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Fred Holabird reminds everyone that the club’s large library is housed by him at
3555 Airway Drive #308 (around back as Holabird Americana). Call 851-1859
3555 Airway Drive #308 (around back as Holabird Americana). Call 851-1859
SF set of all five 2013-2017S quarters in case $5
National Park Quarters PDS .50
Presidential, Native American D P $1.25
National Park Quarters PDS .50
Presidential, Native American D P $1.25
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2018 S .25 sets, Jim Thorpe $1, and Rhode Island .25 here
| VOLUNTEER NEEDED!!! Trish will be off to help nurse a cancer patient. Please consider helping David the last Friday of the month at the State Museum in Carson City. January to April. Free ride and dinner. Call 815-8625 |
Dues are
Due, $20
January 1
Due, $20
January 1
| VOLUNTEER NEEDED!!! Trish will be off to help nurse a cancer patient. Please consider helping David the last Friday of the month at the State Museum in Carson City. January to April. Free ride and dinner. Call 815-8625 |
Dues are
Due, $20
January 1
Due, $20
January 1
| Next Meeting: Tuesday, 26th of February (4th Tuesdays) Denny’s,205 Nugget Ave.(at East McCarran), Sparks February 22 No Museum (at Comic Con) February 26 The Carson Mint by Ken Hopple Trying again, it's 150th anniversary of the coin press. March 26 Ukraine & Crimea Coins David Elliott March 29 New Coins at the Museum April 23 Space Related Coins I'll show my space coins, you brings yours April 26-27 National Coin Week at the Museum The Last Meeting 35 members re-elected the board with the addition of Mary Long as the new treasurer, allowing Jerry to retire. Thanks for all your hard work! Andre Assam became life member #15 for all his hard work as secretary and great handwriting! Did not sell very many of our excess quarters and presidential dollars. At the museum there were 100 or so happy grade schoolers with pencils and penny blanks at the museum. Milton Angel, Bill Naylor, and Jerry Breedlove all had a good time at the museum. The new Innovation dollar sold well. Got adds in Fred Holabird catalog, ANA Mintmark and E-Esylum for our medal for free. I also did ancient Greek coins in a third grade class near my home. Lowell .25 on way and NA $1 ordered on February 13th should get here. Ordered 5 ounce moon landing coin, but it’s back ordered, of course. Mint offers 2 day shipping, but can takes weeks to fill an order. Selling things they do not have. Bring up to 5 coins for the bid board now. We have board meetings before the meeting and ask for quiet so we can conduct business. Contact me: 815-8625 datbbelliotts@prodigy.net with any ideas or problems. Early Bird Prize: 5 2018D penny blanks .25 set won by Trish Felkner. Raffle prizes winners were: Thomas Charleton: mystery box $20 bill (wow) Bill Naylor: 1975, 1976 mint set Philip Shallit: Nixon dollars Rick De Avilla: tokens, 2018D penny blanks Ken Hopple: 1977 proof set, buffalo .05 George Lee: 2016S .25 set Cole Allen: Bicentennial medal, Gold Strike casino chip, Mercury .10 album set Joseph Drapula: Merc..10 Faye Allen:Barber.25 Mary Long: 2018 Innovation $1, Indian head .01, buff .05 Trish Elliott: SF Giants puzzle, large binder 2x2 sheets Bart Daniels: Unc. NV state quarter Laurel Hoggan: 50 state quarter album Joe Wozniak: 2014D penny roll Gary Meckler: Civil War coin books, Heritage catalogs George Lee: Morgan dollar albums Auctions 1898 O $1 donated by David Elliott won by Rick De Avila for $36. Quarter Pot Trish Felkner (my wife) won the quarter pot, about$5. (The fix was in.) I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO DONATES TO THE RAFFLE! Upcoming Coin Shows March 3 Livermore Valley Coin Club Show, Elk’s Lodge, 940 Larkspur Dr., Admit: FREE, Tables:33, Jonathan Mitchell 925 954-5221 jmitchell@neighborhoodam.com March 15,16 Sunnyvale Coin Show, Domain Hotel, 1085 East El Camino Real, Admit: $4, Tables:34, Bill Green 925 351-7605 info@norcalcoinshows.com www.norcalcoinshows.com March 22,23 Sacramento Coin Show, Lion’s Gate Hotel, 3410 Westover St., Admit: $3, Tables:66, Peter McIntosh 916 317-9055 peter@mcintochcoins.com www.sacramentocoinshow.com March 22-24 Western State Toke Society, Veterans Memorial Bldg.,1351 Maple Ave., Santa Rosa, CA Admit:?, Tables: 25 Merle Avila 707 585-3711 merle@avilaarchitects.com July 19, 20 Reno Coin Show, Best Western, 55 Nugget Ave., Sparks. Bill Green 925 351-7605 info@norcalcoinshows.com We will have a table there. RCC Officers David Elliott….......... President…........…815-8625 Rusty King..............Vice President......... 677-7057 Doug Larson............Past President..........843-0162 Mary Long..................Treasurer.............853-0696 Andre Azzam ..............Secretary….........338-0707 Laurel Hoggan…..........Librarian..........…223-5096 Joe Wozniak.............…Director….......…853-4223 Ken Hopple ....