My Sacramento Coin Show Experience

19Lyds

Went down to the Sacramento Coin show on Friday and did not leave disappointed.

This was the first show I have been to in a liong time where I dod n;t buy every friggin coin I thought might be something special so I did leave with a couple of bucks in my pocket!

I came home with several coins but only two are worth noting. The first was this 1971-D Eisenhower.



Nothing of particular to note such as, not a Friendly Eagle or a Peg Leg. Not even a Talon Head but if you zoom in on the Mint Mark:



Its the newest RPM discovery for the IKE Series! The MM was first noticed by Tom Kalantzis and submitted to John Bordner (NCADD President and their MM attributor) for attribution. It has been labeled as "1971-D WRPM-001". Needless to say I was very excited to come across this specimen since I already have a ton of 71-D's of which 0 display this particular Mintmark!

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The second item of note was a blank Type 2 Arizona State Quarter planchet that our very own ZeeBob gave to me. Zee reported his find in this thread last November. In that thread I explained how excited I would be to come across such a find so Zee was nice enough to just give it to me! I was simply floored!
This is one coin which will always be special!

Thanks Zee!

blu62vette

Lee is one of the guys who truly enjoys coin shows. He has a lot of fun and when he came by to say hi, he already had a bag of goodies in hand.

SeattleSlammer

nice pickups!

19Lyds

All I can say is that I'm really grateful that Zee caught me as I was on my way out the door because I didn't bring a change of pants (which I should have)!
That was truely an amazing gift for me!

zeebob

19Lyds, I was happy to have caught you. I didn't know which day you would be there - so it worked out for both of us. Your IKE wisdom and continued support of this forum are very much appreciated by a whole bunch of us here on the forum. Thank you!

19Lyds

As an update, there are several more IKE RPM coins out there.

Specifically:

1974-D/D WRPM-001
1974-D/D WRPM-002

1976-D T1 WRPM-001

I have no pictures of these since I don't have any ( <sniff> ) but they are out there.

mdwoods

Nice find. I'm always somewhat amazed when people discover these things. Congratulations.

blu62vette

I was amazed that at the show the past weekend I started talking to 19lyds without seeing his face, I just saw what he was looking at and knew it was him.

19Lyds

<< <i>I was amazed that at the show the past weekend I started talking to 19lyds without seeing his face, I just saw what he was looking at and knew it was him. >>



I was amazed I could remember your name Ted!