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A raw XF45 1863 from the Reeded Edge.

@Raufus said:
I wonder how many will be sold at the show.

Yeah, me too. My best guess is 500-1000.

A VF20 1901-S with interesting toning.

So far - for me - it's been a good-to-great show.

The special show releases have gotten good traffic. "Secret hint" - the mint booth has a coin dispenser all the way to the left with the new Stacey Park Milbern Women's quarter. Put a dollar in, get 4 shiny new coins.

Dealer reports are mixed. Some did exceptionally well during the Monday Dealer Day and Tuesday morning. Some were quite disappointed at the limited public attendance on Tuesday afternoon (really, it's a TUESDAY and most of your customers are working??).

One friend has only sold three coins, which he probably could have sold without attending. But he's a real niche dealer, and well, it's not toned Morgans, so... plus he admitted he's in the black for the show on just those three sales.

Met up with several friends, although the big do is tomorrow night.

Found a couple of other crazy cat people (Friday is the day for my "If you don't talk to your cat about catnip, who will?" shirt.)

And I filled a difficult hole, something just niche enough and modest enough in cost that nobody ever brings it to shows. Except I found a dealer with FIVE in 2x2s.

My turn at our hosts' grading challenge is tomorrow - expect I'll bomb it as usual - so when they post the scores...

It was a great day for me. I ran into several old friends that I never see at the FUN show in January. The highlight was getting to chat with Mark Feld after all these years.

I spent the day just walking and learning the show and the area. I was impressed with all the security officers in place. It looked to me that there was a steady pace of collectors walking the isles.

Great Collections had a large table at the show. I was able to chat with Ian for a few. GC has been a great help to me in my mission to reduce the size of my collection.

I found this 1909 last week with my metal detector making it my most beautiful half dollar.

I guess I started this as a "poll" last year... I'd forgotten about that... Also, the last "three to go" (Fugio, 1795 Half, and $3 Gold) are rounding out my Box of 20... at least for the moment

I'm getting back to work and another hiatus from collecting until next summer but I do have these three on multiple watchlists...

I wonder if the waiting room will be up for these.

It wasn't for the gold sac.