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Got Ct .25, ordered Salt River. NA, Georgia $1 here, 2019S .25 sets here.
Numismatic Potpourri
| SF set of all five 2013-2019S .25 in case $5 National Park Quarters PDS .50 Presidential, Native American D P $1.25 |
Next Meeting: FEBRUARY MAYBE??!! CANCELED January 26 Diner and Elections. Upcoming Coin Shows (most shows are cancelled, so check before you go to make sure it’s on.) February 19-21, Reno Coin Show, Silver Legacy, Admit: $3 Tables: ? John Ward 559 967-8067 CANCELED March 11-13 ANA National Money Show, Phoenix Convention Center, 100 N 3rd St. Admit: $8 Free on Saturday and to ANA members. Tables: huge Info: https://www.money.org/nationalmoneyshow RCC Officers David Elliott….......... President….......…815-8625 Rusty King..............Vice President......... 677-7057 Doug Larson............Past President..........843-0162 Mary Long..................Treasurer..............247-5796 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 |
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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
2020 NA & MA, CT $1, VT .25, & 2019S .25 sets here.
| In February two new guidebooks are coming out: Red Book Official Guide Book of Continental Currency and Coins 288pp. $23 and Red Book Official Guide Book of Gold Eagle Coins 448pp. $30 Both by Q. David Bowers. In January and February the ANA free learning Academy will continue with programs on euros, elongated coins, siege money, masonic pennies, Parthia, making ancient coins half cents, Lincoln, Black death coinage and more https://info.money.org/elearning ANA has also created The Grading Game for those that want a better understanding or practice grading US coins: money.org/games/grading-game ANA podcasts continue at Two Bits with a Dawn of Coinage episode. money.org/podcast The theme for this years Coin Week April 18-24 is Money, Big and Bold celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Eisenhower dollar and the 100th anniversary of the change from the Morgan dollar to the Peace dollar. With luck we will be at the museum again. The Newman Numismatic Portal is also offering its second free symposium March 19-21 from 7AM to 4 PM at https://nnpsymposium.org/register Collecting Colonials, Collecting Washington Medals, and US Classic Gold 1834-1839 look especially interesting. Also research on the little square Japanese coins and countermarked Spanish 8 reals by Britain. Effective January 1, 2021, the Government of Canada will remove legal tender status from some older bank notes that are no longer produced: the $1, $2, $25, $500 and $1,000 notes. Essentially, This means that Canadians will no longer be able to use them in cash transactions. The notes are too easy to counterfeit. These bank notes will not lose their face value, since the Bank of Canada will continue to honor them. People wishing to redeem their notes can do so at financial institutions or by sending them to the Bank of Canada. A nice hour long video on coin engraving What I Learned from 3000 Coin and Medal Artists lecture by Richard Wayne "Dick" Johnson (2002) is available at https://nnp. wustl.edu/library/book/557085 discussing the engravers and technology of coin making. Fake Hobo nickels are flooding the market from China. I will add that Spain is producing fake medieval British, French and other coins designed to deceive as well. One more reason to have coin shows with reputable dealers return. On December 17 H.R. 6192 passed by unanimous consent authorizing production of 2021 Morgan and Peace dollars in not less than .900 fine silver, with any balance of the alloy in copper. Options would include issues struck at the Denver, Philadelphia and San Francisco Mints. Privy marks could be added to specific Morgan dollar issues to pay homage to the silver dollar output at the former Carson City Mint in Nevada and New Orleans Mint in Louisiana. Also included is options for proof and uncirculated releases, with the possibility for special sets to include coins of different finishes from multiple mints. While the provisions of the enabling legislation authorize the production and release of silver dollars beginning in 2021, the law does not state a closing date. Mark Amodei helped with this over the last two years at my and Rusty King’s urging. 1964 Kennedy on clad quarter planchet: |
| Smithsonian displays Ulysses S. Grant Congressional medal for victory at Vicksburg in a presentation box of ebony and gold with commemorative medal of well over a pound of gold. On the obverse is a bust of Ulysses S. Grant to left with legend, "Major General Ulysses S. Grant / Joint Resolution of Congress / December 17. 1863" Thirteen stars and a wreath surround the design. A contemporaneous bronze medal show the reverse and dimension of 105 mm, 10 mm thick, 502 grams. Reverse has Commerce over maps of Vicksburg and Chattanooga and pile of armaments. |