…..........Director..............677-1544 Shannon Holmes...........Director..............827–4359 Paul Williams…..........ANA Rep..............720-5395 David Elliott...................Editor................815-8625 datbbelliotts@prodigy.net www.renocoinclub.org Not The Other Coin: 150th Anniversary of Coin Press #1 at Nevada State Museum 2019 marks the 150th anniversary of the Morgan & Orr steam-powered coining press, which arrived at the Carson Mint in 1869. On February 11, 1870, this press struck the first coin bearing the famous CC mintmark. The mint produced coins, from 1870 to 1885 and again from 1889 to 1893. When the press suffered a cracked arch in 1878, it was repaired at the local shop of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad. Proud of their handiwork, V&T machinists replaced the original brass Morgan & Orr plate with one bearing the name of the famous railroad. The Carson City Mint ceased coining operations in 1893 and the press was removed in 1899 to the Philadelphia Mint, where it was remodeled in 1930 to operate with electric power. In 1945, it was transferred to the "new" San Francisco Mint. When circulating coin production was halted at San Francisco in 1955, the old press was due to be scrapped. Through the efforts of Judge Clark J. Guild, the antique press was purchased by the state of Nevada for $225 and arrived back in Carson City in 1958. However, when US Mint Director Eva Adams, who was herself a native Nevadan and now famously on our club medal, was faced with a severe coin shortage in 1964, she requested the loan of the venerable press. It was soon trucked to the Denver mint and placed in operation, striking more than 188 million coins during the next three years. Once again returned to the Carson City museum in 1967, press No. 1 was converted to a much slower electric drive. In 1976, it was used to strike Nevada Bicentennial medals in gold, silver, copper and bronze. Don Schmitz, owner of the Nevada City Mint in California, began operating the press for the state of Nevada on a limited basis from 1977 to 2001. Coin Press No. 1 was operated by our own Ken Hopple for many years afterwards until 2017. After a severe break in 2017 when minting 1000s of sterling silver Morgan dollar replicas, the press was repaired several times and out of commission for most of a year. It was decided to limit coining to half dollar silver coins requiring less stress on the old press. This, required the recutting of dies including the collar die. The coin press began production again in November 2018 and has 7 designs in stock now: pony express, Virginia Truckee railroad, CC Mint building, state seal, and John Fremont. There is a new design of Abraham Curry first director of the mint to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the coin press in operation. I bought one of these and will bring it to the club. The packaging is much improved with historic photographs, but the half ounce silver is reduced only $5 from the dollar sized one ounce silver rounds and there will no longer be any inexpensive copper or brass coins. The smaller format works well with simpler designs, which includes the designs now being made except for the state seal. There are plans to have Marshall Mint, now at 4001 S. Virginia in the Old Town Mall, Reno across from the Convention Center, make dollar size coins for the museum. There are also plans to make a replica of the first CC half dollar and a medal celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Transcontinental railroad. The coin press operates the last Friday of each month, which is also the time that school tours are arranged. We hope to go most months with the new coins and displays of ancients, obsolete US coins and various other displays. I want to thank Bill Naylor, Laurel Hoggan, Milton Angel, and Jerry Breedlove for helping with this monthly venture and Rusty King, Robert Rodriguez, Ken Hopple, Trish Felkner (my wife), and others who have helped (as well as anyone I am forgetting). The museum has many other fine displays besides coins and the press, it is a fun place to go. Numismatically yours, David Elliott Numismatic Potpourri New Zealand is offering 1 ounce silver Disney coins for about $90 each, not so great bullion deal, but they can be bought on the Royal Canadian mint site (www. mint,ca ), which also has Perth and Polish coins and a lot of other countries bullion coins, which can be collected by topic. The Canadian Mint also has a cool set of dinosaur coins for about $15 and about $3 postage in a pop up card along with other countries dinosaur coins. On February 28th the US mint will launch a glow in the dark rocket ship with a Kennedy half and the new Native American dollar and a place for a quarter (I would suggest 2004 Florida state with shuttle), limit 2 per household. $10. I’ll try and get 2, since I will be putting together a space display for National Coin Week. The Royal Mint in England is minting a set of coins celebrating the Tower of London in 5, 1, and 1/4 ounce gold and 5, 1 and proof silver all pricey, but the uncirculated silver is only 13 pounds of $17 dollars. The raven is the first of 4 coins. The tower is supposed to fall if all the ravens leave, so there are at least 6 pet ravens in attendance at all times. Nice cheap bullion coins. The Perth Mint has Simpson coins. Police are warning Albertans to watch out for phony Canadian bills, particularly the $50 and $100, which fraudsters are splicing together in a "Frankenstein" creation, using