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WAYNE'S NUMISMATIC DIARY: SEPTEMBER 14, 2014Tuesday, September 9, 2014 was the latest gathering of my northern Virginia numismatic social group, Nummis Nova. Howard Daniel and I were the hosts. We picked Reston Town Center as the location and chose an Italian restaurant called Il Fornaio. Neither of us had been there before, so it was going to be an adventure. Howard scouted the place in advance to make our reservation. It LOOKED very nice. The food, we learned, not so much. More later. I picked the theme: "things that USED to be worth a lot more." Purchases that weren't what you thought they were, things bought at a market peak, etc. Painful memories perhaps, but good conversation starters. Gene Brandenburg wrote: I'm bringing a roll of 1950-D nickels that used to be worth $1500. in the 1960's. Dave's bringing a bucket full of Kruggerands... I was a little afraid people might have trouble finding the place. GPS is only of moderate use when you have to park in a garage and then walk. But the table was full when I arrived about 6:30. I sat next to Roger Burdette. Other attendees were Gene, Dave Schenkman, Joe Levine, Chris Neuzil, Eric Schena, Jon Radel, Mike Packard, Wayne Herndon, Julian Leidman, Howard and Steve Bishop. Aaron Packard arrived and took the last open seat, between me and Steve. Gene Brandenburg took a few pictures with his cell phone. Thanks!
Roger, Wayne Homren, Steve, Joe, Dave
On left: Wayne Homren, Steve, Julian, On right: Wayne Herndon, Mike Packard, Jon Radel, Eric Schena As usual, a number of interesting numismatic items were passed around the table before dinner. Dave Schenkman writes: Here are pictures of the aluminum token I passed around Tuesday. It was issued by the Boston & Maine Y.M.C.A. in Rotterdam Junction, New York. I have tokens from several Railroad Y.M.C.A.s but have never seen another with a Brunswick Balke Collender Company reverse.
Dave also displayed three great 1740 silver medals. He writes: They were issued in conjunction with a jubilee in Nuremberg celebrating the 300th anniversary of the discovery of typography
My dish was OK. Trying to save calories and money, I just ordered a chicken breast (although I've long forgotten the fancy-schmancy name of the dish on the menu). Roger was clearly not pleased with his meal, which he promptly sent back. He writes: 5-star coin collectors and conversation; 0-star food. Ordered “tagliatelle alla bolognese” – turned out to be flavorless dried out linguine w/dry meatballs (lamb, deer, rat? hard to tell). Sauce was awful tomato gunk. Served barely warm. Inedible. Sent back to the kitchen for the cook – or maybe the baker – (no chef would dare send this out of his kitchen) to eat – and choke on. Even the lowest class cooking in Italy is much better than the mess served me. All in all, a pretentious presentation and complete failure of product. Not a place I will visit or recommend to anyone. (The toothpicks were nice.) Gene Brandenburg writes: Dave & I were mumbling similar thoughts on the way home. I wonder how many bottles of Dom they sell @ $337....? (Wegman's retail is $125.) I have to say that the location was the nicest area I've seen around Washington, beautiful park out front. I agree about the location. I walked the long way around to my parking garage and the area was quite vibrant, looking great lit up at night. I would come back again, but not to Il Fornaio. Despite the restaurant food problem, it was another in a long series of great nights of numismatic fellowship. There's not much else numismatically that I can report this week, but given our earlier discussions about online numismatics, e-books and the like, thought I'd pass along this headline I came across on Thursday:
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'Til next time, everyone!
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