Welcome to the Saturday edition of my comments. As the show winds down I hope you can reflect upon having had good times with old friends and meeting new ones. Before you know it the next Baltimore Show will be on hand—always exciting, always worth looking forward to.

In the meantime, Happy lots of things from me, including Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year’s, and perhaps even Groundhog Day (I haven’t checked the calendar on that).

How fortunate we are to be in numismatics. The other day I had a conversation with a leading dealer who commented that, strangely enough, in numismatics auction consignments and the acquisition of good properties remain a challenge. In contrast, he said, in the art market, especially for modern issues, stuff is appearing left and right, popping up all over the place, with lots of sellers and very few buyers, at least not at anything near the prices of a few years ago.

None of us are enjoying the current economy, and certainly money is scarcer, investors are not as often seen, and there are layoffs and downsizing. However, as has been shown by any number of auction presentations of scarce and rare material—the Dan Holmes Collection of copper cents held by the Goldbergs, the Krause Collection of Obsolete Paper Money and the Americana Sale of medals by Stack’s, and other events—basically scarce and rare numismatic material is eagerly sought, often at record prices.

Time flies, and before long I’ll be “meeting” you in this space again, at the next Whitman Show in March. Until then, the best of everything.