Road Report

Still not fully recovered from our trip to Philadelphia, Team CRO was nevertheless up super-early again on Sunday so we could re-organize ourselves into local show mode and get to Devens bright and early.

Where we arrived just after 8 and were surprised to see that the venue had been set up for a wedding to be held directly in front of the door.

And I mean d-i-r-e-c-t-l-y in front, so you had to bisect the rows of chairs to enter the building:

Not sure if the actual ceremony had already taken place Saturday, or was yet to happen Sunday, but it struck me as a totally bizarre place to have it unless of course this was by design and one of our single dealer friends was about to get hitched during the show. Alas, we had to leave somewhat early, so if it did happen, we missed it. Sorry.

Anyway, in terms activity inside the building, we saw a steady procession of long time customers at the table, variously viewing coins or showing us coins they bought to sell and/or trade.

And we managed to sell a bunch of coins to several of them, and one to a guy we have known forever but who last bought a coin from us about 10 years ago.

We also saw a long time customer who has since migrated into woodworking and showed us his latest efforts which were absolutely fantastic.

Not every interaction with show attendees was super smooth, though, including one with a customer who was looking at a coin in a PCGS Doily slab but did not want to pay any holder premium for it since he was only interested in the coin inside. I certainly understand that, but as I explained to him, if you do not desire or value Doily holders, you should definitely go try to find a different coin that is not in one of them.

Then we did a bunch of bookkeeping here delivering coins and picking up coins, which is extremely convenient for us to do here.

And then very late in the day I went to visit another dealer friend’s table, but he told me that he did not really have anything that “screamed CRO“. Just when I began to walk away he said “well, maybe this one” and handed me a coin. Which I studied for 2.5 seconds and bought right then and there. The moral of this story? Sometimes a helpful suggestion actually is.

After which we packed up and headed out so we could begin a period of super intensive R&R which will last until first thing Monday morning when we will dive into all of the work that has piled up while we were away.

EOM