Road Report

We had a very clear plan on this day: Get to Devens by 8 AM, do business like crazy, and leave by noon, thus allowing MaryAnn to make her curling league game in the afternoon.

So how’d we do? Let’s find out!

1. Arrived at 8:09. Close enough.
2. Scoured the bourse floor and bought two coins almost immediately.
3. Returned that bourse case key I accidentally took home after the NH show last month to promoter Ernie Botte. Sorry about that.
4. Checked out a big group of coins at another table, honed in on 4 of them, and then bought them. Plus a bonus 5th coin from that same seller that popped up later.
5. A man came to the table, asked the price of a $20 gold piece in the case and then yelled “Holy %@#&%*@” upon hearing the answer. When MaryAnn explained to him that with gold trading at over $4,000 an ounce gold coins had gone up in value this year, he then shouted “Holy &#%#!@”. Not surprisingly, he did not buy the item.
6. Met a long time customer on the bourse floor, walked back to the table with him, did a cash and trade deal for a coin on the website that I would not have guessed was within his collecting purview.
7. Went to say hi to a dealer friend who had just arrived, saw a cool coin in his case, asked the price and snapped it up instantly.
8. Got a text from a collector I was planning to meet here saying he was ill and couldn’t make it. Then was surprised that a different collector that I did not expect to see here walked up to the table. Kind of like that Even Steven episode of Seinfeld.
9. Ended up taking 9 cool coins on consignment from him, and bought two others, including one neat ex-CRO Gold CAC:
10. Finalized a different deal with another dealer.
11. Met one last pre-arranged customer at the table, finalized a trade deal, talked about upcoming auctions and then called it a day at 12:22, meaning we were going to have to fly home.

And we did, arriving in time for MaryAnn to go to the curling club, and your author to write this blog, talk to some customers and start planning our next EB, the schedule of which will be posted at the top of this website just as soon as we know it.

EOM