| Next Meeting: Tuesday, 22nd of January (4th Tuesdays) Denny’s,205 Nugget Ave.(at East McCarran), Sparks December 25. No meeting, no museum January 22 Dinner, Elections, & The Carson Mint by Ken Hopple January 25 NDinner, Elections, & The Carson Min The Last Meeting 23 members got to see some local ore samples Rusty brought in from an old gold mine. Everyone else was watching the world series. THE BEAUTIFUL NEW CLUB MEDAL IS HERE! Buy 10, great Christmas present. Thanks to Jerry and Sam Dibitonto for helping out. All the old medals were sold to large crowd at the museum on 9-27. The museum coin press was making battle born/state capitol medals for Nevada Day and has 6 designs in stock now: pony express, Virginia Truckee railroad, CC Mint, state seal, and John Fremont. Ordered last 2018 .25. Should get here in time for me to make up some S .25 sets for 2018. Two islands and 3 birds, a nice set and stocking stuffer. 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 if any problems or ideas Early Bird Prize: 2016S .25 set won by Joe Wozniak. Raffle prizes winners were: Bart Daniel: mystery box RCC silver club medal, 1995 proof set, 2001 mint set, mint bag Cohn: Barber .25 Laurel Hogan: 1944 Merc .10, LV bingo chip Thomas Charleton: type set capitol holder, 1978 mint set Rick De Avila: Indian head .01, chocolate coins, 2x2 Bill Nailer: book on Georgia mint, chocolate coins Milton Angel: set NA $1 Joe Wozniak: 2016S .25 set, storage boxes Dave Loder: 1995 .01 roll, bag of NV tokens Phil Shallit: buffalo .05 Jerry Breedlove: 2x2 coin holders Ken Hopple: 1g silver bar Leo Rossow: coin albums David Elliott: coin wallets Auctions 1898 O $1 donated by David Elliott won by Rick De Avila for $36. Quarter Pot Robert Rodriguez won the quarter pot, but no .25 put in. I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO DONATES TO THE RAFFLE! Upcoming Coin Shows November 16-18 Las Vegas Numismatic Society Coin Show, Palace Station Hotel, 2411 W.Sahara Ave., Admit:?, Tables:?, CK Shows 888 330-5188 info@ckshows.com www.ckshows.com November 30-Dec 1 San Francisco International Coin Show, Holiday Inn golden Gateway, 1500 Van Ness Ave., Admit:$8, Tables:?, Scott Griffin 415 601- 8661 scott@griffin.com www.griffincoin.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: New Reno coin club Medal Our new medal celebrates the 50th anniversary of Eva Adams Director of the US Mint 1961-1969 and the moon landing 1969 with an engine developed and tested in Palomino Valley, NV. Eva Adams was a member of the Reno Coin Club until her death in 1991. She gave autographed dollars bills to the young members of the club. She was born in Wonder, Nevada on September 10, 1908. Her father worked for mining magnate George Wingfield, and set up hotels, bars, and commissaries in Wingfield's mining camps. The family had to move from camp to camp for years before Adams' mother insisted the family settle down in Reno. Eva Adams graduated from Reno High School at age 14. She then attended the University of Nevada, Reno. After college, Adams moved to Las Vegas to become a teacher at Las Vegas High School. She went back east to earn an MA in English and a law degree. She returned to Nevada in 1940 to briefly join the English department of UNR. Shortly thereafter, Senator Pat McCarran invited her to move to Washington to become his administrative assistant. She worked for Senator McCarran until his death in 1954, Senator Ernest S. Brown, and then Senator Alan Bible. In 1961, President of the United States John F. Kennedy named Adams Director of the US Mint, and Adams subsequently held that office from October 1961 until August 1969. The end of silver coinage caused a coin shortage as people hoarded silver coins. She requested the coin press at the Nevada State Museum be sent to Denver to help make coins. The coin press then had a history of minting coins for Carson City, San Francisco, and Denver. We are proud to have her on our new medal. The Reno arch is to the right. We are also celebrating the landing on the moon in 1969 and Nevada’s involvement. From 1962 to 1970, Rocketdyne operated a vast facility on nearly 200 square miles of land mostly east of Pyramid Highway between Sparks and Pyramid Lake. Hidden from public view and under tight security, engineers erected massive apparatus to test engines and thrusters that would be used on Gemini and Apollo spacecraft, the lunar module and the space shuttle. The rocket that lifted Buzz