My Fun Exhibiting Experience - Indian Cent Set (And Results)

As many of you know from a prior post, I did an Educational Exhibit at the FUN show in Orlando. The title was "A Unique Indian cent Registry Set", that provided several interesting facts about Indian Head cents, spread throughout five cases showing my Registry set. My goal was to hopefully provide something new for people to learn about Indian Head cents, regardless of their experience with this coin. I believe I accomplished that.

I also explained right at the beginning of the exhibit what makes my set "Unique". The fact that the set is currently ranked #8 in the PCGS Registry is NOT what makes it unique. A few collectors have put sets together where every coin has a CAC sticker. A few other collectors have put sets together where every coin has Rick Snow's Eagle Eye Photo Seal (my Exhibit explained what is a CAC sticker and a Photo Seal). But my set is unique in that it's the only set ever put together where EVERY coin has both a CAC sticker AND an Eagle Eye Photo Seal.

Redundant? Absolutely! But I explained that while CAC and Rick Snow look at the same various factors to determine if a coin merits their sticker, they place different weights from each other on those various factors. I explain that in my opinion Rick places a greater weight on Strike and Die State than CAC, and also seems a bit stricter with carbon, particularly with coins in high grades like 66. On the other hand, CAC seems a bit stricter on color originality, and possibly luster. My conclusion is that a coin that merits BOTH stickers has the best of both worlds!

My exhibit did NOT win any judged prize, but I did win "The People's Choice" Award. So while the judges did "technical grading" (lol), apparently some of the regular people walking through the Educational Exhibit area liked my exhibit. If you attended FUN, went through all of the exhibits, and voted for my exhibit, thanks. But more thanks for looking at my exhibit, and most importantly, for taking the time to introduce yourselves, and allowing us the opportunity to get to know a little bit more about each other.

I have heard that a video was made of my exhibit, and when that person gets home and has time, they'll post it on YouTube. Once it's on YouTube, I'll update this post with that hotlink. My guess is it'll be easier to read the text in my exhibit in that video, compared to the photos I took.

Steve