The May show was kind of a usual show, located in a large mall. There are about 70 odd tables, including 20 or so stamp dealers. Attendance was about average as the real season in South Florida is over and most of the snowbirds have gone north.

Mutt purchased three duplicates, quite nice Mexican 20 centavos; 1939,1941 and 1943. The last two were unc according the Jeff. He also added one last ¼ rupee from India, which was on his want list and although very common, he had just missed it, up to this time. It was a WWII issue from Bombay, India, the large head variety of George VI with the dot on the reverse to denote Bombay. The Calcutta issue has a "c" on the reverse.

After covering all the show, Mutt sat down in front of Jeff's table, to show him his new acquisitions, when two nice senior citizen ladies inquired of Jeff, if he was interested in buying some U.S. silver coins. The price of silver has been considerable up for the past two months, reaching near $8., only to tumble back done in the past week, or so. Jeff thought he knew the market, but was off a little which may explain why the ladies decided to show him the accumulation of one of the "gals". Part of her life story included living in New York. Her family came from Greece and she had made a trip back to the old country in 1964. She had a small group of the coins used in change at the time of her visit. No real interest to coin collectors, so Jeff said give them to your grandchildren. Since she had never been married, she had none, but kept them anyway. In the lot was a bronze token which Mutt had never seen before. The lady read the Greek inscription as Telephone Money with a horizontal slot between the words. The other side had two slots with three large letters between; OTE which stands for the Greek Telephone Company. Since Mutt was showing so much interest in the token, the kind lady presented it to him as a gift. Mutt with thanks, said he would do some research on the token and put it up on his internet site, which might be her fifteen minutes of fame. She was delighted.

Jeff finished the coin transactions and the lady was very satisfied, saying to her friend "now I can take you to lunch". Jeff had over paid a little as he later found out the going rate for bullion coins was 3.7 x face, not the 4 he paid. Of course he had not gone over all the dates or rechecked the conditions, which were very much average circulated. Anyway a deal is a deal. You win some and you lose some. All part of a Sunday coin show.

Mutt and Jeff are active members of the Ft. Lauderdale Coin Club in Florida.