Aldrin from the moon came from the testing facility at Palomino Valley. The reverse is based on the Eagle has landed design found on the Susan B. Anthony and Eisenhower dollar with the dates of the moon landing above. Medals will sell for $65 for silver, $15 for brass and copper. Numismatically yours, David Elliott Numismatic Potpourri Well, I was right about the design for the moon coin out in January. No pricing yet. There will be a $5 gold coin, a standard size $1 silver coin, a half dollar clad coin, and a five ounce $1 silver proof coin. In a manufacturing first for the Mint, the five ounce silver proof coin will be curved, as will the other coins in the program with a concave footprint and convex helmet Nearly 1,000 certified items from the collection of astronaut Neil Armstrong were sold by Heritage Auctions. Armstrong carried this Apollo 11 Gilt Fliteline Medal on the Apollo 11 lunar module. It realized $275,000. Favored design for 2019 Native American dollar has feathers and a planets with a lot of cool designs with spaceship rejected. Does not appear to be a final decision yet. Evidently someone told the mint there are 500 tribes, and they have let bureaucrats at National Museum of the American Indian in DC and NY come up with themes celebrating government except for Eastman :2020 Anti-discrimination Act of 1945, 2021 American Indians in the U.S. military service, 2022 Ely Samuel Parker, 2023 Charles Alexander Eastman. 2024 The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. Hope there will be some nice designs anyway. The Robert Rodriguez is torturing his 1792 disme in the cyclotron in Chicago. He has some new treasures; in particular a pattern 1792 George Washington half dollar. Peter Getz struck these trial pieces in 1792 in silver and copper presumably in hopes of getting a job or contract from the US mint. Nice portrait of George Washington, who did not want to be king or have his portrait on US coins. Just 22 examples of all variants of the silver coins. The US Mint will be selling currency for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, starting now on their website. The US Mint also has their presidential coins on silver eagle planchettes for sale for $40 or $45 with an official engraving from BEP. Terrelle Robert Talbot requested various bank tellers exchange rolled $2 coins for banknotes. The rolls of coins looked authentic with a real toonie on either end, but unbeknownst to the tellers, all the other “coins” inside the roll were actually metal washers. 17 banks in British Columbia were defrauded of more than $30,000. They decided on 2020 Coast Guard design on 2.5 ounce silver coins and almost have the design for Air Force. The jets will be on the obverse with memorial and honor guard or eagle on the reverse. All the services will get medals. The rarest and most famous of all U.S. currency notes, the legendary 1890 $1,000 Treasury Note, known as the "Grand Watermelon note," due to the design of the large zeroes on the reversed side of the bill, resembling watermelons, became the single most valuable piece of currency when it sold for $3,290,000. The portrait of General George Meade on the $1000 Note was engraved by renowned artist and line engraver Charles Burt The US Mint at their annual meeting said a great many programs will be directed at children and youth next year, will be more active in legislation concerning coinage and plans to have joint products with the Canadian, British, and Australian mints. Most intriguing of all they said they will be introducing error coins into circulating coinage for people to find. The new polymer notes in Britain, Canada, New Zealand and elsewhere have a bit of tallow in them complain vegans. The American Numismatic Society (ANS) this week mounted an exhibit in the ANS foyer, displaying select examples from the recently acquired Medallic Arts Company (MACO) archives. In 2018, the ANS acquired the archives of MACO, a collection of more than 50,000 items of historic and numismatic significance. MACO was founded in New York City around 1909 as a private mint producing medals and galvanos by some of the most prominent American sculptors of the twentieth century. The ANS acquired the archives as part of the bankruptcy proceedings of the Northwest Territorial Mint in a bid to preserve the heritage of the important mint and make available its archives for future study and research. British Library put on display a rare coin