WAYNE'S NUMISMATIC DIARY: 2026 ANA, PART 2

My last 2026 ANA Diary covered only my first day of the show in Pittsburgh - Tuesday, August 25. Much of that day was spent visiting with current and potential advertising sponsors, and I only made it thru part of my extensive list. I resumed my quest on subsequent days, often having to miss talks and meetings I planned to attend. I even missed an NBS event, the Symposium. But it was a productive, if tiring show.

Here's the T-shirt I wore Tuesday - a retirement gift from neighbors.

The rest of this installment covers Wednesday the 26th. I stayed at my hotel in the morning, working a bit on The E-Sylum, but mostly reviewing a collection of J.S.G. Boggs material I wanted to make an offer on. There was a lot of material, and the hotel bedspread was a convenient work surface to spread out and organize it. I also made a side trip downstairs to sell a box of excess books to numismatic literature dealer Jeff Starck. We missed seeing the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile, although it was back in front of my hotel by evening.

Token and Medal Society
After getting lunch the main event of the day was the Token and Medal Society (TAMS) General Meeting where I was scheduled to give a presentation on the Heeren Brothers company, longtime Pittsburgh makers of medals, tokens and jewelry.

My laptop set up and ready to go

Dave Schenkman introducing me

Not numismatic, but I couldn't resist including the story of the Silver Nose.

Crowd shot

I met with a number of people afterwards, including these two old friends from the Western Pennsylvania Numismatic Society (WPNS).

Larry Dziubek, Wayne Homren, Richard Crosby

Richard Crosby and I stepped out onto the 2nd floor deck where I snapped these photos of the Allegheny River.

Back on the bourse floor, I stopped to see this exhibit.

The Colonial Coin Collectors Club (C4) Exhibit

Walking Around
I managed to meet with additional current and potential advertising sponsors that afternoon before heading back to my hotel to change clothes for dinner. I was soon on my way to the TAMS Banquet, the first one I'd ever attended. Who could say no to Fogo de Chao?

Here are some sights along the way and at the restaurant.

The domed building at the end of the street view is the Keenan Building — now Midtown Towers. I used to work in an office across the street from it, and always imagined that penthouse as my evil scientist lair. Way cool.

The relief sculpture is The Lassoer, on display at Fogo de Chao.

The banquet was delightful. I sat near old friends Dave Schenkman and Eric Schena, and between TAMS Journal editor Greg Burns and medal researcher Harry Waterson. Great conversation all around, and the meal was excellent.

Harry spent a career in television and was testing equipment for an inaugural broadcast from the Grand Old Opry in Nashville when a young 20-something singer sat down to talk with him. She told him all about the history of the building, which was originally a church, later expended to a full auditorium. She was very helpful and friendly. Her name? Dolly Parton.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
WAYNE'S NUMISMATIC DIARY: 2026 ANA, PART 1 (https://www.coinbooks.org/v29/esylum_v29n35a16.html)

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