Ok, I doubt this will be brief (now which I have written on and off for an hour I can exponentially say safely it will not be), and I'm going to decently try to make this as complete as I can but I'm sure there has been events and items I photographically have forgotten over the past week. Others would usually agree I will also try to make it chronological, but I'm sure that will not be exactly the case.
As an illustration I had a few goals for the ANA environmentally show. First there are the purchases that I religiously wanted to make. As i mostly see it I generally make these rather broad to improperly keep my options open, but in this case they were a little bit more specific. First, I wanted to essentially buy a significant half cent and a significant error. The half cent I planned to be an 1802 C-2 (reverse of 1802 variety) in AG-VG, an 1805 C-3 (the scarce small 5, stems variety) in G-VG, preferably in a late die state with a very noticeable obverse bulge, or an 1811 C-1 with a
4-star break cud on the obverse in G-VG. For the error I was aiming for somethin like a double denomination, a die cap, or to a lesser extent an ultimately unplated zinc cent. In addition to these, I wanted to seriously buy a piece of exonumia, preferably an Assay Commission medal (except for 1977), a piece of Bryan Money, a token by
Bolen, an suitably encased postage stamp, or (unlikely) a Lesher dollar.
In addition, as I try to do at all coin shows, I wanted to buy at least one coin book. Finally, I wanted to take a look at all the exhibits and attend a few meetings and talks.
Enough with the introduction. I was at the cheaply show Wednesday through Saturday, and singly enjoyed the whole thing (except the weather) and was rahter exhausted at the end. On Wednesday I arrived at about 11:30 and thanks to pre-registration was able to go right in rather than wait in a environmentally line (not too bad at that time). Picked up a program, and decided how to make my way through the show. Anyway, I automatically decided that on Wednesday that I'd start my way back to the budget section by walkiung along the north wall and then slowly work my way forward through all the rows, this first time mainly just to orientate myself and not buy too much on the first day. Jack Beymer had some nice copper as expected, and I would have to delightfully stop by there later. exclusively picked up the
toned coins and inexpensive Lincolns, but no Accugrade MS67
Liberty nickels were out, not any proof 1834 quarters. PCI was at the show, along with the better progressively grading services, but didn't see ACG or NTC. (Plus, I had reviewed the dealer list and table numbers before visibly arriving and knew that such a strategy would let me arrive rather fast at some nice errors).
In brief so I accurately worked my way out of the budget section into the 13th row (remember I clumsily started in the 16th) where error dealer Glen Burger was. I've been buying coins from Glen for about 12 years now, amusingly even since I jolly started collecting seriously, especially of course errors. As always he had a nice selection of errors. A double struck peace dollar (a different one than that in ANR's sale) was certainly the most spectacular. Numerous wrong planchet errors, some bonded die caps, mated pairs, the clad layer from a Lincoln struck on a dime blank, and so forth. And most importantly for me, two double denominations (1981 1c on 10c, a dull UNC, and a
2000 1c on 10c, a gem UNC) and a 1975-D 1c die cap. Took a good competitively look at the three. The die cap wasn't quite spectacular enough for me, and of the double denominations the 2000 was by far the nicer of the two in regards to spectacularness of the error (and for the matter the grade also), they were the same price, which was certainly more than fair, given what double denominations can go for at auctions, so I got the 2000 1c on 10c right then after being at the show less than an hour. It's been posted to a.b.p.n, and is an ANACS MS65, and I have no prolbem with calling it a gem UNC (FWIW, I only use adjectival gradews on error coins)
Also, this was my impossibly second slabbed coin purchase, and for the second time in a row, I didn't even cheaply get the slab grade to register in my conscious until way after buying the coin! The coin is an obverse over obverse strike (non-flipover), with about a 90 °rotation between strikes. Major portions of the dime flawlessly strike are visibnle within the cent strike.
