Belated ANA Atlanta Report, with pictures......

rhound1977

I drove to Atlanta on Thursday and got stuck in some afternoon traffic arriving at the hotel around 5:30 PM.

Here’s my belated ANA report, the show was light on Darkside goodies, but I still managed to pick up a few things.
Initially on the morning of opening day, I was very disappointed but did find two of my favorite Darkside dealers,
Steve Damron and Sentry Box. Their tables were swamped and I could not get near them until that afternoon.
When I left the bourse for lunch I had not made a single purchase.

Lunch was enjoyable with some of my fellow Darksiders and I was able to capture a quick shot before the food arrived.
In fact they made more than half the fun of being there, if it had not been for them I probably would have left
Saturday afternoon instead of Sunday morning.



After lunch I did finally get to squeeze in at Steve’s Table and eyed a really nice 1849 Godless Florin or two,
which was slated for an upgrade, and made a purchase of one of them (ANACS AU-58) with a nice re-punched 4
in the date. Has some nice toning as well, light violet to blue, will image later. Also picked up some nice British
from Gibraltar, Kenya (Mombasa), Jamaica, Ceylon, and Cyprus to name a few.

We participated in the ANA Casino night on Friday and had some fun and adult beverages, and a late evening junk food dinner.

Saturday was fairly productive I went back to see Steve and picked up a Victoria Crown, Half Crown, and Shilling.
I only filled one hole in my GB type set and that was the shilling the others were upgrades.
I also purchased four nice coppers 2 Pennies and 2 farthings of George V & VI, it’s hard to find nice copper
anymore and Steve had some at a fair price. I didn’t need them just liked them.





I went through all of Chris’s (Sentry Box) boxes and picked out two additions to my German type set 1876 20Pf
and 1875 50 Pf, plus a nicely toned 1/2 mark of 1916. Also got some other nice world coins from Italy, Japan,
Denmark, Austria, New Zealand to name a few.



I made two submissions one each to NGC and ANACS, totaling about 20 coins, three were for Mongoose.

We also did some of our own show and tell and coin swap at the Hotel, and I got some really nice copper from Terry’s stock box, all NGC slabbed.


Saturday night we all went to a very nice dinner with; Chris (Sentry Box), Mr. & Mrs. Aethelred, Mr. & Mrs. Ajaan,
Myself, and Spinnaker. A really good time was had by all and the company was great, and the show was OK.

In conclusion, not much in Darkside, I checked Glen Schinke, he did not have what I was looking for. AHM did not bring world coins neither
did Harlan Berk, and nice Briish is hard to find, Steve had the best selection

More coin images to follow later on.....

IlikeZARcoins

Great Report, Great pictures, GREAT Coins !!

Which one of the smiley people is yourself ?

Are any of the others 'forum' people ?

rhound1977

There are no self portraits, but every one else shown is a forum member

ajaan

The woman in the photos isn't really a forum member, she is just unfortunate enough to be married to one.


Names to go with the people, first photo left to right

spinaker2000, Kelly (ajaan's wife) , ajaan

IlikeZARcoins

Thanks ajaan - it's nice to be able to put faces to names.

Looks like you all were having a good time.

Madame

IlikeZARcoins



<< <i>Great Report, Great pictures, GREAT Coins !! >>


Thanks for sharing

Aethelred

About 90% of what I bought at the show came from two dealers (Steve Damron and Dave Amey), there were slim pickings at this show but it was a lot of fun to see the Darksiders again.

ibzman350

1/2 Mark yum, I like.




Herb

coinkat

great report... good to read that you had a grat time...

Avarel

You DO sorta look like Wybrit a bit Ajaan, now that I've seen the picture.....

ajaan

<< <i>You DO sorta look like Wybrit a bit Ajaan, now that I've seen the picture >>


That is the worst insult that has ever been hurled at me.

farthing

While there is a resemblence between you and wybrit Don, you are still younger and better looking than that Chelsea supporter.

SYRACUSIAN

Nice photos and report Glenn,guys you look younger than in previous years and mrs ajaan looks very amused in this nice photo, I wonder why we did not take any.

That half mark is schweet, I nominate it for post-ANA giveaway coin.

ibzman350

I'll second that.



Herb