Coin Show 🪙

April 8th I took the day off work to attend the Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association 71st Annual Spring Convention!

^{Image credit: pnna.org}

To translate… that’s a coin show. 😄

I messaged ALL of my close proximity Hive silver stacking friends to see if anyone else could attend!

They could not… 😭

So instead, I convinced one of my best high school friends and his wife to join me on my coin adventure. 😃

^{**One coin collector and TWO tag-alongs. Beforehand we stopped for pizza lunch.*}

The show had approximately 85 vendors.

^{**Looking left from the main entrance.*}

^{**Looking right from the main entrance.*}

There were ZERO weird and random bars or rounds.

^{**Sorry @fat-elvis.* 🥲}

However, there was an ENTIRE TABLE of Disney Dollars! 😍

^{**Mine are like this one.*}

Despite slim pickings for silver matching my taste, I did come home with a few items. 😃

^{**1/1000th oz of .9999 pure gold. “Produced with thin layers of 24-karat gold, Goldbacks are more than just gold notes, but also enjoy status as a voluntary form of local currency. In the case of the New Hampshire Goldbacks, the notes are acceptable voluntary currency within the Granite State.” Source*}

^{**Each year Australia’s Perth Mint releases a coin to celebrate the country’s iconic Koala. This release is the 16th in the series. The koala coins are the first I began collecting, so despite not being a huge fan of this year’s design (he looks hung over), I still wanted to add this piece to my growing collection. The coin is 1 Troy oz of .9999 pure silver.*}

The next three coins are from the Solomon Islands Pirate Queen series!

^{**All three seem very @kerrislravenhill style!* 😉 🏴‍☠️ 👑}

^{**“Anne Bonny emigrated to the United States in the early 1700’s. Here she met and married the sailor John Bonny. Through him she gained her first insights into piracy and was deeply fascinated by the new world that revealed itself to her. Eventually she met the pirate John Rackham and left John Bonny to make the seas unsafe together with Rackham. In 1720, their pirate crew was ambushed and overpowered. Rackham was executed, whereas Anne Bonny was imprisoned due to an alleged pregnancy. Anne Bonny’s final date remains uncertain to this day.”* Paraphrased from:Source}

^{**“Ching Shih was born in 1775 in a poverty-ridden society in Guangdong Province, China. To supplement her family's income, she worked as a prostitute from an early age before marrying the pirate Zheng Yi and building a strong fleet of some 1,200 ships to sail the world's oceans. A considerable 80,000 men were under her command.”* Paraphrased from: Source}

^{**“Mary Read was born illegitimate in the late 1600’s. Her widowed mother dressed Mary as a boy to replace her deceased firstborn. Since the benefits of living as a man did not escape Mary, she continued to dress up and call herself "Mark." In this way, she first served in the British military and then signed on with a merchant ship that was captured by pirates en route to the Caribbean, whom she voluntarily followed. In 1720 she met Anne Bonny and John Rackham. Numerous myths have grown up around the adventurous love story between the two women that resulted from this encounter. In 1720, the pirate crew was ambushed and overpowered. Rackham was executed. Like Anne Bonny, Mary Read was imprisoned due to an alleged pregnancy, and shortly thereafter died of a fever.”* Paraphrased from: Source}

I will keep my eyes peeled for other upcoming shows, and be knocking on some of your doors (via discord DM’s 😄) with invites to attend! 😃

*All photos are my own unless otherwise noted. Taken with an iPhone 7, April 8, 2022.