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April 22-24, 2010: The Early American Coppers Convention in Annapolis, MD

Day 1: This is how Day 1 was supposed to begin:  Wake up at 3:30 AM, finish packing, have a leisurely breakfast, make sure I haven’t forgotten anything,...

March 24-27, 2010: The ANA National Money Show in Ft. Worth, TX

Prologue: Hello fellow numismatic enthusiast, collector, dealer or industry professional – Note that I am going to have to type this quietly so that I do not wake...

March 15, 2010: Corrections to the Whitman Encyclopedia

As our readers may remember, it was almost exactly one year ago when we wrote a Coin Commentary containing a review of Whitman’s then-new Encyclopedia of Colonial and Early...

March 2-7, 2010: The Whitman Baltimore Expo

Day 1: It was an interesting and very long Tuesday, as I woke up at 3 AM to finish packing and then catch the first flight from New...

January 30-February 6, 2010: The Long Beach Coin & Currency Expo

Prologue: It seems like just a few days ago that we were in NY, viewing lots, discussing coins with the Stack’s team, eating enough hot pastrami for a...

January 25-27, 2010: Stack’s Americana Auction in New York, Part II

While John did his lot viewing at Stack’s on Friday last week, I, David J. Wnuck, headed out this Monday for the car + train trip into Manhattan....

January 22, 2010: Stack’s Americana Auction in New York, Part I

Good morning everyone, and welcome to this special bonus edition of the RR recapping my one-day jaunt down to NYC for some intensive lot viewing at Stack’s.  This...

January 4-10, 2010: The FUN Show in Orlando, FL

Prologue: Good morning everyone, and welcome to this FUN preview, our first new RR in about 45 days (a sufficiently long period that your author forgot how to...

December 31, 2009: The Year in Review

In the most vivid illustration yet that ‘Time Flies’, we have now reached the end of 2009, our 4th full year together as CRO and, by any objective...

November 25, 2009: So you want to be a numismatic cataloger, eh?

Well, so did we, which may explain why team CRO is listed in this year’s C4 (Colonial Coin Collectors Club) catalog under the “Cataloging by . . .”...