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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...

January 5-13, 2008: The FUN Show in Orlando, FL

Preview: It is 5:57 AM here at Logan Airport in Boston – which of course means that it is time for our free FUN Preview which will begin...

December 26, 2007: The Year in Review

As another exciting numismatic year winds to a close, it is appropriate that we look back and reflect on the new friends we made, the coins we bought...

November 29-December 2, 2007: The Bay State Show & C4 Convention in Boston, MA

Day 1: I didn’t get home until about midnight on Thursday, which may explain why I failed, for the first time in recent memory, to get a Road...

November 13-17, 2007: The Whitman Baltimore Expo

Day 1: As promised, our first Road Report from the Baltimore Show (actually from the Stack’s auction) begins right now: It was an early start to the day,...

November 15, 2007: How Come the Coins Went so Cheap?

I got an email from a customer the other day who had been watching the Stack’s ‘Amherst & Waccubuc’ catalog colonial session online and seeing (with a handful...