went to the local show today..........

spinaker2000 · May 29, 2004 6:15AM

And was pleasantly surprised at the mass turn out of buyers and dealers. The Greensboro shows have been lacking in the past, but hopefully this is a sign of good things to come. There were six or seven tables that had world coin stock, (Which is twice as normal). Even one dealer from Ct., Tony Hansen, who had some nice British copper and silvers. I wound up buying an unc 1914 1d from with nice toning and an unc 1896 1/2d.

Two tables down was a fellow that said he had a nice Vatican copper that he just picked up at the Morehead show. Humm? I thought, Sounds like a familiar coin, and it was. He had purchased it from "rhound" only two weeks prior. I only found a SA 1955 unc 1d from his stock, but enjoyed looking thru his coins and talking with him. I did invite him to join us here, so if he does, his name is Joe Rudzinski. He says hi to mongoose and rhound.

The only other coins I bought were from a dealer from Tn. Just picked out his toners, from Canada, a '61 fifty cent piece, a '63 blue toned 25 cent, a '66 speckeled toned 25 cent, and a 1918 1 Franc in au with blue and gold target toning.

Those wiped me out!! I only brought $40.