Southern New England Coin Club Show In Hartford, Connecticut

About 35 tables.
Ernest and Jurek from Monarchy auctions attend this one.
Also some dealers from the NY area.

Last time the kitchen at the Polish National Home was open for breakfast and Jurek said they make really good pancakes.

Cool. It is about 1 1/2 hour drive for me. It was worth it last time I went.

There was not too much rain from Kyle so I drove down to the show in Hartford this morning. The parking lot was jammed and so I parked down the street a couple of blocks. The tables were busy. I saw a very nice Henry VIII front-facing groat, but it was marked $450 and I knew I couldn't swing it even after negotiating a discount. Also I saw a fairly nice French feudal teston from Besançon, but it wasn't iirresistible. Also a fairly nice 1701 Louis XIV ecu caught my eye.

I hadn't eaten breakfast and took a break to eat lunch at the restaurant downstairs from about 12:30-1pm. When I came back upstairs many of the dealers were packing up already! So really didn't have to make any tough decisions and I ended up driving home empty-handed, which was best for my checkbook anyway. Still I had a good time talking with dealers and looking at some neat ancient gold pieces- there was an Antoninus Pius gold aureus in a slab with an incredible high relief portrait and a less common reverse - two kids in cornucopias. Nice to dream about.