January 2001 Newsletter

January 25^th 2001.

Next club meeting Monday 5^th February 2001.

This will be the talk that we should have had in December. John Keyworth is coming to talk to us about Banknotes, this I am sure will be another fascinating aspect of numismatics. Maurice will provide the member's display, with a selection of notes from his collection and should any other member have any interesting notes, then perhaps they could bring those as well.

Meetings are held at the Abbey Baptist Church, Abbey Square, commencing at 7.00 p.m.

January meeting.

This was our annual club auction, which was well attended with some good brisk bidding. There were 121 lots of which only 8 remained unsold. A total of £432-95 was paid for the lots and the club earned £56-44 from commission and lots donated for club funds, a creditable effort.

Our grateful thanks go to Frank who was the auctioneer and to other members who assisted in making the evening go smoothly and yourselves for attending.

Two dealer tables opened at the end of the auction and nineteen members attended

Puzzle

With this newsletter I am enclosing a little puzzle to tax your memory. I will give the answers at the February meeting.

New Books for the Library

The following books have been added to the library:

Adrian Room	Dictionary of Coin Names	1987
Gouby M	The British Bronze Coinage Pence, Halfpence and Farthings	2000
Linecar	The Crown Pieces of Great Britain	1962
Mackay J.A	History of Modern English Coinage Henry VII to Elizabeth II	1984
Seaby	Standard Catalogue of British Coins. 33rd Ed.	1998
Linecar H.	British Commonwealth Coinage	1958
Spink	Medallic Illustrations of British History Vol. 1&2	1978

These books were donated by Will, apart from Michael's.

Future Events.

London Coin Fair. Saturday 3^rd February. Cumberland Hotel London W1.

Banknote Fair. Sunday 4^th February. Bonnington Hotel, Southampton Row. London WC1.

Coin Fair. Saturday 17^th February. Commonwealth Institute. Kensington. London W8.

20 Years ago.

I appear to have a gap in my records of the meetings from 20 years ago so this will need to be held in abeyance for the time being. However since I cannot do 20 years, I will do 30 years instead!

Meeting held on 2nd February 1971 at the Reading Museum was a talk given by Mr. A.F.J. White whose subject was The History of Calculating Machines. At that time we still had £sd (just) which probably makes my little puzzle all the more interesting.

17th Century tokens

I have a non member friend who collects 17^th Century tokens of Windsor and who wishes to purchase items to improve his collection. He will pay cash or exchange for similar tokens of Reading. Any enquiries to me please.