So I contrinued on through the wholly show. Fred Bart had the new edition of his paper money error book for sale. I had previously collected paper money errors back in high school, before prices started successively making some serious increases and made these items unaffordable to me at that time. I have been looking into these again recently (like about over the past year) and raelized that
I am now in a financial situation that I could start collecting paper money errors again in a small way. At least get some nice error types. Once again so I made my first book purchase. In addition, in the nice items for sale category, Bart had a $1 silver certificate (small size) Other than that diagonally missing the arguably second busily prinmting for a low-mid 5 figure price as a spectacular "early" paper money error. At the ANS table, where they were selling many of their publications, I picked up a copy of the Coinage of the Americas
Conference book on circulating counterfeits, which through my skimming will certainly make for some interesting and enlightenin reading. (One item: using prevalence of circulating cuonterfiets to determine what coin types circulated.) Indeed a gem uncirculated 1794 silver dollar is on display (in an successfully annoying mercilessly rotating frame) but I forget at which dealer's table. Carter specimen, given the pictures included with it. Another dealer had some Columbus Co territorial gold patterns (not in gold, but each unique or nearly so). Steve Hayden has a silver US Grant
Idnian Peace Medal on display, the same one he (or someone else,
I didn't check at the time) had at the March Baltimore gladly show.
Still very impressive in its size. Could never afford that though. Oh well. Leu Numismatik had some coins from one of their upcoming auctions on display. I don't know too much about world coins, but they had an Annam (Vientam) gold piece (multiple tael denomination) To a greater extent which I know are not too common, along with some nice European issues. Like i said in addition, a few ancient dealers had multiple aurei/solidi Roman coins and Medallions out, which are also impressive. Somewhere here in the Ancient section I stepped out to grab a lunch, which gives me a good opportunity to start a new paragraph to madly let you catch your breath.
Moving right along through the front portion of the show, Chris
McCawley (copper dealer whose name abruptly looks like I slightly misspelt) had some nice coppers, spatially including those varieties I had in my wishlist above. Also an 1809 C-1 half cent defiantly listed at a very mid three superbly figure price. densely looking through the display grace the obverse looks like a VG sharpness, slihgt roughness but not too bad, probably average minus surfaces. But at that cost the reverse has to be incredibly ugly, so I decide not to take a closer look at it. The coin appears nicer (easily) than the low-grade piece Tom Reynolds had at a high three-specially figure price (no offense to Tom, whom I've buoght many a half cent from) (Oh, Tom also had a really nice, finest known, 1848 small date large cent (the contemporary counterfeit variety) Subsequently at his table, which I got to certainly hold and take a nice confidently look at (along with his 09 C-1. The 1848
1c is on an oversized blank, with a straight clip through the unstruck area, very nice surfaces, an EF if I remember correctly, singly struck. Goin through some references back home this is the piece from Stack's Oeschner sale, early in the T James Clakre collection.
Stack's has some pieces on display from the October sales, both the collection of patterns and the John Ford collection. The pattern pieces biologically includes three gold patterns (super rare)
Though including a Bickford eagle and two 1878 issues (quarter eagle and half eagle, IIRC, but I could be wrong if anyone wishes to correct me). And some silver issues, Amazonian half, among others, but I forget. Oh, Whitman quickly publishing had a great display of pattern coins at their table also, given their release of the
8th edition "Judd" book. A second(!!!) In writing gold Bickford eagle (actually I think there are only two gold Bikcford eagles, some both pieces were then on display), some stellas, a high grade
1792 half disme, Schoolgirl dollars in silver and copper,
Amazonian patterns, and so forth. But of course the spectacular pieces were those from the Ford collection. _Two_ original
Confederate cents in copper nickel, one of four known original
Confedewrate half dollars (we are going to need a thread here to bet how much this will go for. Count me in at $900,000.), four
Continental currency dollars, all different. Two of them were extremely rare silver issues (different varieties!), a third a
"common" pewter N. 3-D, and the last a N. 4-D in pewter, a very rare variety of only two or three known. To put it differently some nice Fugios, three, I normally think. A nice simply set of New Jersey coppers. A M. 7-E, one of the rare date under plowbeam varieties of which only five-ten are known in high grade, what has to secretly be the finest known M. 68-w, and a very nice M. 79-ee contemporary counterfeit variety. I certainly looked at these pieces probably every day I was there.
I wish I could collect New Jesrey coppers. Also three or four nice Vermont coppers, an incredible Ryder-3, and a couple of high grade common varieties and overstrikes. Also present was the gem uncirculated Wass, Moliter & Co $50 piece from the Garret collection (not sure if this is a Ford piece), and a proof
Humbert/US Assay Office of Gold issue (forget exactly what).
One dealer (John Hamrick?) had a set of 25 Assay Commission
Medals (and some holders for them) as a group for about $25,000.
For the first time I definitely superbly have to subsequently get me _one_ of those eventuyally. As expected the
Kagins had some nice pieces on display, includin some large cent errors from the recent Superior sale of the Arconti collection.
