| Next Meeting: Tuesday, 24th of April 7 PM (4th Tuesdays now) Denny’s,205 Nugget Ave.(at East McCarran), Sparks April 20 At the Museum: National Coin Week 10:30 Joe Wozniak Abraham Lincoln-Early Life, Beloved President, and Impact on US Coinage 1:30 David Elliott The Changing Faces and Meaning of Liberty on Ancient and US Coins April 24 Morgan Dollar Varieties 1884 O Sam Dibitonto April 27 At the Museum: New Coins May 22 Error Coins Dan Trimble May 25 At the Museum: New Coins June 26 Favorite Coin and Bourse The Last Meeting A good crowd heard the tale of the coins of Georgia, the little country that survived the worst of the Muslim armies. We are working on a coin design commemorating Eva Adams, mint director on one side and moon landing on other. It’s 50th anniversary of both. Ken Hopple is going to present possible moon landing designs at next board meeting. Our new coin won’t be minted in Carson as they have gone to .50 size. The museum coin press is running, Laurel and I will be going down for National Coin Week on the 20th and Last Friday on 27th. Please join us. Apostle Islands .25 out April 9th should be able to get it. Joe Wozniak will be sharing the Lincoln Memorabilia collected by his father during National Coin Week, and I will update my lecture on Liberty with the new Liberty coins, especially the black liberty and the platinum liberties. Robert got his 1792 half disme whacked by cyclotron, awaiting results. Bring up to 5 coins for the bid board now. We will have board meetings before the regular meeting and vigorously tell people to be quiet so we can conduct business. Contact me with suggestions or topics you would like to see: 815-8625 datbbelliotts@prodigy.net See you at Aces baseball! Early Bird Prize was Jim Thorpe $1 set won by Raffle prizes winners were: Jerry Breedlove: Barber .25 Dan Waterman: 1997 proof set David Loder: English proof set Joe Wozniak:steel penny set Rick De Avila: Mercury dime, Indian .01, Roosevelt silver .10, 1979 first day cover, hand free loupe Milton Angel: coin book, 2000 mint set, elongate pennies Jerry Breedlove: chocolate coins Bart Daniels: 1977 proof set, 5 .25 S set Cole Allen: full date buffalo .05 Rusty King: Jim Thorpe $1 set Laurel Hoggan: bunch of coin bags Ken Hopple: coin book Auctions No auctions. Quarter Pot Someone not present won the quarter pot. I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO DONATES TO THE RAFFLE! Upcoming Coin Shows April 20-22 Santa Clara Coin, Stamps, etc. Show, Convention Center, 5001 Great America Parkway, Admit:$6, Tables: 79, Scott Griffin, 415 601-8661 scottgriff@hotmail.com www.griffincoin.com May 4, 5 Sacramento Coin Show, Four Points Sheraton Hotel, 4900 Duckhorn Dr., Admit: $3, Tables: 50, Bob Shanks, 916 204-5168 Robert.Shanks@att.net www.sacvallcc.org May 6 Vallejo Coin Show, Florence Douglas Senior Center, 333 Amador, Admit: FREE, Tables: 40+, Ed, 707 642-8754 vallejocoinclub@gmail.com www. solanocoinclub.com May 18-20 Las Vegas Numismatic Society Coin Show, Westgate Resort & Casino, 3000 Paradise Road, Admit: $3, Tables:?, CK Shows, 888 330-5188 info@ckshows.com www.ckshowscom June 14-16 Long Beach Coin Show, Long Beach Convention Center, 100 S. Pine Ave., Admit: $8, Tables: huge, Taryn Warrecker 805 680-0294 www. longbeachexpo.com RCC Officers David Elliott….......... President…........…815-8625 Rusty King..............Vice President......... 677-7057 Doug Larson............Past President..........843-0162 Gerald Breedlove........Treasurer..............425-2967 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: 1884 O Morgan Dollar VAMs The 1884-O Morgan dollar had a mintage of almost 10 million coins. Many survived in Treasury vaults in uncirculated condition in original bags. This issue is quite common in mint state through gem. However, weak strikes were a common issue at the New Orleans Mint, so this issue is much harder to find in MS66 than one might expect. The die creation and minting process created varieties or oddities in coins. Through careful study, slight differences can be discerned to identify specific dies that created the coins. Sometimes these differences occur during the creation of the dies, while other times they are caused by the maintenance or use of the dies. The first opportunity for a die variety is during the production process of the coin die. Mint workers manufacture each coin die from a coin hub that has an exact image of the coin. The coin hub is used to produce a coin die that is a mirror image of the coin design. Although the United States Mint strives to produce every coin perfectly, some minor errors or imperfections occur. The second opportunity to produce a die variety is during the maintenance of the coin die. During the production process, mistakes can result in abnormal wear or slight damage to the coin die such as scratches, rust, or die cracks. Mint workers will try to prolong the life of the coin die by removing the error or damage through tooling or polishing the die before it is returned to production. Unfortunately, this process will lead to slight variations in the coin die. Some of them are pronounced and visible to the naked eye. Others are only identifiable under magnification. Extensive research on the variations in the dies used to strike silver dollars was published 44 years ago by Leroy C. Van Allen and A. George Mallis. Their work centers on Morgan dollars that were minted by the United