What I found
Somewhat unsurprisingly the search for the 1924 Double Eagle at the coin shop was unsuccessful- they didn't have any 1924s but the manager gave me his card and said to call on Monday and he might have something upstairs, not on the floor.
After that, we spent some time looking at the foreign and ancient case.
Shandy wanted to look at a coin from Sicily from ~220 BCE that was about $160 but she decided the design didn't really speak to her - but it's an idea I'm going to remember for down the road. There are options there.
The things that got my attention were mostly some Hong Kong Trade dollars - an 1902 in VF35 and an 1898 in MS61 - and an 1890 Au details Japanese yen.
I loved the Japense Yen design. If it had been a nice-looking VF or XF, I probably would have gone home with it, but I couldn't forgive it for being cleaned and how flat it looked when the light hit it.
I did hold up the MS61 to Shandy and show her the spin on the luster as you tilt it and did the same with the Yen and pointed out the difference.
The VF35 trade dollar had gotten my attention first and I only later noticed the MS61 just because the VF had an almost perfectly antiqued look that made the details that remained really pop and the coin read well for the eye, even through the case.
I ultimately chose to take VF35 home, which surprised Shandy a fair bit. She said the VF is what she would have gone with, but she'd have expected me to go MS. But, while it was MS, it was MS61, and the fields were beat to heck, and I just really liked the look of the VF. So here we are:
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