Road Report

Let’s recap the show with a series of CRObservations:

It was absolutely freezing when we headed out to the show in the morning, something like 6 degrees and windy. This would have been more tolerable had I worn a coat and hat, but I never bothered to look at the forecast and assumed it was going to be around 35, which come to think of it used to happen to me with frequency in college.

Maybe related to the above, attendance was a little bit lackluster, though as this was the first December Devens show we’ve attended here in years and maybe it’s always like this at this time?

While we always scour the bourse floor looking for cool coins, on this day we did it with a purpose, looking for a coin or two to slot into specific spots on our upcoming Early Bird. And I am delighted to report that we were successful in that endeavor, mostly since the slots we were trying to fill were relatively mainstream, and required the kind of coins one might have reasonably expected to find here.

We saw a bunch of regular customers at the table and did some kind of deal with just about all of them, both of the pre-planned and totally unexpected variety.

Aside from our EB slot filling acquisitions, we also snapped up a couple of cool project coins that will now join our grading and CACing queue to be revealed at some unspecified future date. Possibly way in the future.

We gave away a bunch of hats.

I almost bought two epilogue coins (i.e. the ones you see after you have already packed up to leave and are walking out the door). Alas, we couldn’t quite get to the seller’s asking prices.

But even without a last late deal, it was a productive day for us on the buying and selling side, and a successful last show of the year here in Devens.

EOM