MNS Summer 2009 show reports?
RYK
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My report has already been posted on Twitter, but I have not seen any others. I know that bidask, jmski52, jaywalker, njcoincrank, BigBuffaloGuy, and, no doubt, other forum members were present. How about some show reports? (WTCG is excused, as I did not see him there. 
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As a follow-up, I did win three filthy, original $20 Libs in the Friday night auction, and I know that the 1936 proof WLH found an excellent new home, as well. Did anyone else win an auction item?
Edit: here's the link for my twitter report feed. Start from the bottom of that page and read up. The last two entries are all-important Steelers news and info notes.
)As a follow-up, I did win three filthy, original $20 Libs in the Friday night auction, and I know that the 1936 proof WLH found an excellent new home, as well. Did anyone else win an auction item?
Edit: here's the link for my twitter report feed. Start from the bottom of that page and read up. The last two entries are all-important Steelers news and info notes.
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Since I didn't have "enough" money to make a splash in an early date, I perused his nicer late dates and found a couple of really nice candidates - an 1851 and an 1852 - both RBs in awesome shape with nice color and high condition census.
As attractive as they were, I decided to keep looking and found an 1840 that had no original red left, but the detail and texture of the color were a wonderful light chocolate brown. Upon examination with a 10X loupe, I couldn't satisfy myself that I liked the color under magnification as much as I did with the naked eye, so I set it aside.
At that point I continued to bounce around his cases, looking for a nice cent when I came upon the 1849 that I ended up buying.
Tom had a table copy of Bob Grellman's late date book, so I ordered one from Tom. He did mention that they are out of print and inventories are becoming depleted, so if you want one you should consider it soon.
I mentioned to Tom that I was thinking about joining EAC, and had been thinking about it for the last 25 years. He joked that I was being cautious and I had to agree that you have to be somewhat careful about joining these types of organizations in a rush.
At some point, James Garcia stopped to chat with Tom, and I re-introduced myself from last year when RYK had introduced me to James. We had a nice chat about what we enjoyed, and James invited me over to his table to see a set of 1911 Prussian coins that he had bought in their original box. I confessed to James that I still like RYK's nickel composition 10 Cent Pattern with the Large Cent Coronet design.
I was looking at a 1883 NC Liberty nickel in MS, and James recounted that he has assembled (2) complete sets previously. He had a nice 1896 Proof that was a pleasure to look at.
By the time I left James' table, the place was clearing out pretty much so I was cruising past some hangers-on, and just happened to notice some German Thalers in a case. The Weiss's were very knowledgeable and a delight to talk to about coins.
We bopped through their case looking at German and English and Russian coins, and the more I tried to talk myself into leaving, the more I had to stay and look further. Last year, I had bought a 2/3 thaler, see below:
They happened to have the 1 thaler of the same city, and I was sorely tempted but I didn't buy it for the same reason that I didn't buy a 1 thaler last year - I had already spent "enough".
Unfortunately, that didn't keep me from deciding to buy this Lubeck thaler which had also caught my eye:
Please excuse the photos, which were taken in a hurry last night.
Warren Weiss also got me interested in some English coinage that was precursor to the Dollar, the counterstamped English Silver Dollar sized coins which ultimately evolved into a transition coin which was the first use of the "dollar" term, and was so stated on that particular English Crown. I don't have the reference info, but it was highly interesting to me.
That's all I had time for except for some idle chitchat with a few dealers who all indicated that it had been a good show for them. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough time to peruse any Weimar currency, which is becoming somewhat of an interest of mine. Maybe next time!
Some day, I will have to find bidask at one of these St. Louis shows. As usual, the St. Charles venue is far superior to the Convention Center downtown, and I am glad it was selected.
I knew it would happen.
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That makes two of us.