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Re: Post something numismatic from your birth year

Just when I was starting to show gray hairs, the rest of you are showing me I'm still young!

Also for anyone that wants one... I'm starting to promote year set albums for the upcoming holiday season. Could be for yourself or a youngster you want to start in the hobby.

The_Dinosaur_Man

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Re: ANA back to Philly someday?

@messydesk said:
Philly is on the ANA's and many dealers' "never again" list after the union problems with the last one. GACC won't go there, either.

Actually, that's not true. 2012 was the union disaster. Whitman pulled out after that. Then there was a nationwide convention boycott, union rules were loosened, and the ANA went back in 2018 when the convention center had problems getting shows to come back.

The ANA is now, once again, on Philly's "never again list." Not the other way around.

Because Philly is once again a major convention town, and the ANA cannot meet its spending, hotel room night, and F&B requirements. Just like most other major convention sites. It's why Chicago is really Rosemont, not Chicago. And why the ANA hot spots are OKC, Pittsburgh and Rosemont.

It's fine. It is what it is. But we can't afford to have a convention at the place with the best convention food court in the world. So we go to a place with a gazillion hotel rooms, and restaurants, 5 minutes from a major international airport. It could be a lot worse.

NJCoin

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Re: Post something numismatic from your birth year

HoledandCreative

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Re: Seated dollar values getting…

When I was looking for a no motto and with motto type coin of the series, I bought a nice MS 63 and a nice MS 64, and forgot about the series. The additional tick mark or two on a 4 was so much less expensive than paying for a 5. That, and hearing a guy brag that on the 11th submission, he got one of these into a 5 holder convinced me it wasn't a good idea paying full freight for one.