Charmy's March 2017 BALTIMORE SHOW REPORT w/Tons of Pics!
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Well, here we are again, another show and another show report. I appreciate everyone who came up to me during the show to thank me and tell me how much they enjoy my show reports (and to ignore the naysayers). This one will have a lot of photos of some amazing coins but also a bunch of photos from the sites in and around Baltimore and D.C.
I left OC on Tuesday. This is me very happy to be heading to the Baltimore show!
It was a very beautiful day and I always enjoy flying over the sunny Southern California coastline. This first picture is of the popular Fashion Island in Newport Beach
This is a neat picture showing Newport Harbor.
The gorgeous SoCal coast: Newport Beach, Corona del Mar, Laguna Beach, Dana Point, San Clemente, etc.
I changed planes in warm sunny Phoenix
Shortly after I settled in my window seat on the plane, a guy sat down in the aisle seat next to mine. The flight attendants (who were based in Baltimore) began fawning over this guy, then I heard a couple male passengers calling him coach, asking for his autograph, etc. Obviously he was someone famous, but I had no idea who he was. So once we were underway, I turned to him and said, "You must be someone pretty special, but I apologize, I have no idea who you are." He chuckled and said he was John Harbaugh, the head coach of the Baltimore Ravens. I said "aw, at least I know who the Ravens are!"
Coach Harbaugh was extremely nice, kind, and patient, especially with all the fans that kept coming by his seat, shaking his hand, asking for his autograph, etc. During the flight, he mentioned that his brother, Jim, is also a coach in Michigan and at one time was the head coach of the 49ers. He then told me the story about a few years ago when his team played his brother Jim's team in the Super Bowl (the Ravens won). I actually remembered watching that game and hearing the story of brother coach vs. brother coach. I asked him how his parents handled it, and he said it was really tough on them, but he said they handled it really well. He said his mom said it best, that at the end of the day, it was still about family and feelings for one another.
5 hours later, we landed in Baltimore
At the baggage claim area, several people recognized Coach Harbaugh and asked for photo selfies, and he graciously complied with every request. I finally thought it would be nice to have a photo with this handsome famous coach. When I asked him, he laughed and said "Of course especially since we were seat mates."
I arrived at my hotel pretty late. This time I stayed at the Days Inn, but I'm not sure I will stay there again.
Although it was a lot less expensive than the other host hotels, they ran out of kind and queen bed rooms, so I was stuck with a full sized bed. They also "accidentally" ran my card for double the amount they were supposed and couldn't correct it until I checked out. I may give them one more try since they are right across the street from the convention center, but we'll see. Anyway, once I was checked in, it was a long day so I went right to sleep.
The next day, I headed over to the convention center to view the auctions, including the Pogue coins.
Wow, I felt honored just to be holding some of those amazing pieces of copper!
This is the 1909 vdb Matte Proof Lincoln cent that was recently discovered by Chris Simpson in the circulation strike spot in an old coin album.
And of course the super amazing 1804 dollar!
In the lobby on my way out I ran into one of my most favorite coin dealers, Dino Koromvokis. Note the light lipstick kiss on his cheek from yours truly!
Since we had the rest of the day to kill and it was a gorgeous day, Rick and I decided to rent a car and drive to D.C. to see the cherry blossoms. I had never seen them before, and wow, they were so beautiful!
We also took a driving tour around the city and saw several other famous Washington sites. This of course is the Washington Monument
The Capitol
The Jefferson Memorial
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing
The Executive Building
The Watergate Hotel
For lunch we stopped in Georgetown and dined along the Potomac
Then it was time to head back to Baltimore. Due to the heavy traffic along the highway, we took a more scenic route back to Maryland.
We then spent a few hours at the Horseshoe Casino, then it was time to call it a day!
Set up the next day was at 8am! Boy was that early!!
But Thursday turned out to be very active, both buying and selling.
These are some of the coins I bought (I was pleased that several pieces I bought at the show were sold pretty quickly).
I bought two beautifully toned cents, one was a rainbow toned 1936 Proof in NGC PF66 RB but that sold right away. The other was this violet magenta 1886 PF66 RB Indian cent
Then several people stopped by to say hi! This is Louis Tibor who brought me a deliciouss bottle of Biltmore Merlot!
My dealer friend, Mark Simon, brought this wonderful bottle of Chateau St. Michelle to share! Yes, that's another Charmy kiss on Mark's cheek!