of King Offa of Mercia, who reigned between 757AD to 796AD. He minted hundreds of gold dinars featuring his name and the Islamic declaration of faith. The Christian ruler sought to trade with Europe and the Mediterranean including the then Muslim-controlled Spain, which explains the coinage. Proof Platinum Eagles in years 2021 to 2025 will depict obverse designs emblematic of the five freedoms enumerated in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution: the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble, and freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances. A $2 circulation coin marking the 100th anniversary of the First World War Armistice by the Royal Canadian Mint. Recalling the signing of the historic peace treaty that officially ended the Great War on Nov. 11, 1918. A total of three million coins, including two million selectively colored and one million unpainted, will be issued nationwide. On January 1st, 2015, Lithuania officially changed their national currency to the euro, joining many other European nations in using the widely accepted monetary system. So, to celebrate, they broke a world record with a pyramid made out of their disused coins, over a million one-cent pieces . The project was the brainchild of two Lithuanian physics students, Vytautas Jakštass and Domas Jokubauskis, who wanted to create a fitting memorial to the currency they grew up with. Proof Platinum Eagles in years 2021 to 2025 will depict obverse designs emblematic of the five freedoms enumerated in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution: the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble, and freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Cool Deep Space 9 coin from Canada, about 31g, about $115. It’s the 25th anniversary of DS9 this year. In 1905 the International Workers of the World (IWW or Wobblies) was created. In 1906 Goldfield had suddenly emerged as the biggest, most important, richest mining area in the United States. It would make a great place for the IWW to flex its muscles. In December 1906 and January 1907 they orchestrated small strikes for higher wages and it looked like the union would win this victory. But at the same time George Wingfield was gaining strength among the mine owners. He has become the most important owner, powerful and was unscrupulous. He convinced Governor Sparks to get Teddy Roosevelt to call in Federal Troops. He manipulated a jury into finding the strike leaders guilty of various crimes. The strike utterly failed. |
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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
Dues are Due,
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| 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 |
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January 1
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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 |
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January 1
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| Next Meeting: Tuesday, 22nd of January (4th Tuesdays) Denny’s,205 Nugget Ave.(at East McCarran), Sparks December 25. No meeting, no museum January 22 Dinner, Elections, & The Carson Mint by Ken Hopple January 25 New Coins at the Museum Febuary 22 New Coins at the Museum Feburary 26 Something Presidential Doug Larson The Last Meeting 23 played members got to play secret raffle. I won a couple prizes, but just have numbers for everyone else. THE GREAT NEW CLUB MEDAL IS HERE! The medals are selling by mail and at the club meeting. Please consider them as Christmas presents. The coin press at the museum was running and has 6 designs in stock now: pony express, Virginia Truckee railroad, CC Mint, state seal, and John Fremont. There were 800 happy 2nd graders with pencils, coins, and quartz points as well as some happy teachers. Will order first in new dollar series American Innovators December 14. Plan to get a P bag of 100. Rolls are 20 cents more a coin, but if there is enough interest I’ll also get a D bag. Let me know. No prices yet, but Apollo XI coins are coming out end of January, like January 24th, 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 if any problems or ideas Early Bird Prize: 2018S .25 set by Jeff Allen Raffle prizes winners were: Laurel Hogan, Shannon Holmes, Rick De Avila, Leo Rossow, Dave Lander, Ken Kellet, Mary Long, George Lee, Andre Assam, Gerald