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<< <i>if you like fancy colored and psychodelic coins, it should be an exceptionally great show >>
figures when I happen to skip this show.
note to all dealers at the Baltimore show with the colors: BRING THEM TO PORTLAND IN 2 WEEKS!
hmmmmm......Very few grumpy dealers? are you sure you are at a coin show?
Dan
About 12:15 Thursday afternoon the person "in charge" of the hall starting yelling and screaming over the loudspeaker at the top of his voice that anyone without a badge will be arrested!!!. He screamed that "friends and relatives" of dealers were entering the hall without badges and "insulting" the security personnel and that all people without badges had better leave the hall immediately or they would be arrested. This tirade went on for several minutes (I was worried because my badge had fallen off earlier and someone was kind enough to tell me before I walked away from it laying there on the floor - I immediately checked to be sure I still had it, fearing arrest, mugshots, interrigation and hard jail time in Baltimore
I don't know what triggered the incident and will not pass any judgement - I just hope there were no heart attacks. Also, vehicles will be towed and NO PASTING OF ANYTHING ON THE WALLS AND COLUMNs OF THE EXHIBIT HALL!!!.
Great report Pushkin. If I knew you were going I would have asked for your opinion on a couple of coins in Rick's inventory. Did you see the prices realized on the B & M IHCs? There didn't seem to be much internet activity and almost all the coins did not hit reserve in that phase of the auction.
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Now listen boy, I'm tryin' to teach you sumthin' . . . . that ain't an optical illusion, it only looks like an optical illusion.
My mind reader refuses to charge me....
<< <i>I always try to have at least one lunch at the Wharf Rat, directly across the street from the Baltimore Convention Center. GREAT food and a fantastic micro brewery.
Their "fish and chips" are as good as the best that I've had in London. The place is a little pricey, but worth it. For dessert, try their New York cheesecake - that and a few draft beers and you may not make it back across the street. The waitresses usually have great eye appeal - MS-66
I highly recommend the beer and food at the Wharf Rat.
I agree. I had the fish and chips too - excellent! You had room for dessert? Not me!
Are you done with the show?? Going back tomorrow??
<< <i>Are you done with the show?? Going back tomorrow?? >>
I think I'm done. Too long a drive and I don't have anything special to search for. Hope everyone who goes on Saturday has a great time!
If you want to see the patterns, go to indiancents.com and go to the FE page (at the bottom). Others are listed under proof IHC's.
Gordon Berg about having people arrested who tried to sneak into
the show without a dealer badge is in order.
We accommodate Auction Lot Viewing on Thursdays in a special
area of the bourse for collectors and dealers who do not have a
table. Each person coming in gets a special Auction Lot Viewing
badge that clearly states they can not go onto the bourse floor
on Thursday, and they are all told that this badge only allows them
to go on the Auction Lot Viewing Area and not on the bourse floor.
Each show we find collectors getting an Auction Lot Viewing badge
and sneaking onto the bourse floor, and we have to spend a lot of
valuable time (when we should be taking care of other show work)
finding them and asking them to stay in the Auction Lot Viewing
area. This past Thursday I rode around on my little scooter and
found at least 8 or 10, and our regular security guards probably
found twice that many. It is an ongoing problem and we are now
considering NOT allowing Auction Lot Viewing inside the bourse room
on Thursdays.
Gordon spotted one guy with an Auction Lot Viewing Badge go over
near the Lot Viewing area, stick the badge in his pocket and head
out on the bourse floor. Gordon stopped him and asked to see his
dealer badge. The guy very nastily said "I'm not a Dealer, I'm a
Collector, and I don't need a dealer badge". Gordon explained that
the bourse on Thursday was for Dealers Only, all of whom either pay
for a table or pay the Super Bourse Registration Fee and donation to
Children's Hospital, and he was not allowed to go on the bourse
floor. The guy told Gordon to "Go to Hell" and to "F" off and ran into
the crowded bourse area. Gordon is not physically able to chase
anyone so he got on the P.A. (extremely upset) and made the
announcement that anyone found on the bourse floor without a
legitimate dealer badge was trespassing and would be arrested and
taken to jail. Perhaps the announcement could have been a little
more diplomatic but Gordon was extremely upset with the way he
was talked to by this collector, and the announcement was
extremely effective. I happened to be on my scooter near the
Auction Lot Viewing area when he made it, and I watched three or
four people come off the bourse floor pinning on their Auction Lot
Viewing badges as they went into the Lot Viewing area. A couple
more went out the front door, including the very rude person who
made those comments to Gordon.
I agree the announcement was a bit much, but then again we didn't
find any more people on the bourse floor without the proper badges
after that. Ed Kuszmar
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
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