December 2008.
Next club meeting - Monday 5th January 2008.
Meetings are held at the Abbey Baptist Church, Abbey Square, commencing at 7.00 p.m.
December meeting
As last year, twenty-six members braved a cold December evening to attend the members’ meeting and everybody appeared to thoroughly enjoy it. Several of the members brought along their own bits and pieces to trade and augmented the usual run of dealers.
Once again Henry provided the food, this year including smoked salmon in addition to the usual mince pies, cheese, biscuits and other goodies. Henry received a round of applause for doing such a good job.
Four members provided interesting displays.
Michael had a range of older banknotes of differing denomination, issuer and signatures.
Neil talked about a Franklin Mint halfpenny.
Graham talked about paper tokens.
Gavin had a display of two common countermarked Napoleon III 10 Centime pieces (Pears and Empire Immense Success Theatre) and one very rare with both countermarks.
As last year, there was a quiz which Gavin Scott had organised, details given below and answers to follow in next month’s newsletter for those of you not there on the night. It was a close competition and came down to a tie-break between Neil Beaton and Frank Milward. After five tie-break questions Neil finally got his nose ahead of Frank and won the competition.
A very entertaining evening and one firmly fixed in the Club’s calendar.Future Meetings
The next meeting is the annual Short Talks evening. If any member is willing to talk on any numismatically related subject to try and win the Marc Myhill Memorial shield for this season, please contact a member of the committee.
The club auction is due to take place at the February meeting. Please bring along your coins, medals, tokens, banknotes and any other numismatic material to the January meeting and hand them to any committee member. If we all put in just a few lots we can make this an enjoyable and successful evening. The auction commission charge will be 10% of the hammer price.
Numismatic Quiz
Future Events.
Past Events.
In December 1978 Michael Broome spoke on "Islamic Coins".
In December 1988, we had Short Talks by Members.
Ten years ago in 1998, Paul Jenkins talked on the Role of Coins in Archaeology.
Last but not least - A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all our readers.