YOU are Invited: The First Official CoinTalk Meet and Greet at FUN 2020

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I've missed you 3 times..........will try again.

 

I be tried to stop by a couple of times and you were either not there or you were swamped and I didn't want to interrupt.

 

Time to check out the exhibits. Of course, @johnmilton has one of the best!

 

Oh my..... I knew @johnmilton had some spectacular early half dimes. Are all those displays his?? That is just jaw dropping!

 

Fantastic to meet and chat with the other members. Halfcent1793 wowed me with his "pocket coin". Great show - I'm writing this after having returned home from Friday's activities and I'm beat. Wife doesn't understand why I don't want to go dancing. Tomorrow is another day on the bourse-I've made it past every table, sat in three auctions, bought or won pretties, talked to old friends and made new ones. And, to cap it all off, I don't have to get on I-4 to get home to Kissimmee (that's south of Orlando).

Back to the show on Saturday for the EAC Region 4 meeting and more bourse-crawling.

 

Ngc cocktail hour with Mark Salzberg.

 

Buy the case not the coin. (bills) @Randy Abercrombie

 

Did you attend any of the Mecum Car Auction that is currently running in Kissimmee? ~ Chris

 

worse. I84 from Hartford to Danbury any time but especially rush hour in the snow. And 495 or 95/128 suck 99% of the time. 95 across the GW or the Jersey turnpike right up there. 78 through west jersey and East pa is just a blast in a snowstorm too

 

Damn. An 1802 in xf 45. That’s impressive

 

No, no, I don’t have an 1802 half dime. That is only a picture. I have all of the others.

The closest I ever got to buying an 1802 was six years ago when one was on the FUN bourse at $139,000. It was graded VF, but it had a mark on the reverse it I didn’t like. I have seen a couple of others offered, including the finest known (perhaps) at $350,000 or so. It also appeared in a major auction but was “bought in.”

 

Sorry I thought there was one in the pic. I know how incredibly rare they are. One of the few us coins that no uncirculated examples exist

 

Whoever is still at FUN....if anybody wants to do dinner (and maybe catch some of the NFL playoff game)...or just hang out for drinks or coffee or wings....PM me or post a location and time here.

Thanks !!

 

I have it on good authority that @messydesk tied for first place in the NGC grading contest.

 

I'll be hanging out at the Rosen Centre bar if anyone is up for it.

 

Ooh, curious. I know he's exceptionally good.

Have they released the rest of the results?

 

I.would have liked to have seen that contest......congrats Messy !!!!

 

Since its over, from my recollection, here's a sample:

2 Very high grade Morgans (at least one was a CC, as I recall)
1 California Commem (looked cleaned to me)
1 modern gold Iranian proof DCAM commem
1 Massachusetts Cent https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1788-cent-massachusetts-period-bn/948 (this one was tough because it looked like it might be AU, but I wasn't familiar with the series enough to know if it was strike)
1 Civil War token? I think that's what it was. It was small cent sized, but it had a really cool shattered die
1 South African coin (I think it was a PL issue), but it had crazy toning. I waffled on whether the toning was legit or not, but decided AT
A couple of circulated Seated coins (half and dime, I think?)


All told, there were 15 coins and you had 10 minutes to grade them. I finished my first pass in about 8, so I had time to go back and check my work. The real challenge for me was twofold - there was a crazy wide variety of material, some of it I was distinctly unfamiliar with. And I'm not used to having the time pressure! At home, I can take all afternoon to research and examine a coin before I post a grade!