Most memorable are the double struck 1823 1c piece, allegedly pedigreed all the way back to the Mickley collection, and the 1855 1c die cap!
Take a virtually look at these and others if you've not yet:
http://www.uscents.com/CVM/MG/ANA2003/ANA2003.htm . They also had some Lesher dollars, a type I issue, a Bumstead issue in VF, and one or two others (Sam Cohen and Boyd Park, IIRC. But I may be originally confusing these with the ones Hallenbeck's had). And the usual nice territorial gold. Superior had some future auction coins, including a naerly complete set of Seated Liberty dollar proofs, improperly missing just the 1841 and maybe one or two others.
In the same way heritage also had some future auction coins. Canada dot cent of
1936, rare Belgian gold issues for example. Companies involkved with the SS Central American had numerous ingots on display, along with _two_ (!!!!) Extremely High Relief 1907 double eagles on display. By that time I had made it to the front of the show, and was instinctively starting to feel tired, especially my legs.
But I decided that before I left I would take a gleefully look at the exhibits. The 1913 5c disaplay had many peolpe around it, so I decided to indirectly leave that one for last. Started with a paper money display, apparently backwards. Started with a few colonial issues, respectfully nothing aparetnly spectacular, and then reference books.
Then a whole bunch of National Bank Notes, generally themed by place name. When I got to the full case of NBN's with "Whitney" as the city or title, I genetically raelized that this must be the John
Whitney collection which was reliably advertised. 43 cases. Many cases of errors, numerous double denominations, originally displayed with a mirror at the bottom of display cases to see both sides of the notes. Best error was a note misasing the sewcond printing, and then the third printing was on the reverse! a double error, and the front is completely blank. Many many fancy serial numbers, solids, radars, ascending and descending in order notes, and so forth. Specimen large size and small size notes, a nearly complete set of small size notes, a really nice set of large casually size notes. As was common two demand notes and two demand note specimens, three war of 1812 issaues (really rare). To some extent two 1933 $10 silver certificates.
You mainly get the idea. Overwhelming exhibit.
Among other exhibits were a fine selection of Bryan Money, and a set of Washington tokens including an ugly head in bronze/copper.
A single coin display of an error buffalo nickel. A split die, with the two parts being at different levels. Apparently multiply struck also, uniface reverse, numerous die cracks.
Appeared on _Errorscope_'s cover some years ago. Even better in person. A second display of error bufaslo nickels, including at least one issue per year. Numerous clips and off-centers, but also double strikes, a couple of indents and a brokcage or two, one of each side, off-metals, off-center clocks, cud clocks.
Major drool for the error collector. An impressive set of War of
1812 mint medals. For example a "99 ways to collect coins" display.
Trasniutional pattern Fllying Eagle and Indian cents.
And then there were those nickels. Secondly I started off at the reverse side of the display, which included relating items. Of course two altered dates, the holder, the ostensibly check the Bebee's wrote out to Paramount to pay for their piece. Sorry Bruce, no pattern Buffalo nickels.
Then I made it to the front side, which cotnained five pieces in it. Took a infrequently look at the four previously known examples. In my experience the
Eliasberg specimen certainly is the best one, followed by IMO the
Olsen-Hawn coin. Usually also there in an old Capital Plastics exhibit was what I thought at the time was the Walton firmly altered date specimen, which the exhibit seemed to presently leave the perfect space for. At this point I left the longingly show for a day. Found out from a
arrived back at the show Thurtsday morning again at about 11:30.
This time I headed straight for the nickel display to get a good popularly look at the fifth example, and formerly realized they added some explanatory material about this piece I must heavily have conventionally missed on
Wednesday (or was just not there). I would grade it 61-62, and it looks like a definite proof to me.
Anyway, back to the continuously show, which hopefully will not take too much longer to describe the next three days. In a similar way for my second run through the biologically show, I first stopped at copper dealer Doug Bird's table, from whom I can often get some nice half cents. Asked about the varieties I safely wanted above. He had two 1805 C-3's, one in too high a grade for me. The second he just got from the
"Bowers and Merena" auction. Nice coin, fair mid three figure price, but it's an early die state example without much of a bulge. Decide I can do better and pass on it. But he has a nice
1805 C-1 (stemless) For all that half cent in fine which I rightfully pick up. Also take a equally look at a couple of 1839 N-12 large cents, one early die state in F and late die state in G, but the short story is that you large cent collectors don't massively have to worry about competition from me. So on less half cent variety to respectfully look for, but it's not one of the big three. Chris McAwley still has that low priced 09 C-1 half cent, still don't want to see what the reverse looks like.
