....or a day at a coin show.

Saturday afternoon was such an enjoyable and stress relieving time. I normally work Saturday's, and then my weekend is Sunday and Monday. I took a day of vacation though, as there was a small coin show in Keokuk, which is about 24 miles south of me.

It's a really small show, maybe 8-10 dealers. However, there was one dealer there I hadn't seen before, he had a lot of nice currency. Unfortunately, the ones I wanted were well out of my price range, but I sure had a good time looking at them, the dealer was very nice, I told him right up front I couldn't buy, but he let me look at some anyway. He had a $5 Educational that was gorgeous (gorgeous price too as you can imagine). But we had a nice chat, and then I moved on. Oh, I did make a courtesy purchase since he was so nice, an ungraded Brazil note and an ungraded Canadian note. These are 2 notes that aren't worth much, but they're pretty, and since I've been a pressman, I really enjoy looking at them.

So then I strolled along the mall, just checking out the rest of the dealers before I got into my purchases. I was lucky in one respect, I had invited my brother to go along, but he had to go out of town. So he gave me some money and a list. Right now his projects are making a couple of state quarter sets for his wife's grandsons, and he's doing a couple of President sets. So he need some P's of each, so I got to choose some nice ones for him. One dealer had a nice selection of state quarters and prezzies, so I got all the quarters he needed and 2 of the dollars.

Then when that was finished, the same dealer had some ungraded foreign currency in 2x2's so I looked through those. I picked a 1953 Great Britain crown, a Canadian half, some Austrian schillings. These are things I like, but don't really want to spend the money for top graded items. So I'm going to make a few sets, just nice ungraded coins and see what I can do with them.

My major purchase of the day was an 1876CC Seated Liberty dime. I gave full VG price for it. Now my dilemma is twofold; first, is it a true VG, the obverse I think definitely is, but I'm not so sure about the revers. Secondly then, I'm debating on whether I want to slab it and put it in my CC sig set. I'm waffleing on this, so I'm going to add a collage pic of it, any comments are welcome.

All in all, a very enjoyable stroll at the show, it sure relieved some stress from a couple of busy weeks at work.