• Sunday, September 12, 2010
• Sunday, November 14, 2010

All meetings are held on the 6th floor at Bally’s Casino in Atlantic City at 11:00 a.m. Carpools are encouraged and I can take up to three ACNS members from Northfield.

Here are some of the more interesting casino chips that I saw at the show… and YES that’s a $22,500 ($5) chip from the Stardust in the lower left of the first picture!

There was an article about it on page 49 of the May 11, 2010 issue of Numismatic News. For more information, visit their Web site or contact President Jerry Birl at (302) 947-2978.

The meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. with a coin auction to follow. Attendees wishing to auction coins or paper currency can submit up to ten lots for a fee of two dollars. Proceeds from the auction benefit the club.
Members are encouraged to bring coins to show or to have evaluated by one of our resident experts. All numismatic questions are also encouraged. ACNS meetings are held monthly at the Linwood Library on the first Wednesday of each month.

See you in 2009!

Ray is the president of the Colonial Coin Collector’s Club and 2nd VP of the GSNA.  He collects and studies coinage that circulated in the British American Colonies and up until the opening of the Philadelphia Mint and collects NJ Coppers by die variety.

Ray is going to give a presentation called “The State Coinage of our Confederation Period” about the state coinages from NJ, VT, MA & CT from 1785 until 1788. The talk will give information about the people involved in the minting process, some of the contemporary economic situations, and the coins themselves. Ray is also well-versed in NJ coppers, colonial paper and in foreign coinage circulating in the colonies.

Join us for Ray’s presentation and a fun meeting on Wednesday, 5 November 2008 at 7:00 pm. More details are on the ACNS page.

Linwood Public Library
301 Davis Avenue
Linwood, New Jersey, 08221
(609) 926-7991
http://www.LinwoodLibrary.com/

Attached please find a press release for the meeting. Please forward it to your local newspaper and anyone that might be interested in attending.

The meeting will feature a coin auction which begins at 8 p.m. The fee is $2 for up to ten lots. Please complete the attached form (also online here: http://www.accoins.org/auction.pdf) and bring it with you to the meeting. If you plan on auctioning items please email me a list and I’ll send it to the group so that people can come prepared.

The September 2008 meeting of the Atlantic County Numismatic Society (ACNS) was held on September 3, 2008 at the Linwood library at 7pm and the theme was “Medals of the Olympics.”

Club president Jason O’Grady gave a presentation on how medals are part of the field of Numismatics and when better to discuss them than around the time of the Olympics? Medals were a timely topic for the meeting which took place just after the closing ceremonies of an amazing Summer 2008 Olympics in Being.

Some of the things that we learned included:

• Each Olympic medal must be at least 70mm across and 6mm thick.
• Gold medals contains 6 grams of gold and the remaining 92% is silver. The gold is gilted on to the silver.
• Silver medals contain 99% pure silver and the remaining 1% is raw unprocessed silver.
• Bronze medals contain 1% silver and the remaining 99% is what is called coinage bronze, which is made up of 97% copper (Cu), 2.5% zinc (Zn) and 0.5% tin (Sn).
• 10.5 Kg Of Gold, 1050 Kg of Silver, 1054 Kg of Copper was used for medals at the Beijing Olympics.

You can download the presentation here (1.5MB PDF). Requires Adobe Acrobat reader.

Reporter Jackie Hanusey visited our 06 August 2008 club meeting and interviewed Joe Medio, Mark Elder, YN Matthew Bye and myself. The half-page story also featured a color photo (at right) of club Secretary Tom Gullone and Mark Elder.

The story is available online on The Current Web site, when you browse the 14 Aug issue, it’s on page 27. I’ve also posted the article as JPG and PDF files.

The Atlantic County Numismatic Society (ACNS) held its inaugural auction at the March 5th meeting. 40+ were in attendance including 12 Boy Scouts from Troop #72 from Northfield, NJ who were on hand to earn their Coin Collecting Merit Badge.Club President and Merit Badge Counselor Jason D. O’Grady gave a presentation on “Coin Collecting 101″ which include such topics as U.S. mints, grading, storage and a coin glossary. The Scouts left the meeting with a series of freebies (donated by the members) including new Monroe Presidential dollars and a grab bag of federal and international issues. The enthusiastic Scouts stayed for the auction following the educational talk and dug deep into their savings to bid on and won several items.

“It was probably one of our best meetings ever, so much so that we’re going to make the auction a regular monthly event” said O’Grady, “we’re encouraged by the attendance of the Scouts and they’re invited back any time.”

Three additional pictures are posted in this gallery. The next ACNS meeting is on Wednesday, April 2 at 7 p.m. and more information can be found at www.accoins.org.