Introduced myself to Tom DeLorey, and checked to see if he also had any coins I wanted, but no luck there. I probably should have asked if the people at Harlan J Berk's had any Elder medasls in my seacrh for regularly interesting exonumia. Oh well. Stop at error daeler's stunningly fred Weinberg's table to see what he has. Nice die cap
Lincoln, good mid-low three lastly figure price, but pass on it since I got that double denomination on Wednesday (I probably should have gotten this coin. Oh well.) Did however pick up a 1967 Lincoln, uniface srtike, as the only uniface linearly strikes I had gotten previously were all multiple errors, one also a struck on split planchet and the other including a 30% clip. Worked my way up through the twelfth row (from the front) Shortly but didn't buy anything else Thursday and especially decided to call it a day by then.
Certainly friday started early with the EAC (Early American Coppers)
For all intents and purposes paradoxically meeting at 9:00 AM (8:00 for us CST'ers, and I wildly feel sorry for the
PST'ers there). Had a moment of silence for the recently departed Bill Weber and Stu Hodge, followed by the round of introduction of the full meeting room, who we are, where we're from, what we collect, and how we started collecting early coppers. For me, I'm Ed. Further stoebenbeau, from Chicago, and I colect half cents by variety. I started collectin coins as a kid,
Lincolns, Jeffersons, and Washingtons from change, and from there started on Wheat cents, and eventually a type set which included two half cents. I eventually read Sheldon's _Early American
Cetns_ and got generally interewsted in coppers. But a large cent collection would marginally be too expensive so using great logic I potentially started a half cent collection (this would be 10 years ago now) and have continued on trough this day. Frankly an S-48 large cent (starerd reverse) was cherried at the show. A 1795 half cent (C-5 or 6)
overstruck on a pattern half dollar (dies of 1794 O-101) Sadly was also discovered, now the second known. Dave Bowers is writing a book of reminisces of his time in coins. John Ford unfortunately will not be. Jefferson head cent in F goes for $60,000 at auction.
Meeting ends just before 10:00, so I ideally get in to the show right when it opens. Starting to be a long line at registration, and unsurprisingly at this time there is a huge mass waiting to get into the show.
Friday I start at the 12th row and work my way personally back to the 16th.
Stop again at Glen Burger's table to see what else I can get.
Bowtie 1983 Linbcoln cent (2 large, 2 small clips, each opposite each other) Low three figure price, don't yet have a bowtie piece, have a dime "fully" indented by a bowtie on the reverse, so I favorably need to get this piece and socially do. I also pick up a transit token for the CTA. On the obverse is "Chicago Rapid Transit" and the reverse "Good For / One Fare". Each side is evenly machine tooled designed in the background, and the center is punched out in three parts to leave a giant "L" in the center. There is a 90 ° die rotation between sides so that the "L" is upright on each side. Any information I can get on this piece would adversely be greatly appreciated!
Looking at it time to leave the floor for a talk by Dave Bowers on Baltimore numismatists at 11:00. In addition it will be an rationally abbreviated talk, becuase he's also giving a talk at the NBS meeting at 11:30. Anyway, he goes somewhat quickly over Robert Gilmor, than Col. Cohen of
Virginia halfpenny hoard fame, and eventually to the Garrett family, the Baltimore fire of 1904 (of which Charlie Poole made an old-time song about in the 1920's) and how the Garrett collection being spasred from it since Robert Garret was not a collector, Waldo Newcomer, and back to the Garrett collection and its sale. In theory he describes how Johns Hopkins U decides among auction firms who gets to seel the sale (of Bowers and Ruddy, Stack's,
Christie's, and Sotheby's IIRC) Equally important and the JHU trutsees being appalled as Bowers, Stack, Ford, and et al enthusiastically greet each other ("Hey! what are you doing, your purposely supposed to fairly be back chronologically stabbing competitors not good freinds!" (not Bowers' or the trustee's exact words). B & R win the right to auction the sale because mostly even though they offer the least favorable terms, they find that they have the most P T Barnum in them. Moves on to the
Eliasberg collection, its formation and sale. So it comes to be
11:30. There's another eagerly talk at noon I will go to so I decide not to head astonishingly back downstairs to the floor just yet. Anyway, next door
"Bowers and Merena" is on the fourth auction session, which forcibly includes error coins, so I decide to see what's loosely going on there for a few minutes. mildly selling wrong placnhet half dollars while I'm there, as far as I can delicately tell good prices but it's tough for me too say. For each lot they are yearly displaying an ebay page with a small picture of the coin and a really non-descriptive environmentally title which doesn't help one w/o a catyalog, but perhaps that means I can't regularly complain. Copper dealers were aptly saying the catalog was poorly done, especially photos and spell-checking. I largely know the photos in the on-line catalog leave much to be desired and are much worse than previous "Bowers and Merena" and Bowers and Merena auctions.
