Well it has been a few weeks since I posted anything here. I stopped at a Cruise in on Friday and ended up buying dinner and a few beers. Total change: $1.46. I got 1987 and 97 quarters and a couple of State quarters: South Carolina (D) and Maine (P), 4 dimes a nickle and a cent. Nothing too exciting.

Last Sunday I had a chance to stop in at the PAN show in Pittsburg. Things were pretty slow that afternoon, although most of the dealers I spoke with said that they had done pretty well on Friday and Saturday. I'd say about 10% of the dealers had already packed up and taken off by noon on Sunday but I still had fun chatting with a few and did some shopping. I picked up 5 very well circulated Canadian large cents, a couple of nicer ones, an 1860 Indian Head cent and a 1909 to add to my small cent collection and a couple of large cents (1844 F and 1856 VG). Not too bad. I also picked up a book on Canadian tokens so I can read up on them, I've been picking up a few.

I didn't find any ancients that interested me at this show, the pickings were slim and the prices high for what there were. I only found one dealer with a decent pick bin (now to me, a decent pick bin has a nice variety of older US and world coins at low prices, there were some folks with bins that were heavy on AU recent US coins, but they just don't float my boat.) I picked up a George III 1806 half penny, a Bank of Montreal Un Sous token, a couple of Vichy France coins (love that battle axe!) and a Silver Jubilee Crown of Elizabeth II. I was sorry to have missed the events on Saturday at the show which included a presentation on ACE.