A few hours in a room with a few dozen people and tons of coins.

It might seem funny, but I finally went to my first coinshow today, 2 years after getting into collecting. It has just always been my luck that when I'm at school, there's a show back home, when I'm at home, there's a local show near school.

Well today my step-father and I got up early and made the trip (2 hours each way) to a small local show. I think there were about a dozen or so dealers. We were mostly after some nice mint sets from the 1980s that we're going to pick through to find good coins to submit for filling out some registry year sets. That was a solid success. We found 13 nice sets to go through including 3 1981s, 2 1986s, 2 1989s, 2 1990s, 1992s, and 2 1993s. Depending on what we find when we take a closer look at them we may go to another show in 2 weeks (only 1 hour from home)to find more sets. The hope here is to find MS67 coins to fill the sets. Wish us luck. I'll probably be upping from a free to a paid account in a couple of days so we can start the ball rolling on some direct submissions.

I also went looking for some more nice additions to my 20th Century Type set. I found a couple of nice coins that I'll probably talk about more in later posts, probably tomorrow. (I love teaser trailers, don't you?) I can't remember for sure but I think the merc and these 2 coins together cost more than the other 10 coins currently in my type set, but some of those are likely to be replaced with upgrades in the coming months.