Breedlove, Gerhard Dohne, Jeff Allen, Ken Hopple, Robert Rodriguez, Trish Elliott, Dan Waterman, Paul Williams, Joe Wozniak, Milton Angel, Leo Rossow, David Elliott: sterling silver Morgan dollar that broke the coin press, 2009 penny set I just got numbers, not prizes. Auctions No auctions.. Quarter Pot Leo Rossow WON the quarter pot I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO DONATES TO THE RAFFLE! Upcoming Coin Shows January 4, 5 Concord Coin Show, Clarion Hotel, 1050 Burnett Ave., Admit:$3, Tables: 39, Bill Green 925 351-7605 info@norcalcoinshows.com www. nocalcoinshows.com January 10-13 FUN Show, Orange County Convention Center, 9800 International, Orlando, FL, Admit: FREE, Tables: 1500, Cindy Wibker 407 321-8747 CWibker@aol.com www.funtopics.com January 31-Feb 1-2 Long Beach Show, Long Beach Convention Center, 100 S. Pine Ave., Admit:$10, Tables: huge, Taryn Warrecker 805 680-0294 TWarrecker@collecters.com 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 The Other Coin: Ukraine and the Crimea Coins, Part 1: The Beginning Since the Ukraine and the Crimea are in the news a lot, a look at their coins can illuminate the basis of the struggle. First of all the Crimea was never part of the Ukraine until Stalin gave it to Ukraine after deporting all the Crimean Tartars to Siberia. Even though the Ukraine snatched territory during the Russian Civil War 1917- 1921 it did not include the Crimea. The Ukraine, which means borderland, was the home of the Scythians, Pechenegs, and various Slavic tribes that bordered the northern Black Sea of Greek colonies, then the Roman and Byzantine Empires and then southern Russia. Almost a dozen Greek mints produced coins, then the Bosporus Kingdom (480BC- 342AD), and the Byzantine mint of Cherson (400-1071AD). The northern Black Sea was a transit area for grain, slaves, honey, amber, gold, lumber, and trade from China, India, and Central Asia. Greek and Roman urban areas depended on the rich farmlands to feed their populations. Olbia is famous for their dolphin and gorgon coins minted as early as 5th century BC. The Greeks began a tradition of cast coinage that continued through the Byzantine period. The coins of the Bosporus Kingdom have remarkable portraits of rulers, including Roman rulers often placed on the reverse in both gold and copper. They worshiped Venus and Hercules and adopted Roman customs of trophies and architecture. Coins of Sauromates II (174-210 AD) with Roman emperors Septimus Severus and Caracalla abd Hercules and the Golden hind. AAlso a coin of Rhescuporis I (68-90 AD) with king standing on captive before trophy and city gate with equestrian statue. The Cherson area maintained a quasi-independent role to Constantinople and made their own cast bronze coins for 700 years. Cast coins of Theodosius II, Justinian, and Basil I. It is thought that the mint of Cherson was used by the Rusians of Kiev to mint their first coins. The Rus princes, the same Varangians or Vikings seen in the TV show Vikings, had nominally united the Russian lands from Novgorod to the Black Sea, and Mstislav (988-1035AD), son of Grand Prince Vladimir and Anastasia, daughter of the Byzantine emperor Constantine IX established Kiev as his capitol. The Byzantine imitations have on the reverse random letters or simple squares. Russian had also recently become a written language based on Greek letters and several other symbols invented by Cyril (d.869), an Orthodox missionary. The first Ukrainian coins have thin flans followed Arabic coinage and the coins were the size between a quarter and half dollar. Vladimir (978- 1015AD) had coins with actual inscriptions in Russian: “Vladimir is on the throne and this is his silver,” Prince enthroned holding cross, reverse trident symbol of Vladimir used on modern Ukrainian coins. These coins along with a few gold coins are so rare that they are considered to be medals or presentation pieces. His son Mstislav coins have been found in sufficient quantity to be considered currency. Although Kiev became a city with churches, palaces, and a significant population, it was sacked by Russian Prince Andrei of Suzdal in 1169 and razed by the Mongol hordes in 1240, transferring the capitol north to Vladimir, then Moscow (c.1380). The Ukraine was the original homeland of Russia, but Moscow became the new master of all the Rus by agreeing to be the tax collector for the Mongols and recovered in decades rather than centuries that it took Kiev. The Crimea and lands east of Ukraine all become homeland of the Mongol Golden Horde or the Crimean khans until 1774. South of Kiev the nomadic tribes of the Cossacks ruled into the 20th century, so that the Ukraine had no territory on the Black Sea. Numismatically yours, David Elliott Numismatic Potpourri 2019 silver and platinum eagles and gold buffaloes available January 7. The finest Morgan set will be on display at the FUN show in Florida. 