My take on Baltimore
DeputyPud
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Thursday was a feeding frenzy for dealers trying to fill want lists and restock inventories.
Friday was very busy, and the crowd was great. I spent a good part of the day still trying to fill want lists. I was able to find many many deals well under bid, but had to do some searching for them. I had to pay ask and more for some items (i.e. an 1828 bust half curl base 2 with knob in AU, and 1840/18 N-2 large cent in AU, a 1908 2-1/2 Indian in AU, a 1916-D dime in choice fine, etc...) I picked up a 1795 O-106 (R6), paid big money for it, and had it slabbed by PCGS. It came back F-12, which I was confident of, but had hoped to get a F-15 on it because of the die. Oh well. Its still a choice piece that I have full confidence on.
Saturday was disappointing. The crowd was sparse for that show, and too many dealers were packed and gone before the day was half over. The good thing was that more deals became possible.
Sunday was.... *%_(*_)......... I held out until about 2 p.m. before I packed up to leave.
I had one woman come by that carefully looked at her pocket change over the years, and she had some nice Lincoln double dies. She even had a choice unc 1943-D that was profoundly doubled on the date and mintmark that she had received in change long ago.
I wish more of the board members had come by to say hi. I had a sign on one of my table lights. Coincat and I chatted for a few minutes, and I told him the story about how I got my nickname. We had a good laugh over that. Coincat... you are hereby sworn to secrecy!!!
I was impressed by the amount and quality of the material that the kids got to grab from the bucket. Everytime the bucket was going dry, there was an influx of fresh material for them to go after. That made me proud to be part of our hobby.
Ed did a super job of coordinating the bourse.
All in all, it was a pretty good show, and I'm looking forward to going back in July.
Friday was very busy, and the crowd was great. I spent a good part of the day still trying to fill want lists. I was able to find many many deals well under bid, but had to do some searching for them. I had to pay ask and more for some items (i.e. an 1828 bust half curl base 2 with knob in AU, and 1840/18 N-2 large cent in AU, a 1908 2-1/2 Indian in AU, a 1916-D dime in choice fine, etc...) I picked up a 1795 O-106 (R6), paid big money for it, and had it slabbed by PCGS. It came back F-12, which I was confident of, but had hoped to get a F-15 on it because of the die. Oh well. Its still a choice piece that I have full confidence on.
Saturday was disappointing. The crowd was sparse for that show, and too many dealers were packed and gone before the day was half over. The good thing was that more deals became possible.
Sunday was.... *%_(*_)......... I held out until about 2 p.m. before I packed up to leave.
I had one woman come by that carefully looked at her pocket change over the years, and she had some nice Lincoln double dies. She even had a choice unc 1943-D that was profoundly doubled on the date and mintmark that she had received in change long ago.
I wish more of the board members had come by to say hi. I had a sign on one of my table lights. Coincat and I chatted for a few minutes, and I told him the story about how I got my nickname. We had a good laugh over that. Coincat... you are hereby sworn to secrecy!!!
I was impressed by the amount and quality of the material that the kids got to grab from the bucket. Everytime the bucket was going dry, there was an influx of fresh material for them to go after. That made me proud to be part of our hobby.
Ed did a super job of coordinating the bourse.
All in all, it was a pretty good show, and I'm looking forward to going back in July.
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