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Day 1: Let the typing commence: Today began in a relaxed and leisurely way, starting with a harsh alarm clock ring at 3:45 AM, a trip over a...

If this is Sunday, we must be back in New England after another successful coin show, another interesting coin auction, and another opportunity to talk coins with another...

Day 1: It was travel day today, as I woke up at a tidy 3:45 AM, packed heroically (i.e. threw everything into a suitcase indiscriminately), jumped in a...

Is what I saw during a recent visit to view a customer’s collection. He graciously invited me to travel to meet him and view his coins, and, of...

We planned to bring home a lot of loot, and that’s exactly what we did. From the 3 PM kick-off of the Ford session through some early Americana,...

Day 1: I don’t want to get all emotional here in the Road Report section of this site, but today marked the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. That’s...

A Surprisingly Lively Affair I don’t have official figures, but I’m guessing this was an all-time EAC attendance record. The bourse floor, often reminiscent of a deserted hotel...

Let’s say you have a coin in your collection that really isn’t up to snuff. And I don’t mean one that is too low grade, or not expensive...

There is a measure that we numismatists use to gauge the quality of a coin show: If your lunch is longer than your time on the bourse floor,...

Day 1: The alarm went off at a most unwelcome 4:00 AM this day, signaling the official kick-off to the Spring Baltimore show, 2007. And it was hectic...