World's Fair of Money, Day 2, part 1
Fri, Aug. 13th, 2010 02:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scarlettinaYesterday morning, I met my friend OP for breakfast. We chatted about elongated collecting, about some issues related to The Elongated Collectors, and then we headed down to the bourse. I checked in at the TEC table and foiund our 82-year-old president about to hand-write a catalog of the items donated for our auction. I quickly volunteered to catalog items in an Excel spreadsheet instead. I took the donations and sped off to my room to create said spreadsheet; printed it out this morning for use at this afternoon's meeting.
After I returned the items to the president, I wandered off to visit the competitive exhibits. There were only three exhibits specifically focused on elongated coins; other exhibits included them in one fashion or another. Some of the general exhibits were quite interesting--the one on coins featuring cats was a favorite though, now that I think about it, I suspect this one was a repeat of something I saw a couple of years ago. There were creative entries featuring clipped coins and strike errors. There was a beautiful exhibit featuring wampum and a squash blossom necklace (similar to this) made of American coinage. Must get a photo of that item, now that I think of it.
I then attended the Token and Medal Society meeting. There, as I was hoping to, I ran into my buddy DS from whom I learned most of what I know about American tokens. he's a collector, dealer, and a banjo player. We left the meeting after the club business was complete but before the lecturer got too far into his lecture about neoclassical medallic art (mostly Napoleanic); the guy was a terrible speaker. Instead, DS treated me to lunch, we caught up a bit, and then wandered over to the most prominent token dealer on the bourse floor. I acquired a few nifty elongateds along with one extra-nifty, unpunched NYC subway token (and therefore an error!). I was strong and didn't buy the big fat book o' token collecting that I've wanted for a while now; I had to exercise financial restraint (I did more of that this morning and it was difficult).
The evening, the lovely evening, was spent with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
clea_s and her husband J. I want to write about it in some detail but I need to run off for an event now. Watch for Day 2, part 2 later....
After I returned the items to the president, I wandered off to visit the competitive exhibits. There were only three exhibits specifically focused on elongated coins; other exhibits included them in one fashion or another. Some of the general exhibits were quite interesting--the one on coins featuring cats was a favorite though, now that I think about it, I suspect this one was a repeat of something I saw a couple of years ago. There were creative entries featuring clipped coins and strike errors. There was a beautiful exhibit featuring wampum and a squash blossom necklace (similar to this) made of American coinage. Must get a photo of that item, now that I think of it.
I then attended the Token and Medal Society meeting. There, as I was hoping to, I ran into my buddy DS from whom I learned most of what I know about American tokens. he's a collector, dealer, and a banjo player. We left the meeting after the club business was complete but before the lecturer got too far into his lecture about neoclassical medallic art (mostly Napoleanic); the guy was a terrible speaker. Instead, DS treated me to lunch, we caught up a bit, and then wandered over to the most prominent token dealer on the bourse floor. I acquired a few nifty elongateds along with one extra-nifty, unpunched NYC subway token (and therefore an error!). I was strong and didn't buy the big fat book o' token collecting that I've wanted for a while now; I had to exercise financial restraint (I did more of that this morning and it was difficult).
The evening, the lovely evening, was spent with
clea_s and her husband J. I want to write about it in some detail but I need to run off for an event now. Watch for Day 2, part 2 later....