The Baltimore Show - Nada on Saturday!

7Jaguars

Well I dropped off about 25 total coins at the TPGs including a monster drop-off at hosts that included:

Great Britain 1928 Shilling - Record Proof Strike
GB 1930 Shilling - Record Proof Strike*
GB. 1931 Shilling - Record Proof Strike*
GB. 1932 Shilling - Record Proof Strike*
GB 1934 Shilling - Record Proof Strike*
GB 1936 Shilling - Record Proof Strike
GB 1944(E) Shilling - Specimen Strike
GB 1944(S) Shilling - Specimen Strike
GB 1957(S) Sailing - Record Proof Strike
GB 1937 1/2 Crown - Proof Strike (BUT, appears to be Deep Cameo)

*. - these are all ex-Norweb

Mexico 1997 Libertad Onza - looks to be at least "67"
Mexico 1998 Libertad Onza - looks to be at least "67"

The latter two are from getting a Libertad (or two) per year in the 80s and 90s at the Baltimore Show and had since new & these I handpicked with care at the time.

Anyway, the show today was nearly empty of dealers with over 2/3 gone and NOBODY at all at the Whitman Table. I dropped my coins and talked with a fellow collector & then went home. I hated the alternate Hall from usual as there was an enormous BookFair at the usual Convention Site where there were more librarian types than you could shake a stick at.

Sorry, CK as I meant to tell you I was going but assumed you had gone on Thursday or Friday...

coinkat

@7Jaguars

I attended earlier and submitted to our host as well- nothing as interesting as Proof/Specimen Shillings. Best of luck with the results.

As noted in other posts in connection with the show, the location was in a different Hall. The real change was the registration process which involves technology- the staff was helpful. In hindsight, my early arrival was a blessing so I could register without creating a longer line. I don't want to complain about a new direction, but registering in the past never seemed to be time consuming or problematic. There is much work that goes into a show of this size and hopefully the venue will remain in Baltimore.

There were decent coins to look at... even at all price levels. The show had a crowd but it is difficult to measure given the location. The Hall utilized has been used before- perhaps 3-4 times over the past few decades. I found afew minor items- nothing in the OMG range. Part of the fun of going to a large show is to look for Medals that one may not otherwise see. I did chat with afew dealers... seems Latin American coinage remains in the spotlight.

ChopmarkedTrades

The show had decent attendance, but it seemed like fully half the dealers had cleared out or were in the process of doing so by Friday mid-afternoon, which isn't out of line for the Whitman show; Saturday is usually near dead.