This and That

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Annual coin show time and my Winter project gets off to an early start.

 

Surprise! I actually made the journal entry for this week.

 

The annual coin show--at least the one I always attend--starts next Friday. I always enjoy the walk down to the Nevada State Museum (the old Carson City Mint) for this show. It gives me a chance to look over the CC collection yet again. Always with pleasure and delight when I discover something new. There should be 38 dealers if everyone arrives. I must remember to stop at the bank for cash this year.

 

I had decided that I would spend the Winter organizing and grading my raw mint and proof sets. After a reading Halperin's book on grading (How to Grade U.S. Coins by James L. Halperin) the design for a 5x8 index card just naturally fell into place. One side is a summary of his scoring method along with coin identification and third party grading results. The other side contains purchase, storage location and sales information. These cards are pretty much a duplicate of database information that I keep on my computer, but just in case....

 

On the collecting front, I really should know better than to order coins when the ANA show is in progress. None of my purchases have even been shipped yet. Everyone was in Boston. I hope they arrive this coming week as next week I've got jury duty. I sure that will tend to slow everything down.

 

Enough for now, happy collecting to everyone.

 

Phil

 

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