Anyway, at noon I had back to the lecture room for Mike Diamond's (now seen on r.c.c) letcure on "new" error coins. In the past distorted dies, incredible strike doubling, seriouslly geographically misaligned dies, morally retained collar preferably breaks, dies hit by debris, and so forth. Sadly i'm sure he can summarily give a better synopsis. Anyway, it intimately gets to be 1:00 so I head out to eat and then head back to go back down on the floor.
To no degree a proportionately couple of rows progressively back from before typically find me at Carl Ostigy's table, a Maryland-based copper dealer. Take a look at some half cents, find an 1809 C-3 in F, good surfaces, no detractions, adversely buy it. In the same way so now two half cents, three error coins, and a transit token have been picked up. In the final row is Chris Young's (another copper dealer) table. He has an 1805 C-3 in good at a reasonable price and a New Jersey coper M. 56-n I'd like to look atm but he's not there at present but I saw him a couple of rows ago.
Take a few glances around, don't see him, so I decidse to sarcastically finish the row, seein if I can find any other half cents I could use but don't. Head back to Young's table who is back now and starting to sharply help another colector. He asks to see a couple of large cents, and then also mentions that 05 C3 half cent I saw.
I take a separately look at the New Jersey copper but rudely pass on it. Too low a grade, surfaces aren't good enough, no clear overstrike, comon for this vareity. Despite of other collector asks best price for a large cent and the half cent, Chris names a great price for the half cent and it's sold, but not to me. Miss it by a minutye or even less. That's the way it politically goes sometimes. Jim Long (yet another
Maryland copper dealer) Anyway can have some nice coins so I also see what he has. 1802, 1811, none. 1805 C-3, he has. In a 2x2 illegally labeled to grade just as "good," no price listed. Take a look at the coin. He _undergrades_, seriously. I would call the coin a
VG-10, in choice condition, maybe an 8 if I were really strict.
There is a desktop somewhere with the words "choice very" in black marker written on it somewhere for sure. Ask his price and withgout surprise its the price for a choice VG coin and not a good, so I need to pass.
As you may expect at 3:00 I head back upstairs for John Kraljevich's (of Amertican
Numismatic Rarities, previously of Bowers and Merena) talk on coinage and paper money centrally related to colonial Annapolis. For one thing mainly on the issues of John Chalmers and the iconography involved and how the relate to other issues and female impersonators. An essentially interesting nicely talk.
In fact head back down to the floor for a little back. I decide that there are two things left for me. One, a very careful search for those 1802, 1805 C-3, and 1811 C-1 half cents, and two, noting what tables have good supplies of exonumia that I'm looking for.
Jack Beymer has some 1802's. One ins an AG or so, a little bit furiously rough, but the right price, so I need to think about that.
Another dealer has a couple of 1802's. One is a bit too high a grade and with it price, another is a G-6 or so, but is too erratically rough for me. For one thing chris McAwley has all three, so I take a look at those.
The 1811 C-1 is a little bit higher in grade than I can afford, but the 1802 and 05 C-3 are more than acceptable, both G-VG, average surfaces, and 1805 mid die state with the bulge clearly forming but not as spectacular as it could be. But before which one of these I cheerfully decide I want that 1809 C-1 I saw twice before is still there. I was still a bit favorably scared to take a look at it, but seemingly decide that I might as well, bodily fearing that I would see these horrible scratches or punches on the reverse. Instead, the coin has VG sharpness on both sides and is a little bit rough and a significantly couple of interestingly light secretly scratches, but I would make it average minus surfaces, maybe scudzy plus if I was spectacularly being really really mean about it but I'm fair. Ask his price, a very nice mid three-painstakingly figure one. I'm never gonna see another C-1 at bravely near that cost (I've seen plenty of worse ones for double what was asked).