Emily who now works for Americana Rare Coins/Glenn Holsonbake
Don Hosier, the east coast rep of Goldberg Auctions, came by to say hi
This is a very cool scarce Triumphal Arch encased 1901 Indian cent that I recently acquired for my penny exonumia collection and brought for Todd to photograph
After the show was over on Thursday, we went to one of our favorite Baltimore restaurants, Di Mimmo's in Little Italy
My usual posse, Neal, Rick and Ron
These are some of the meals we had, we all enjoyed each of our dishes!
And the wine was also amazing
After dinner, we went around the corner to Vaccaro's where we met some more friends for dessert. These are the desserts our group shared. You can see how huge they are!
Back at my hotel, I ran into another great dealer buddy, James Sego!
Friday morning I got to sleep in until 8:00am since I didn't have to be at the show until 9:00am, yay! This is right inside the convention center facing the doors to the bourse floor
When I got inside, I took the opportunity to walk the floor looking for coins on my customer want list. I also took a few photos around the floor.
This rare 1943 copper cent was on sale at Northeast Numismatic's table right across from my table.
David Lange at NGC
PCGS folks
The Honorable David Bowers!
My dealer buddy, Ron Mirr, from Liberty Coins in Virginia
Back at my table, Steve/TheCharlotteDude, stopped by my table to say hi
Late Friday afternoon, the bourse floor was still quite busy
After the show on Friday, I headed out with my foreign coin friends to The Black Olive where we get to dine at the one table in the wine cellar of the restaurant.
Each time we go to the Black Olive, we make reservations for the next Baltimore show. It's a whole experience and usually lasts from about 7-11pm. We start my having chilled white wine at the small bar while we wait for everyone else to arrive.
One of the more entertaining foreign coin dealers is Charles Adams of Artifacts in the Cayman Islands. He has an entire trunk full of carefully crafted up to the line jokes that artfully delivers throughout the night. He is such a hoot and I adore him so I gave Charlie one of my lipstick kisses as well!
This humongous bottle of wine sits up on a shelf on the wall above the bar. I've never seen a wine bottle as huge!
After everyone has arrived, we all head down to the cellar where our table awaits.
There were 8 of us this time.
Several of the people in this group have been coming to this restaurant for at least the past 10 years, so the waitress pretty much knows which wines to set aside for us. And she's usually right on the money as we enjoy each of the wines she has chose for us.
The most popular appetizer dish among everyone in the group is the octopus
I actually forgot to take photos of the some of the main dishes, but here are photos of a few of the different desserts they offer, including honey and nut covered donut holes, an apple tart, and everyone's favorite baklava ice cream.
Back at the hotel, I again ran into James Sego who was having drinks with with some friends, so they allowed me to "crash" their party.
These are my new young friends, Danny Pfeiffer and Matthew King who graciously bought me a Jägermeister
Since I couldn't make the Pogue auction, I asked Rick to take some photographs for me.
Since the auction was held at another location, this is the bus that was shuttling everyone to and from the auction
The auction was held at the Evergreen House estate which is the home of T. Harrison Garrett and John W. Garrett (of Garrett collection fame). The room the auction was held in was the Carriage House, where the carriage and horses were kept.
The grave stone is of one of the horses and it was right by the front door to the Carriage House.
This is D. Brent Pouge with (his wife?) next to Q. David Bowers
The catalog and auction paddle (photo courtesy of Luis Ramos)
Various shots during the auction. Rick said the young man in the photo below was very enthusiastic throughout the auction.
Saturday is usually a slow selling day, but busy with kids and families looking around. However, for a change, I had great sales on Saturday and was very pleased with the show overall. Thursday as I mentioned I was very busy buying and selling, Friday was rather slow, then Saturday was very good. So overall, my show was probably a B+ and I am hopeful that the market is turning around.
Soon it was time once again to pack up and head to the airport. Bye-bye Baltimore....
As usual, I was very happy to be back at home to see my hubby and my little chubby Penny!
Next up: Westgate Las Vegas show (April 7-9), Santa Clara Show (April 20-23), and Central States (April 27-29)
Comments
I wish Pogue was alive today. The stories he could tell!
Sounds like it was a great show Charm. Thanks for including my VDB proof in the report! (and my hometown of San Clemente, sort of lol) Many great coins with Blue Moon then Rarities then Pogue auctions.
Great report Charmy, thanks for sharing.
Great report. Great wine too.
FABULOUS Report Charmy........Baltimore looks way more fun than I remember from 30 years ago. If you ever run out of coins, you could be a great tour guide.
