crowded due to Veterans Day Holiday?

I had a great day. It was Veterans Day and the start of the Baltimore Coin Convention and I was off of work, and off to Baltimore{about an hour north of me here in Calvert cty Maryland}..A beautiful 75 degree day, the last of the fall leaf color changes..just glorious. I parked a few blocks away and enjoyed a pleasant walk to the convention. The place was hopping..and huge..tons of tables and stuff to do. I checked out the pre-viewing of a few coins in Bowers and Merenas auction..I took the time to hold the finest known 1913 Liberty nickel{how cool is that} walked the bourse for 3 hours looking for a final coin I need for 1 set that I've been working on-with no luck. I did see 2 of them, both at too high a grade/price tag..$10,000 is not in my coin budget..finally, after a few smaller purchases of 4 xf-au standing liberty quarters for my circulated album set..and a couple of full liberty Barber quarters that were too nice to pass up, I ran into a nice woman{still don't know her name} who also had a table at the Ocean City coin show in October. We recognized eachother, chatted a bit and I asked if she had run across the coin I was searching for..she hadn't --but she showed me a nice NGC MS63 1917-D Obverse Walker that would make a slight upgrade for my set.We worked out a deal{my 1924 $20 St Gaudens MS64 which I had brought for this purpose and $500 for a swap....done!!} So I did not get my final coin I needed/wanted but I did get some nice fillers, a nice upgrade and some pleasant coin talk which I love.

PS: NGC needs to get some different people at their on-site grading booth. I was a little disappointed that the NCS person essentially wouldn't even look at any coins, and didn't seem to know anything. I was twicw sent to one person by another and then back again..plus they were short with you and borderline rude. I had brought 7 coins for regrade check and around $8,000 worth of coins to be conserved and then re-holdered since they have been toning in the NGC holders. Well thats around $900 they didn't get today from me..and may never get.The workers seemed tired and aggitated and it was just the morning of the first day....they need new jobs away from the public

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