January 31, 2025: Stream of Coin-sciousness
The first few weeks of every numismatic year are always exciting for us, with two big shows back to back, some typically exhausting travel, a lotta late nights and early mornings, etc. Culminating with the NYINC which continues through the Sunday that week. And as reported extensively on this site, both shows were incredible for us this year.
What was not reported was that your author started to feel like he had slight cold coming on by the end of the NY show, which ended up being some sort of horrendous flu-like thing which I am just now getting over nearly two (2) weeks later. Just in time for MaryAnn to get it. So that’s been fun.
Also, when we returned home from NY, we walked into a 43 degree house since our boiler had gone out while we were away. And the crack repair guys are STILL fiddling with it as I type this, which means that we have either been cold, extremely cold, or at a local hotel intermittently ever since.
Throw a whole bunch of Stack’s Bowers, Heritage and many smaller auctions and a super-busy Early Bird into the mix during all this and it has been a pretty wild month for us. Still, it beats working.
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You know what would make this month even more exciting? That’s right – delivery issues, with 3 different 6-figure boxes all going missing in transit at the same time this month.
Editor’s note: I’m not saying that a mail truck carrying our packages flipped over as seen in the picture at the top of this article, that is merely a symbolic image intended to represent deliveries gone awry. On the other hand, I kinda think I see a CRO box being partially crushed under the roof. Hmmmm.
The good news is that as of today everything eventually got where it was supposed to go, unscathed, including several USPS overnight packages that took 10 frickin’ days to arrive.
It’s interesting – we have some customers who hate the USPS and insist on Fedex, and an equal number who feel the opposite. We’ll ship by whatever method people want as long as it conforms with our insurance requirements, but I’d recommend patience for all recipients waiting for packages by any method, as pretty much everything is moving slower now than at anytime in my 20+ years of doing this.
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What about the actual coins? We’ve already sold some amazing things this month, on and off the website, but we’ve bought a lot of cool new ones too. Like this for example:
So we are officially wicked excited about what’s coming as we start carefully constructing, organizing, sorting and describing the coins in our next EB. So you might want to keep an eye out for that.
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And at some point soon we will be activating the CRO shopping cart on this site, which means that you will be able to order coins on this site without calling or emailing us. Unless you want to, in which case you can keep doing it the old fashioned way.
EOM
