April 2007

Next club meeting Monday 12th May 2007. Please note the late date for this meeting due to the Bank Holiday. Unfortunately our speaker for the evening is unable to appear so instead one of our club members has stepped in at the last minute to entertain us with a talk on...

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

April meeting.

Tony Holmes visited the club once again to tell us about his finds in ‘junk’ boxes and challenged the club members to identify a wide variety of coins. Here are some of them:

  1. Gital of Shahis of Kabul – copied for 500 years and 481 types listed by Robert Tighe
  2. Iran Mohamad Shah Kran of Yazd (Written as ‘Abode of Piety’)
  3. Chinese cash coin of Chen Lung mint of ‘che’ (short for Chekiang) the capital is Hanchow so the coin was probably minted there
  4. Scottish twopence or bodle of Charles II, equivalent to 1/6th penny English
  5. Copper courte of Charles V of Spain, struck for the Spanish Netherlands
  6. Hans Krawinkel Jeton of Nuremburg
  7. India Baroda 1 paisa dated 1948 Samvat era = 1891
  8. Dub of hyderabad under ruler ali Kahn. The 92 at the top relates to Mohamad
  9. Byzantine half Follis or 20 Nummi (K) of Thesalonika struck by Heraclius Constantine
  10. Lucca (in Italy) struck in the name of Otto IV a billon quatrino of 1558
  11. Another coin of Lucca, Conrad II or possibly by his succesors but with ???
  12. Indo Scythian Drachm of Azed II with a picture of Athena struck at Taxila (now in Pakistan) 1st Century BC
  13. Rajah Rajah Chola 985-1014AD of India
  14. Tancred Prince of Antioch 1204-1212 Follis
  15. Columbia, Santa Marta ¼ real of 1821 struck in copper
  16. Nepal showing Buddah’s feet under a crown 25 Paisa
  17. Grosso of Pavia struck by Frederick II Holy Roman Emperor
  18. Spanish copper coin revalued at 8 maravedis mint of Cadiz
  19. Tetericus I and Tetricus II Antoniniani
  20. Gallienus and Salonina Antoniani
  21. Marcian 450-457 minted at Constantinople – monogram
  22. Spain Biscayan republic (Euzkadi) 1937
  23. Square Spanish Dirham of the Almohads
  24. Copper coin of Barcelona struck by Louis XIV called an ardite 1641-1652
  25. Seljuk 1195-1203 Fals of Suleiman
  26. Early Indian 320BC to 80BC cast copper coin
  27. Tryphon Seleucid empire of Syria – helmet with Ibex horn – 142-139BC
  28. Bosnia – symbol of Bosnia triangle over stars

Club members managed to identify (more or less) somewhat more than half of the coins presented. A very interesting talk from Tony who has offered Part III!

Spring social - Skittles Evening

A group of fifteen, comprising members and partners, met at the Red Lion at Theale for the annual skittle match. The first game was a boys versus girls, convincingly(?) won by the boys 131 to 129. The highest scorer for the boys was Paul with 24 in nine skittles, whilst the highest score for the girls was Frank (an honorary member!) who scored 19. In the second game, where each player has three lives but MUST knock down at least one skittle each time Mick was victorious although ran very close by Jean. The final game also involves three lives, but each player is required to knock down ONLY one skittle each time. This was won by Simon, again with Jean coming second. A very enjoyable evening for all those who made the effort.

Committee Members

Once again we are approaching the end of the Year and are short of any volunteers to serve on the committee. While most of the current members will be staying on, we have one certain vacancy as Henry has to stand down by the rules of the Constitution. Please give some serious thought to the possibility of giving something back to the club by joining the committee.

Future Events.

Past Events

30 years ago our club was visited by the Hayes and District Coin Club

20 years ago Jonathon Morris gave a talk in two parts entitled “Numismatics: Is there a cure?” and “Notes on Edward I”

10 years ago a "Numismatic Brains Trust” was held