Jun 24 ^th 2024.

Next club meeting Monday 1^st July 2024.

Subject – Metal Detecting By John Horn

August 2024.

· Summer Social – Trip to the Royal Mint

Monday September 4^th

· TBA By TBA

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

Notices

The Summer Social for members and partners this year will be a trip to the Royal Mint. Would members who have signed up for the trip please pay £25 per person at the July meeting.

Coin News has been in touch, they’d like some articles from us if anyone is interested?

“COIN NEWS would be interested to hear from members who would like to share details of their collection in the form of an article with our readers. This could be a general collection or a particular coin, banknote, token or medallion you own, once owed, wish you owned or are trying to locate.”

You can e-mail them on Jayne@tokenpublishing.com

June Meeting

Minutes of the AGM

Gavin opened the meeting. Twenty members attended. Apologies were received from Tony, Peter and David.

The previous year’s minutes were approved (proposer Neil, Seconded Michael). There were no matters arising

The next item on the agenda was the combined committee report, circulated with the last newsletter. Neil informed us that Albert Byde’s collection had not been sold as was expected. The report was accepted ((proposer Alastair, Seconded James). There were no points raised by the membership and no points raised by the committee.

Neil reported that the accounts had been audited and agreed.

There then followed the elections.

The committee was elected unopposed, proposed by Michael and seconded by Ian. There were no nominations from the floor.

Neil was retained as auditor, proposed by Graham and seconded by Stuart.

Gavin continues as President, proposed by John and seconded by Will.

Graham proposed a formal vote of thanks to the committee and Henry proposed a vote of thanks to Michael for his work in the 60^th celebrations after which Gavin closed the AGM.

Annual Display Competition

There were four entries, once again a very good showing.

The first display was from Jawaid, with a collection of George III shillings showing most of the available busts. He hadn’t brought along the Bank of England 1787 types because of lack of space but had brought along a date run of the ‘Bull head’ versions.

Next we had John who explained that he came back to collecting, after forming his first collection from change in 1966, when he was in America. With time on his hands he went along to his Wells Fargo bank and sorted through ‘pennies’ (American cents) in $50 lots trying to form a collection. This mirrored his first collection which began with UK pennies from his pocket money. Having tediously gone through all this he finally found a coin shop where you could buy the more recent years in a ‘penny board’ (Whitman folder) in sparkling condition for about $5.

The American penny series is quite interesting, with the older ‘large’ cents followed by the Flying Eagle type, the Indian heads, the Lincoln/wheatsheaf types (including steel ones from the War years) the Lincoln Memorial reverses and yet more types in the last few years. He also had an example of a two-cent coin and a silver three cent coin.

Also about this time the Susan B. Anthony dollar was issued and John related how he hunted for one in New York while sightseeing, sadly with no luck until he went to get the train home and got some in change from a machine in Grand Central Station!

Having returned to England he then began updating his original 1966 collection and joined Reading Coin Club.

After that we had James with some Piedfort Sovereigns from modern times. The particular coins James brought along illustrated three obverses and three reverses all within two years of each other. Namely the 2022 Piedfort sovereign, the 2022 Elizabeth II Memorial Piedfort sovereign and the 2023 Charles III Piedfort sovereign. James was particularly drawn to the Memorial reverse which is a stunning design. Other years are available that have two obverses and reverses within a couple of years (1836/87) but no one could come up with three.

Finally, we had Will with a run of UK proof sets from 1983 to 2009. He revealed that he hadn’t needed to buy them all, because his granny bought quite a few of them for him as a birthday present each year. He pointed out that it was particularly appropriate to bring them along now, as it was his birthday on the weekend. The collection nicely shows off the change in our coinage with some coins disappearing (1/2p) and others changing size (5/10p) and some of the commemorative pieces that were issued in that period. Will stopped buying them in 2010 because the Mint no longer produced an affordable set each year with all the circulating denominations and you needed to buy several different sets to get one of each.

Following a vote by the members present, Jawaid came top of the poll.

Thank you to all the members who made the effort to put together a display and keep this important tradition going in the club.

Congratulations go to Jawaid for a stunning quality collection! A well deserved and popular win.

Future Events.

· Midland Coin Fair – National Motorcycle Museum 14^th July

Past Events

• June has traditionally been the AGM and Display Competition.

Club Secretary.