February 28th 2000.

Next club meeting Monday 6th. March 2000.

At Abbey Baptist Church, Abbey Square.

Meeting commences at 7.00 pm.

New Venue

Please remember that we have changed Venue. The general opinion of the Abbey Church is that it is a good venue. We had the down stairs room as the upstairs room is not yet available. Lots of space and light. Hot water for refreshments.

February meeting.

This was the Club Quiz night. The Quiz was set by Alistair McKay who would normally be the Quizmaster, but he was unavailable and the duty was taken by Michael. An excellent set of questions arranged by Alistair and the Club sends their thanks.

The members were divided into 4 teams of 4 players. The first round was the identification of coins. Most of them obscure and from the Middle East. The second round was the identification of English tokens, then three rounds of questions with four questions for each team per round.

One of the coins was from Algeria:-

One of the tokens was from Walthamstow:-

The maximum number of points a team could win from their questions was 40. The team could earn extra points by answering correctly, questions that could not be answered by the teams that they were first put to.

Frank's team won with a points total of 36. The team members were Frank, John, Ian and John. Well done that team. Each member received a small prize.

There were 17 members present and four dealer tables.

The February Meeting presentation was by Tim, entitled:-

When Church and State combine. The Prince Bishops of Saltzburg.

On display were 19 coins and literature on Saltzburg. The monetary system is 4 Pfenning = 1 Kreuzer, 120 kreuzer = 1 Convention Thaler.

The coins displayed were:

The last is illustrated below:

Thank you to Tim for the display.

The March display will be by John.

March Meeting.

The march meeting is a talk by Mr. David Griffiths entitled "Dalton and Hamer - The Men behind the Book." This is the standard work on 18C. tokens. Dalton also wrote a book on 19C. tokens. This will be a good talk for Coin collectors and especially Token collectors.

Social events for 2000.

Following on from the enthusiastic response to the idea of a skittles evening at the February meeting, we have now booked the Red Lion at Theale. The price for the Skittles Evening will be £7-5O, including a buffet. The buffet will consist of:

We would like to have a firm commitment from members who wish to attend the skittles evening at the next meeting to give the people at the Red Lion a firmer idea of numbers. We shall be collecting payments at the March and April meetings. We would be very grateful if members who wish to come along to the skittles evening but who are not attending the next two meetings, contact a committee member to let us know.

Club Annual Auction in May.

The May meeting is the Club's annual auction. It is time to give your lots to any committee member. The committee will catalogue all coins and put an estimate on unreserved coins. Unsold reserved lots will be charged at 25p per lot. 10% of selling price will go to club funds. Any lots donated to club funds are gratefully received.

Future Events

BNS. 28th March

Lorna Goldsmith. Tickets and Passes to "scenes of gay delight": the 18th. century London Pleasure Gardens.

Coin Fair. Saturday 18th. March. Commonwealth Institute. Kensington. London W8.

Coin Fair Sunday 12th March. National Motor Cycle Museum Bickenhill Birmingham.

Spring Coinex. Fri/Sat 24th/25th. March. Old Swan Hotel, Swan Road, Harrogate

20 Years ago.

Thirty members turned up for Marion Archibald's talk about a 15C. Scottish merchant, named Halliberton, who traded in the Netherlands. He kept a ledger of the various coins that he received and the amount allowed against each coin. This list is useful in that it gives an account of the coins that circulated and the value of them against other coins.