Sacramento coin show

drjules

Just a quick report from the show held at the Red Lion Hotel this past Friday and Saturday. I hadn't been to a show in town for over six months and this was the first one to be held on Friday / Saturday rather than Saturday / Sunday. I made it there at 2pm on Saturday so I didn't have very high hopes of finding much but I was pleasantly surprised that there were still a few goodies left. A lot of the dealers were complaining about the dates as I guess trade had been slow on Friday. Also the major darkside dealers (Fragner) was absent because of the dates. Three or four dealers out of about 25 had darkside. The others had the usual mix of morgans and more morgans but there seemed to be a big showing of commemoratives, both modern and old. That said I went with the "buy what takes my fancy" attitude and found a few nice pieces.

1927 1 French franc token (I would appreciate more info on this)



A very attractice 1901 penny



Another piece I would like more info on: 1852 Canadian half penny token



and a 1911 chop marked GB trade dollar



I also picked up two Kennedy halves for my Dansco (1992 silver proof and 1982 D DDR)

Oh and I nearly forgot this funky thing



Does it count as a BBL?

Dr J

ajaan

The French coin isn't a token. It is a coin. They were minted from 192o to 1927. Yours has a mintage of 11+ million.

The Half Penny token from Canada is a fairly common Bank Token. They are also found in the One Penny denomination.

I love the chopmarks on the Trade Dollar. They add character IMO.