The coin show was fun. There were some beautiful and valuable coins
bought and sold there, including gold ones.
Over seven hundred people came just on Saturday. I thought hard about buying the Queen
Victoria silver crown coin, but just couldn’t bring myself to spend that much
for it. Instead I bought a Victoria half crown – and then a King Edward VII and a
King George VI, both crowns, all three for less than half what the Victoria crown would
have cost. Mr. Davisson showed me a
Queen Victoria pattern crown (a design for a coin that was never minted), a
magnificent and very finely detailed piece that really belongs in a museum. Only four thousand dollars!
Quite a few people saw and
commented favorably on my display of “1,000 Years of English Money.” A member of Northwest Coin Club wants me to
refine it some more and enter it in our State Fair. I’ll think about it – but probably won’t. Each coin in my display is firmly fastened
down inside two frames, but what if someone just picks up a frame and walks
away with it? Thirty-plus years of
patient searching and buying, gone.
On the other hand, what would a thief do with
it? These aren’t American dimes and quarters
they could spend in a vending machine – which is what happens to many
collections a burglar takes, which is why an amazingly valuable coin will turn
up in someone’s pocket change. Which is
why collectors routinely examine their pocket change.
2 comments:
Coin collecting sounds like fun!
I'm glad the coin show went well.
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