| The National Coin Show at Phoenix in March that I was planning to attend got cancelled along with most other coins shows. I miss being able to see dealers I buy from, see rare coins and interesting displays, search for that hard to find ancient coin. I remember the World’s Fair of Money at Anaheim in 2016 where several dealers had junk boxes, and I got for $12 each coins of Cleopatra, Parthian kings, several huge Alexandrian drachms, and a complete set of Canadian 1 ounce silver Star Trek Coins for less than they cost at the Canadian Mint. The copper drachm of Alexandria was an attempt of a copper rich nation to substitute a copper coin for a silver coin, which created a huge copper coin. Catherine the Great of Russia’s huge 5 kopeck coins, our own large cents, and the famous plate money of Sweden are examples. These 33mm and above copper coins of 24 grams or so created a large canvas full of Egyptian themes. This coin depicts the annual rise of the Nile with the personified Nile reclining above a crocodile and holding a cornucopia from which emerges a child as a personified cubit with growing grain behind the Nile. The inscription TPICKA Iz Tris ka(i deka) or a 3 and 10 (13) of 16 cubits rise of the Nile on the nilometer in upper Egypt signaled a good year of irrigation, which is why the cubit child is holding a wreath. Like many ancient coins the image of the god is from a famous statue. This Nile statue was taken from Alexandria to Rome in ancient times. Several copies were made, the most famous is in the Vatican. Note the crocodiles with cubits, the original had all 16 cubits.There is a cornucopia behind the sphinx. These statues served as monuments in the temples of Isis as well as garden decorations or both like statues of St. Francis or the Blessed Virgin in Catholic gardens. That’s why there are so many of them. Anaheim was a great show allowing me to feed my two great passions of ancient coins and Original Series Star Trek. |
| A striking medal by Marika Somogyi called Vanitas made in 1986 for the Society of Medalists. It is a wonderful image of the chief sin of Vanity/Pride/Envy as taught by the Christian Church of Adam and Eve and the Devil. Vanity is seen as the cause of greed, hate, and oppression, and since it leads people to steal, desire, and harm others for selfish ends. The Devil envies us our ability to repent our sins and to have and requite God’s love. A bejeweled naked woman admires her beauty and wealth while the Devil peers at her with lust promising the skull of death, a book of false knowledge, and a compass to measure only the material world. One of three known gold coins of Ides of March celebrating the assassination of Julius Caesar sold for $4,188,393. Daggers, pileus or freedom cap // head of Brutus |
Numismatically yours, David Elliott
Not The Other Coin: No Coin Shows
| After the Last Meeting Everything January is cancelled. Daughter-in-law that works in ER got vaccine, wife signed up, daughter is pregnant, so can’t have it. My MD says we high risk will get vaccine soon, but not this month. Got Kansas butterfly .25, Bush, and Hubble $1. Please call and come by to get any of the new coins if you want. John Ward’s coin show still on, at Silver Legacy February 19-21 Info: 559 967-8067. Details at CoinZip.com We get a table and can do a raffle. ANA Phoenix in March is cancelled. ANA Coin Week April 18-24 Money, Big and Bold celebrating 50th of Eisenhower $1 and 100th of Morgan and Peace $1. W quarters are selling for $12 on e-bay. Thanks for buying 1/10 oz. Gold eagle raffle tickets. Same deal 40 $10 tickets, winner drawn when 40 tickets are sold. Please mail me a check at 2845 Edgewood Drive, Reno 89503. Stay safe. Contact me with any ideas or problems: 775 815-8625 datbbelliotts@prodigy.net DUES ARE DUE Treasurer’s report: activity. Income was $190 for 2021 dues (T. Charleton, Pete Plath, Ralph Doucette, Bill Green (new member, no badge), Frank Wheeler, Shannon Holmes and Conn Davis), and 5 tickets for 1/10 oz gold eagle. New expenses for the month included the normal expenses were paid for the newsletter, our website, and bank fees. |
| SF set of all five 2013-2019S .25 in case $5 National Park Quarters PDS .50 Presidential, Native American D P $1.25 |
Numismatic Potpourri
| DUES are Due $20 January 1 |
New Coins
| The Trump presidential medal with price tripled at 1.5 inches for $20 and quadrupled at 3 inch at $160 is back ordered. The 2020 SC Innovation dollar will come out Jan. 19 2021. The last quarter of the America the Beautiful series comes out Feb 8, the Tuskegee Airmen. I have found a six quarter case to put the S sets together then. On 2-1 the silver presidential series continues and 2-8 the armed services is still deciding on design (choices below) and the Native American $1 design to honor Indians in the armed services chose a stupid feather design over some nice ones (see below). The feathers are from 2019 NA $1 proposed design with stars instead of planets. Dumb then Dumb now. They had a lot of nice designs to choose from. 2019 NA feather design that was rejected. It’s worse on a military coin as giving a white feather is accusing someone of cowardice. It is extra stupid this time. |
Dues are Due, $20 January 1
| DUES are Due $20 January 1 |
The Washington crossing the Delaware quarter that will be the regular design from now on. Three favorite Air Force designs for the silver medal:
| Let us hope that being at the Silver Legacy John Ward’s first show in a long time in Reno will take off in February 19-21. So far they will allow 50 people at a time in the show room. Bill Green of NorCal Shows is also hoping to restart in May: May 21 & 22; Domain Hotel, Sunnyvale, CA June 25 & 26: Clarion Hotel, Concord, CA July 16 & 17: Ramada Inn, Reno, NV November 12 & 13: Domain Hotel, Sunnyvale, CA |
| Britain’s new coin commemorating HG Wells and Australia’s tooth fairy coin. For a short time the mint will produce the old designs for the 2021 silver and gold eagles. It is likely to be low mintage and nice to have with the new eagle designs. Both designs on-line. |
