Road Report

A quick turnaround between shows is one thing, needing to totally changeover our inventory, prepare coins for photography by polishing and degunking slabs, organize a bunch of coins we planned to deliver here and compile 4 different spreadsheets during the brief interim is quite another. Fortunately, and as well documented here, your author requires very little sleep and thus had plenty of time to get all that done and STILL roll into Devens before 8 AM.

Where we set up quickly, scoured the floor for cool coins, found a bunch, talked to some local dealer friends about various deals and then returned to the table just as the crowd started to file in. And believe me when I tell you the filing was robust.

Sufficiently so that I remarked to MaryAnn that it was more crowded in Devens than it had been in Baltimore.  Now, I need to be clear – the total number of attendees was surely higher in Baltimore, but the crowd here was big enough to fill the aisles in a way we did not see during the Whitman Show. At all.

And a lot of the people who did attend were seemingly here to do business, allowing us to sell a bunch of coins, buy some cool ones, do a trade and take several coins on consignment. I also had some interesting conversations with customers about their collecting directions, what to keep, what to sell, what to consign, etc., which I always enjoy since I think I’ve seen enough through the years to at least have an informed opinion.

With the day concluding with a couple of late sales before we packed up and headed home where we can finally get some rest for a few hours before the start of the first auction in which we will be bidding this week.

EOM