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Thanks, Charmy...great report as always!
Thanks once again Charmy.
Your wonderful reports make me feel like I was there!
Wasn't there a picture of Pogue with Wife and QDB? Or do you mean this guys Father?
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Thank you for the excellent report!
Larry L.
Thanks Charmy, almost as good as being there! Better and more serious than most other reports.
Awesome show report!
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Thanks for all the Pogue coin photos. That 1799 cent is surreal. It needs Todd or Messydesk to photograph it.
Great report and glad you did the DC run...thats were I was born and raised! Going for a visit next month.
WS
Excellent report. John Harbaugh is a real sweetheart of a man.
The food and wine looked fantastic.
Enjoyed your human interest reports.
It seems like I am becoming all too familiar with that cellar dining area
Once again, thanks for the wonderful report.
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Great report as usual. Love that 1799 cent.
Interesting choice for John Harbaugh's watch - Sea Dweller.
Funny that he didn't recognize the famous Penny Lady! Seriously, if I had walked by you two sitting there I would have immediately recognized you. Then I probably would have thought, "who is that sitting next to Charmy, he looks familiar. He must be some coin dealer I recognize from one of Charmy's show reports."
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Great report Charmy, per usual. People like you are making it even harder not to attend one of the big ones. It must have been hypnagogic to handle some of the "Great Ones" in Numismatology. One of my big mistakes was not making it back to your table in Dallas last year to get "your" autograph.
I would be willing to wager that Rick needed a visit to the dentist after that plate of sweets!
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How were the pogue half cent lots? I saw them in the catalog but just figured they were going to be too expensive for my liking. What was the quality like and how did the prices realized seem?
Charmy you're awesome!! See ya at Central States!
Great report and pictures as always!
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great report,thank you.....you may want to consider setting up a kissing booth at your next show
Great report. Love that '43 Lincoln!
PS I'm glad you got to sit with the 'nice' Harbaugh brother!
Dave
Thank you for the excellent show report.
Love your show reports, Charmy!
The newps, pix of board members and dealers and also the human element (food, libations, awards, weather and other important topix).
They are so thorough and make me feel like I was there.
Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to put them together.
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Thanks for the excellent report.
Awesome report, Charmy. Glad to meet and chat with you! That's a great line up of copper there.
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The guy across from Harbaugh looks like the poker player Antonio Esfandiari.
second that, thanks for the close up of the 1799 My dream coin
And I thought I liked already, Christ, I believe I sell every thing I own to buy that!
Charmy, these reports must take a chunk of time to create but they are just SO awesome. I very much look forward to seeing them. Thanks, thanks, and thanks some more.
Charmy, thanks for putting the effort into these show reports. I actually feel like I attended - at least for the food and drink.
Alas, I will never personally attend a Balto show as long as the state of maryland does not honor my concealed carry permit.
I will spend my money elsewhere, nor will I consign to a Balto auction.
Sorry to be a realist.
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Thanks for another great report, and the DC sidetrip!
Nice report and very cool that you sat next to John Harbaugh on the flight!
It's (nearly) unanimous that you make the most interesting show reports. Thank you again, for all your effort.
Wow . . .
Harbaugh, enough food photos to ruin my diet, and wine out the wazoo !!!
Heck with coins . . . . . this is THE LIFE !!!!
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(Oh . .I have several bottles of wine I am saving from waaaaaay back to 1987. They will make your 'All-Time' list)
Always enjoy your show recaps. Of note to me was the sign stating show days/hours. Sat. hour closing at 6PM. Sun. until 3 PM "* limited dealers". With the concern on these boards by some over dealers vacating the show early on Sat. maybe Sat. should state limited dealers as well. Then maybe those that were disappointed upon arrival won't be surprised with the lack of a full bourse floor. Or pre show press release's could state such. If all the dealers will not be present on that Sat., it is only fair to fore warn the customer base to prevent false hopes of a full bourse presence being dashed, and to prevent blowback to the promoters/dealers. Respectfully submitted.
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Wonderful. I appreciate the Pougue pics.
Amazing copper and a great pic of TDN's newp.
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Once again Charmy... a marvelous show report. Covers all the bases.... fantastic wines as well (that is important)....Incredible coins and great pictures.... I look forward to your show reports from each show.
Thanks again... Cheers, RickO
Great report & pictures Charmy, thanks very much.
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Thank you for a great report, Charmy. I walked by your table several times during the show intending to stop and introduce myself, but you always had someone there. Next time.
Tom
Another wonderful show report!
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