Road Report

With a reformulated inventory, a new checkbook (since we wrote all the checks in the old one in Baltimore) and renewed enthusiasm, Team CRO rolled into Devens at about 8 AM and quickly set up our table.

At which point I casually looked up and was stunned to see a dealer friend who was in Baltimore Saturday but gave no indication he was planning to come to this show.

But the more the merrier from my perspective, since every single person who comes to show is a potential buyer of a CRO coin, a potential seller of something we might want, a possible trade partner, someone who might birddog a coin for us, etc., etc. And that’s kind of how it worked here, as we ended splitting some cool coins, including three of the exact same issue in all different grades.

We also found a couple of other choice type coins here, though none of these were ready for market quite yet. Pretty soon though.

Somewhere in there we also sold one coin, though for a minute there I thought something really big was going to happen as a collector asked for an expensive coin we actually had in the case. Alas, we didn’t make the sale here – maybe it will happen online.

In addition to a decent commercial day on the bourse, I was also pleased to experience the following comments from show attendees:

• A collector told me I looked “refreshed”
• A long time industry friend told me I was “always smiling”
• A show organizer told another person that he did not recognize him because he had gained weight, and then said “you used to look like him” while gesturing at me. I can’t recall the last time I was the skinny example in one of those comparisons, but I’ll take it.

So I thought that’s a pretty good result overall as we packed up and headed home for some long overdue R&R starting right now.