Jesse and I had an unusual day today!  We went to a large numismatic show!


Jesse is interested in collecting silver as in investment so we went specifically to look for silver “Walking Liberty” dollars from 2006.  We were able to find six of them, so he was really happy!  They’re solid silver and worth about $20 each.  We got them at this big show for $18, so that put a smile on his face.

Lots of interesting old money there, primarily from the USA.  I’m more interested in ancient coins, particularly from Roman/Greek and Biblical times.  I got to handle a Greek coin that was nearly 2,500 years old.  Sweet!


I’m a big Ben Franklin fan, he’s one of my heroes.  He was a scientist, writer, statesman, philanthropist. . . list goes on and on.  Did you know he invented the lightning rod, rocking chair and bifocals?  Or that he started our first library and fire department?

He was our ambassador to France and the French government made a coin in honor of his 300 anniversary of his birthday in 1706. So I bought a coin that has his picture on it and lightning.  It’s cool!

Other neat thing was that they had a bar of solid gold.  Nearly 2.5 pounds that we got to hold!  Worth about $30,000.  Incredible.

Also a gold nugget found in Alaska: 22 oz!

Also had some exhibits of fossils and butterflies that I also thought were really awesome.

Got to see examples of the 30 pieces of silver that paid off Judas.

And the widow’s mite!

Plus gold bars from shipwrecks!

So we had a good time.

We’re back home now.  We hope to go to see Angels and Demons in a little while with Ashley.  Kathy is enjoying a bike ride around Stone Mountain!

Groovy day!