Road Report

Interesting Things that Happened in Devens

Despite a late night on Saturday, we got to the show Sunday even earlier than we usually do. Frankly that seemed pretty unlikely at 2 AM.

We had two Washington Medals in our case – one for $97,500, and one for exactly 1% of that amount. Surprisingly (or maybe not surprisingly at all) the cheaper one garnered waaaaay more attention, probably because it is XL, super flashy and struck in extra high relief:

We bought a coin from a father-daughter team that came to the table, after which she told us it “was a pleasure doing business with you”. Right back atcha!

I was stunned and depressed to see this giant pile of snow in the parking lot at the venue since it really should have melted a long, long time ago:

One of our neighbors actually came to the show to see what we do. That is literally the first time that has happened in my looooong numismatic career, and officially qualifies her as a “good sport”.

We bought two deluxe Classic Head $5s here, which I honestly believe NO ONE would expect to find at a local show like this.

We talked to a local collector about CAC submissions and reviewed a bunch of coins, but I wasn’t very optimistic about their likelihood of stickering. And of course delivering that news is never much fun.

We did a bunch of bookkeeping here delivering coins and picking up coins, which is often the case and just one more reason why this show is so productive for us.

We bought one last, late, old holdered type coin  at about 1 PM.

And then it was time to pack up and head home so we could dive directly back into our taxes, which believe me is just as terrible as it sounds. So unfortunately we’ll need to stop doing this, and start doing that right now.

EOM