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June 5-7, 2008: The Baltimore Coin & Currency Convention

Appetizer: It’s 3:47 AM, and I’ve been up for well over an hour now, giving me ample time to eat a medium-sized piece of toast with sour cherry...

May 24-31 2008: The Long Beach Coin & Currency Expo

Prologue: It won’t be long now, as we are scheduled to arrive at the offices of Ira and Larry Goldberg sometime early this afternoon, bracing for the anticipated...

May 19, 2008: My Love Affair with a Fat, Old Woman

An Original Work of Numismatic Non-Fiction by Dave Wnuck. Shhhhh. Don’t tell my wife, but I’m in love with another woman. Fact is, I’ve been infatuated with her...

May 8-9, 2008: The Early American Coppers Convention in Irving, TX

Day 1: I’ll have to type this quietly, as I am currently sitting in the “Colonial Coin Happening” (one of several on various copper topics going on concurrently)...

April 15-19, 2008: The Central States Numismatic Society Convention in Rosemont, IL

Preview: Well, I’m off on another adventure today, jetting off to scenic Rosemont, Illinois for a fun filled week of coin dealering. And lord knows we’re due –...

March 31, 2008: An Ode to . . . John Agre(?) by Dave Wnuck

This Coin Commentary may sound nakedly self-promotional, but I’d like to tell the folks out there a little about my business partner and the half owner of Coin...

February 26-March 2, 2008: The Whitman Baltimore Expo

Prelude: It’s been a fairly full day so far, as I’ve been up for hours, traded emails with some dealer friends (at 4:00 AM, which must indicate something...

February 13-16, 2008: The Long Beach Coin & Currency Expo

Day 1: This week hasn’t gone exactly as we drew it up. Life intervened as they say, and what was intended to be 8 days out here in...

February 9, 2008: Colonial Coin Collecting Q & A, Part 2

Waaaaaay back in August of 2006 we wrote part 1 of this Q & A with every intention of adding Part 2 eventually. Well, as it turns out,...

January 15-16, 2008: Stack’s Americana Auction

Because we hadn’t quite had our fill of coins at the FUN show, we were delighted that Stack’s had scheduled their annual Americana auction (plus some cool world...