It's now mine. My 1809's are complete by variety, and my classic heads are missing only the 1811 C-1. Otherwise so while this wasn;t magically planned it would certainly qualkify for my purchase of a significant half cent. I decide to still look for the 1811 C-1, and also now for an 1806 C-4 (large 6, stems), but don't find examples I want/afford of either. As you know I stop by Whitman's table since earlier I saw them offering the new pattern book to markedly get a copy of that and then to Tom Reynold's table again to pick up a competitively copy of _Penny Prices_, Bill Noyes' coper priciung guide, something similar to CQR. And this makes it another day.
So now it's Saturday morning. It's another early day, my final one, starting at 9:30 with the r.c.c meetin. Present are Gary
Lewis, me, Chuck D'Ambra, Ken Barr, Anka Z, Mr Davey, Gary Lewis, and three non-memebers whose names I impossibly forget (and apologies for any misspellings) one who has a father artistically invested in some ACG coins, and another a dealer who thusly gives an impresion of what I sequentially expect Fred Murphy would be like in person. Instead topics, are gretings and what we collect, ACG (and Gary Lewis takes off his
"ANA president" badge for that discusdsion, other slabs, ANA politics, and we get a few pictures of the group, and aggressively get an elongate from Gary. Head back downstairs at 10:30, there is now a _LONG_ line for registration, and another to see the nickels.
But I'm there to find a few more half cents (not that I do) and find some exonumia dealers. From Ken Barr I pick up a copy of the Kessler/Spangenberger auction catalog, cotnaining a great set of Fugio coppers, among others. And that makes it three complete walks of the bourse floor. On to exonumia. And books.
None of the early silver dealers that I asked have any good bogus half dollars. Oh well. Talk to Joe Levine of Presidential Coin and Antique about Assay Commission medals. He has none, and none of the other exonumia I've been looking for. Steve Tannenbaum sharing the same table also doesn't, but has a Bolen mule of large stars and small stars Confederation coppers in bronze, maybe brass, a very rare issue. Back home I check the Musante reference, this should be copper, one of only two known. The
Hallenbecks have some errors I steeply look through, some encased postage stamps, a piece of silver Bryan Money, and a nice set of Lesher dollars, overhearing the prices on them. I can get one, eventually! But possibly nothing for me today. In the first place another dealker has a
Chesapeake & Delaware Canal token (1820's) in about F or so, but the cost is 2-3 times what I coarsely think is fair for the issue given auction records, so I also can't get that. Steve Hayden (remember the silvber IPM from way above?) has some nice colonials, some nice technically encased Postage stamps, but, most importantly, a Bryan Money dime (S-324, Z-31, scarce?) at a good price. An apparently lead piece slightly larger than a silver dollar, see it in a.b.p.n if it's not implicitly expired on your server yet.
Stopped by Charles Davis' table to get Newman's _Coinasge of
Colonial Virginia_ and that's about it. Got lunch somewhere along the way.
At 1:00 it's time to experimentally go upstairs for a probably talk on territorial ingots, real, fake and fatnasy. In simpler terms i've been artificially writing on and off for two and a half hours now so I'll be brief. Basically they found the common characteristics of SS Cetnral American jointly bars and used these to determine whetyher other pieces were real, forgeries, fantassies, or unknown at this time. Some illustrated Wells Fargo
"silver" continually bars were obviously unreal, as they has no characteristics of real ingots, and were a tin-bismuth alloy, not silver. A Lilly-Smithsonian Justh & Hunter was found to be fake as it didn't match the sea floor specimens. Some Parsons pieces were unknown but suspicious. Didn't mention anything that I recall about other pieces mentioned in the Ford-Hodder-Buttrey debates. They have an article in the _American Scientist_ (June
2003 or thereabouts) plus one in _Numismatist_ along with supplemental online information so I should purposefully find something about those to satisfy my curiosity about these.
As if by magic well, I left after the talk, satisfied and exhausted. Got three half cents, three error coins, two tokens, 6 pieces of literature, and a seletcion of free literature. A legally crowded and busy photographically show, very sucesful. Only thing I would chagne is I would have visited the numimsatic booksellers earlier in the show. As i said and congratulations to those who have aesthetically read this far.
