digging&quot; - I went through most of the albums, cabinets, jars, boxes, bins, etc. So, long story short - now it took over 5 hours to visit all the selected booths and tables. It was probably not the best strategy, I saw numerous empty slots in albums and probably missed some purchase oportunities, but doesn&#039;t matter - I can be smarter next time.</p><p>To my total surprise, on the second day I discovered, that on the first day I had missed one entire hall! There were no coins, there were coin making equipment, but boy, that was interesting! I was able to see inside the minting machines, I was able to see how the multicolor coins and medals are made, there were planchet polishing tools, etc. Engineer&#039;s and coin nerd&#039;s heaven!</p><p><br /></p><p>So, did I get anything? I&#039;m happy to say yes. I got bunch of pens, few candies, 17 coins and 3 medals (all medals were freebies, so thank you Lithuanian Mint, Monnaie de Paris and Morlock). Out of these 17 coins, only 3 to 6 are actually the ones which go to my main collection (Estonian and Tsarist era Russian coins), others were just something I liked. I actually planned to spend much more (I collected money for WMF to be well funded <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />), but the competition on the stuff I like is very tough, its hard to get something new at reasonable price. So I&#039;m happy with the results!</p><p><br /></p><p>The only downside with the WMF was, that I was so concentrated on coins, that I basically forgot to drink anything, was totally dehydrated and ended up with headache on both days (or maybe it was the shine of the gold which blinded me and gave me migrene? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />).</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, some of the stuff I got:</p><p>Morlock medal</p><p>[ATTACH=full]886255[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]886257[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Estonia 5 marka 1922</p><p>[ATTACH=full]886258[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]886260[/ATTACH] </p><p>Soviet Russia 1 rouble 1921</p><p>[ATTACH=full]886263[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]886264[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And junk-bin find. Apparently Hungary 5/10 krajczar 1882</p><p>[ATTACH=full]886261[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]886262[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>PS! The good news are, that my coin overdose is over, I already browsed the ebay and scored![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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