at the coin show and sorting through my stash.

My weekend last Saturday and Sunday certainly helped with stress relief. I normally work Saturdays, and then have Sunday and Monday off. Since there was a local coin show 22 miles away over the weekend, plus a big drawing at our local minor league baseball team game on Sunday, I couldn't resist taking a day of vacation on Saturday to go to the coin show.

Since money is tight for me, I was not planning to make any major (over $100) purchases, but I was looking for nice VF to AU coins for my ungraded sets. Maybe I should describe my ungraded sets, the best way of putting it is, they're sets of coins I like, but am not willing to pay a premium price for top graded coins. Examples include Liberty nickels, the Seated Liberty coins, Mercury dimes, and foreign coins from Europe and the Americas dated 1953 (my birth year). I still lean towards coins from the 1800's for US coinage, I guess because of my interest in the Wild West.

My brother couldn't attend with me, so he gave me a list of the Prezzies and state quarters he still needed for the sets he's putting together. So I got to buy some coins (a whole $7.60 worth) with someone else's money for a change. I found everything he needed except the Harrison P.

I wound up, after looking through 3 dishfulls of Morgan dollars, an EF 1900-O Morgan for my ungraded Morgan set. Of my own money, I spent a whopping $20. The stress relief came in by relaxing and not hurrying through the coins, I tried to note differences between grades, I feel we can never get too much experience in grading coins. I also looked through a lot of Indian cents, but mostly all of them were at best VG, so I didn't really see any I liked. I plan on doing a graded Indian cent set in the future, but with my interest in the West, I can't pass up even an ungraded set of them.

All in all, an enjoyable weekend. The game was great on Sunday, so I was ready to go back to work on Tuesday.

Attached is the obverse of the Morgan I bought.