States Mint from 1878 through 1904 and the resumed again in 1921 and Peace Dollars issued from 1921 through 1935. The term VAM is an acronym for "Van Allen - Mallis." The goal of the VAM system is to number and catalog every known die variety by date and mint mark. To this end, every Morgan dollar in existence is either already a VAM or should be a VAM. This is a continuous process, and new varieties are continually discovered and added to the list. These varieties are collected with photographs at www.vamworld.com, which is very nice, but there is a notice the site will soon close down. The 1884 O has some 55 varieties cataloged and is an ideal coin with a large population in high grade from a mint known to be sloppy in its work habits. Looking at a Morgan dollar under magnification allows you to learn the details of the minting process and where it can go wrong. New varieties are found all the time. In 1996 Michael S. Fey and Jeff Oxman published the Top 100 VAM Keys. This pocket reference book pinpointed the most highly sought Morgan dollar die varieties. The popularity of the book created a boom in interest in Morgan dollar die varieties that is still expanding. Numismatically yours, David Elliott Numismatic Potpourri The Central Bank of Ireland is expected to make a decision to cease the printing of euro banknotes in Ireland and get Euro notes from some other source in the Euro zone. The new Mega Red book ships April 10 with an expanded section on dimes by Q. David Bowers for $50. The US Mint struck gold coins for the first time in 1795 with 5,583 Capped Bust $10 eagles. Five die varieties are known for the date, and in the Long Beach Signature Auction, an example of the famous BD-3 variety, with nine leaves in the palm frond on the reverse will be available. This variety is the rarest and most famous of all the small Eagle ten dollar varieties, with a surviving population of 18-22 examples, according to PCGS Coin Facts. The Lincoln Fitzgerald hoard is in the news again as souvenir sets are being resold. In 2004 coin dealer Ronald J. Gillio could not believe his eyes: Inside warehouses were boxes and boxes of casino spoons, matches, key chains and coasters, etc. accumulated over decades. Locked in safes were bags and bags of silver dollars, more than 100,000 in all. There were also thousands of casino chips in denominations from $1 to $100. In the Fitzgerald stash, he found empty bags from the Carson City Mint dating to the 1880s. This would go well with a Redfield dollar. A hoard of 297 1883 no cents uncirculated nickels has been found and is being auctioned by Heritage. The V nickel coin without denomination was often plated and passed off as a $5 gold piece. Several nice videos on the new SS Central America discoveries including the safe, a new large bar, and how they are being conserved. https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/2018/03/in-depth-look-ss-central-america-ingots-money-gold-dust.html Canada is continuing their Star Trek, Native American, animal, and WWI series with some nice coins and have also made coins with a saber tooth and woolly mammoth trapped in ice, a copy of a brooch of Elizabeth II with maple leaves and a pearl, and 3 eagles. British Royal Mint in Wales tour has greatly increased when for about $7 a visitor can strike his own 2018 Sir Isaac Newton 50-pence coin. Newton 50-pence coins were released into circulation dated 2017; however, the 2018-dated examples can only be acquired by visiting the BRM in person. People have been paid to attend the tour to get the coin because some of the 2018 coins have been sold on eBay for more than $84. Perth Mint is ending their series on WWI with some nice coins, celebrating the wild dog and have a 2-headed dragon with a unicorn head that is ugly. They do have a nice pink panther coin complete with pink diamond, pink gold or platinum, and a Daffy Duck coin along with coins for Ready Player One movie. Surviving members of the WWII OSS (17 people) got awards congressional gold medals. Bronze replicas can be purchased for $7 (1.5 inch) or $40 (3 inch). The phrases on the reverse are the code names for special operations. The US mint makes on average a billion coins a month. Heritage Auctions sold the finest known Brasher doubloon for over $5 million. They have sales of over a billion dollars a year. The sale of the Higgley copper sale made Numismatic News this month. Robert usually brings something cool in, so check with him when he’s in attendance. 64 designs were submitted for the American Legion medal ranging from the pin and flags of the American Legion to children citing the pledge of allegiance. They have a lot of nice choices, and the American Legion is on the committee that makes the final decision. Canada has issued coins for Captain Cook and Tecumseh as British heroes in the War of 1812. I like to collect coins of a Greek or Roman ruler and his opponent, so with a George III you can have all our major opponents. I also added another Greek monster to my collection from Arados, Phoenicia, a 5th century BC diobol. With a merman or triton and dolphins on obverse and a galley lined with shields and hippocampus below. David J. Ryder returns as Director of the Mint with an expertise in anti-counterfeiting. The Bureau of Engraving is issuing three engravings of WWI memorabilia for about $17 each if you buy the set. 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