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November 13-16, 2024: The Whitman Baltimore Expo
November 13: Day 1 In yet another example of why being a coin dealer may be sliiiiightly less glamorous then you think, Team CRO was up at 2:30...
October 24-26, 2024: The New Hampshire Coin & Currency Expo
October 24th: Dealer Set-Up With the show scheduled to open to dealers at 3 PM on Thursday, Team CRO arrived in NH at about 2:45, just in time...
September 29, 2024: The Devens, MA Coin Show
Let the record show that on a beautiful fall morning (as evidenced by the pumpkin display in our show photo) Team CRO rolled into Devens for our first...
September 10-14, 2024: The Great American Show in Tampa, FL
Prologue: Recently another dealer asked me why I did not write a Road Report Prologue before the recent ANA show, to which I responded that I really can’t...
September 2, 2024: Great Moments in CRO
#1. The Denarium We thought we’d start a new series of articles on the site in which we describe in detail a great moment in the history of...
August 5-10, 2024: The ANA World’s Fair of Monday in Rosemont, IL
August 5th: Day 1 Rather than arrive here in Rosemont in a civilized manner on Sunday or even Saturday as some of our coin dealer colleagues did, CRO...
July 1, 2024: CRO’s ‘June by the Numbers’
We are delighted to present yet another installment of CRO’s ‘June by the Numbers’ in which we highlight the month numerically starting right now: Two: Shows we attended,...
June 23, 2024: The Devens, MA Coin Show
We were delighted to see that it was raining here on Sunday morning for two reasons: Rain can boost coin show attendance, and I was not missing any...
June 12-15, 2024: The Whitman Baltimore Expo
June 12: Day 1 Good morning coin collector, coin dealer, industry professional or someone who just reads random internet blogs and welcome to our first RR from the...
June 6, 2024: Stream of Coin-sciousness
We continue to be amazed and dismayed (dismazed?) at the coin show schedule which has us extremely busy for the first 3 months of the year, and then...