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the Sunday morning rehash of the NY International...

I was only able to attend Saturday. Unfortunately, I missed everyone except MrEureka and Zohar. I did have a pleasant chat with a dealer about early milled British crowns. He has some terrific examples, including the finest George I Crown I have ever seen in person. Attending a show like this creates a wonderful opportunity to personally see what is available as well as purchase. There really is no substitute for seeing coins/medals in hand to truly appreciate them. There were excellent dealers attending, the venue at the Waldorf was terrific and seemed well attended creating the usual crowded aisles.

I was able to find a handful of interesting coins- nothing that falls into the OMG category. I liked the 1903 Canadian Dime I found- it seems to be a worthy of a submission and has that nice crusty look with excellent detail on the reverse with the typical flat obverse strike. Not sure how it would grade, but I like it and that is what matters. I did buy some Canadian PL dollars- not rare- just afew that I did not have. I will say that there is wide spread so it seems in terms of how these are graded. I think I have enough examples to make an interesting thread- at least to those that collect Canadian.

I was able to find some mid century Mexican copper... very red and quite nice. I have always liked the 20 Centavos design and I mention this mainly to remind people that there are wonderful coins that are quite inexpensive- like the cost of a cup of coffee. And looking for coins that a collector finds interesting (such as my example) makes the trip to the show all the more enjoyable. I did find a decent 1928 large date 5 centavos as I already had the small date. I find the 5 Centavos series (1914-1935) to be well designed and interesting even though I don't believe the series has a huge collector following.

I managed to find and purchase a GB 1881 1d that looked attractive and will be submitted. It looks to be Obverse 9 with the J reverse making it the most common for the year.

There looked to be a lot of activity- I cannot say which countries were truly hot other than India. I missed attending any of the auctions in person and was unsuccessful bidding on Heritage and Goldberg.

Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

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