the holograms of real five or 10 dollar bills. Here’s a long web address if you want to see a couple year of the pig coins: https://www.numismaticnews.net/article/year-of-the-pig-brings-plenty-of-coins?k=4V18ybH3sHSdbvbjxZwEyYKTvo9Cqm9p5eLY9xLl98Q% 3D&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=nmn-kfa-nl-190205 Jeff Shevlin and Bill Hyder, So-Called Dollars from the Pacific Coast Expositions 1894-1962 is out. The Pacific Coast fairs showcased modern technological and scientific advances while celebrating the richness and bounty of the West. The most prominent off these spectacles were as follows:1894 California Midwinter Exposition, 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition, 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition, 1915-1916 Panama–California Exposition, 1935-1936 California Pacific International Exposition,1939-1940 Golden Gate International Exposition, and 1962 Seattle World's Fair. $60 plus shipping $4.50 per book. The regular and deluxe versions ($150) of So-Called Dollars from the Pacific Coast Expositions1894-1962 and the pocket price guide may be ordered from Jeff Shevlin, 1894 E. William St., Suite 4-240, Carson City, NV 89701, phone: (916) 955-2569 or email: SoCalledGuy@Hotmail.com. The Apollo XI coins did not sell out, although the 5 ounce silver is close. Thomas Jefferson is the latest presidential silver coin on an eagle planchette fort $40. The US Mint produced $13.1 billion in coins last year, which is a significant decrease over the last 2 years except for half dollars. The end of the tale of the theft of the 100 kilograms Big Maple Leaf gold coin with a diameter of 53.34 cm and a thickness of 3.81 cm draws near with four men on trial in Germany. The 100-kilogram coin struck in 2007 by the Royal Canadian Mint was stolen from Berlin’s Bode Museum in 2017. The men are accused of stealing the coin by entering the museum through a second-storey window, breaking a bulletproof cabinet, carrying the coin on a roller board and using a rope and wheelbarrow to transport it across railroad tracks and through a park to a getaway car. No alarms were triggered in the theft of the coin, which has a market value about $2.5 million. In court, prosecutors alleged brothers Wayci Remmo and Ahmed Remmo as well as their cousin Wissam Remmo, all under the age of 25, executed the night-time theft with the help of a friend who was contracted as a security guard at the museum weeks before the incident. Judge Frank S. Robinson, of Albany, NY is selling his personal collection of Vietnamese cash coins in an auction closing March 17. The collection of 383 different coins, includes many rare and choice pieces. They will be offered individually, with an option to bid for the entire collection. Vietnamese square-holed cash coinage began in the 10th century and ended in the 1926-1945 reign of Emperor Bao Dai and is the world's last cast cash coinage. A catalog of collection can be purchased from Robinson at Box 8600, Albany, NY 12208, e-mail: frank@fsrcoin.com The complete catalog will remain online: http://www.fsrcoin. com/Vietnamcash.html The American Numismatic Society (ANS) is pleased to announce the release of a new web-based research tool: Ptolemaic Coins Online (PCO). As part of the National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Hellenistic Royal Coinages project, PCO is a new research tool intended to provide wide access to the coins listed in the print volumes of Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire by Catharine C. Lorber, the first attempt to provide a new, comprehensive standard typology and catalogue for the coinage produced by the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt since Ioannis Svoronos's Coins of the Ptolemaic Rulers published in 1904–1908, which is available on-line. The PCO can be found at: http://numismatics.org/pco/ It will be printed in four volumes by 2020. Several major medieval And Ancient collections are being digitized and it will soon be possible to identify coins through facial recognition hardware. NGC is releasing two hole coin holders, so both the obverse and reverse can be shown or different finishes. Heritage is selling a 1943 bronze Lincoln cent, expecting to sell for $170,000, so it’s still a good idea to check your pocket change. Guide Book of Civil War Tokens by Q. David Bowers, a 512-page book is now available online for $39.95. |
SF set of all five 2013-2018S quarters in case $5
National Park Quarters PDS .50
Presidential, Innovators,Native American D P $1.25
Club medal silver $65, copper or brass $15
National Park Quarters PDS .50
Presidential, Innovators,Native American D P $1.25
Club medal silver $65, copper or brass $15
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https://renocoinclub.libib.com
Fred Holabird reminds everyone that the club’s large library
is housed by him at 3555 Airway Drive #308 (around back
as Holabird Americana). Call 851-1859
is housed by him at 3555 Airway Drive #308 (around back
as Holabird Americana). Call 851-1859
1st 2019 .25 here, NA dollar ordered.
Rusty King, Doug Larson, Ken Hopple,
David Elliott minting coin club medal 2014
David Elliott minting coin club medal 2014
