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Thursday: Aaaah the MidAmerica – notable for its fine location at the Renaissance Hotel here in scenic Schaumburg, Illinois, and also for the fact that at this show...

Prologue: Greetings fellow numismatist!  (Though I have recently learned that our readership includes non-numismatists as well – ranging from those who like travelogues to people who are simply...

Prologue: It is now 4:40 AM and I have been awake for about an hour and a half, first tripping over the luggage that I arranged carefully right...

In our last Coin Commentary (gee, time sure does fly around here) we reprinted a review of the new Whitman Encyclopedia of Colonial and Early American Coins by Wayne Homren....

Day 1: For those of you who complain that we always say that every show is a “blockbuster”, today is your lucky day:  On Thursday we sold absolutely...

Prologue: If this is Tuesday, we must be off to Ohio for the surprisingly long CSNS show. Amazingly, we’ll have PNG dealer set-up late this afternoon, PNG day...

Prologue: We’re off this morning for what figures to be a fun, though brief, copper-centric show in a place we certainly don’t get to very often, but which...

Recently Wayne Homren, Editor of the fantastic and highly recommended E-sylum (which, in their own words, is described as “a weekly electronic newsletter published by the Numismatic Bibliomania...

Prologue: It is 3:41 AM, and I have now been up for an hour and 20 minutes, just enough time to pack, eat breakfast, tool around on the...

Day 1: It was a full day on Thursday, which included an event at my daughter’s school early in the AM, followed by an extremely painful dentist appointment,...