2019 National Park quarter for Lowell, MA launches February 6. A woman at an early power loom. Should have saved that for the innovation series. Dilenia Fiore started collecting coins in February 2018 and found seven examples of the rare 1995-D doubled die obverse Lincoln Cent in her first month of collecting. They are worth $1,000 each. She says she got started due to a video she saw on YouTube and immediately went to Facebook and became a member of COIN OPP (the group that sponsored the YouTube video), where she quickly learned about finding errors and varieties in unsearched rolls and circulation change. American Numismatic Society has updated and enlarged its data base on Seleucid coins http://numismatics.org/sco/ Also available are all the scans from the Newman Project on early American coins https://donum.numismatics.org/ A CC mint mark for this assay coin is the mark of Continental Coin Corporation made in the 1980s to counter the Hunt brothers attempt to corner the silver market. The silver was provided from the US Defense Logistics Agency and not minted by the San Francisco mint or assay office. Authorities said when a customer attempted to with-draw $20 on Sunday at around 11 p.m., the ATM machine spit out $100 bills in place of two $10s, When the man posted about it on social media, a crowd rushed to the location, deputies said. A few fights ensued while people waited in line to make money from the ATM glitch. The free-for-all continued for two-hours before authorities arrived. They “will be able to keep the additional money dispensed," the ATM company said. The Canadian mint is selling Polish coins minted for Niue for $105 with porcelain and golden dragon and a real pearl of good luck tree for Chinese New Year. We sell a wimpy dollar bill for $6 from US mint on December 18. It’s the year of the pig. Several new Q. David Bowers new guidebooks for Morgan dollar, Civil War tokens, Barber silver coins, and Lincoln cents. David Lisot and the Newman Numismatic Portal concluded an agreement to make the David Lisot video library available via Newman Portal. This is a substantial archive, with over 1,800 videos from the mid-1980s to date. https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/multimediadetail/522852 On Youtube and Newman Numismatic Portal is a video on the the Nova Constellatios. Its creator is Lianna Spurrier, a college student with a taste for numismatic history and a talent for creating documentary-style videos. Her fine work has got her several contracts for more coin videos. Lost And Found: The Nova Constellatio Set https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/557666 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bVMPYc17rc Artifacts from the SS Central America are going on sale to pay off Tommy Thompson creditors as he sits in jail refusing to cooperate with courts. Items include the ship’s bell, cigars, clothing, passenger tickets, clothing, and various bottles and china. Chinese notes clearly labeled as fake (in Chinese) passed freely in Canada until a court ruled they were counterfeits . |
Dues are Due,
$20 January 1
$20 January 1
SF set of all five 2013-2018S quarters in case $5
National Park Quarters PDS .50
Presidential, Native American D P $1.25
Club medal silver $65, copper or brass $15
National Park Quarters PDS .50
Presidential, Native American D P $1.25
Club medal silver $65, copper or brass $15
2018 S .25 sets, Jim
Thorpe $1, and Rhode
Island .25 here.
American Innovation
on the way. Please
order medals: $5
postage 1 medal, $12
for multiple medals;
David Elliott
2845 Edgewood Drive
Reno, NV 89503
Thorpe $1, and Rhode
Island .25 here.
American Innovation
on the way. Please
order medals: $5
postage 1 medal, $12
for multiple medals;
David Elliott
2845 Edgewood Drive
Reno, NV 89503
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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
large library is housed by him at 3555 Airway
Drive #308 (around back as Holabird
Americana). Call 851-1859
