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THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE PALM BEACH COIN CLUB

September 2017 Volume 27, Number 9

September 2017 Events Presidents Message September 3 Wednesday, September 13th is Free Food Gold Coast Coin, Stamp & Collectible Show Night. We will have pizza, calzone, Stromboli, Mardi Gras Casino, Hallandale subs, and desserts. We eat at 6PM. September 10 Coin, Stamp and Collectible Show Wednesday, October 11th is Special Auction Eau Gallie Civic Center, Melbourne #3. This will be over 100 lots of mostly September 13 certified coins. There is a 5% buyers and PBCC Meeting: Doors open at 5:00PM sellers fee on this auction only. The complete Meeting Begins at 7:00PM list will be in the October newsletter.  Free Food Night  November 8th is club nominations of officers September 17 and Board (8-12 members) with the election on Coin and Stamp Show November 22nd. Volunteer Park Community Center, Plantation

September 24 Wednesday, December 13th is our Pot Luck PBCC Coin Show Dinner, White Elephant Sale, and awards night. American Polish Club, Everyone should bring a covered dish such as 4725 Lake Worth Rd., Greenacres green beans, pasta, salad, etc. The club will September 27 supply the meat & drinks. For the White PBCC Meeting: Doors open at 5:00PM Elephant Sale, please bring something that the Meeting begins at 7:00PM club can auction off for the benefit of the SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT club, such as household goods, numismatic 1 2 items (books, folders, lights, coins), TV, radio, a scale, paintings, etc. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Tony

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ANA World’s Fair of Money Denver, CO 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 August 1-5, 2017

24 25 26 27 28 29 30 The ANA show was held at the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver, CO. The convention center was massive and multi- level. The coin show was on the second floor had a silent auction. Saturday morning I right with meeting room’s downstairs center. attended the ANA District Representative There were 322 dealer booths manning 464 meeting. We had 30 there including ANA tables. Attending the show were: The US Mint, President Gary Adkins and ANA Executive B.E.P., eight World Mints, 30 specialty club Director Kim Kiick. The Heritage Auction meetings, The Museum Showcase, Kid’s Zone & realized $30.8 million. StacksBowers auction Treasure Trivia, Exhibit area, Coin Collector realized over $19 million. 101, 20 club tables, and Whitman Publishing (coin supplies). There were 15 “Money Talks” At the FUN table, we gave out FUN Topics, educational programs. magnifiers, lanyards, medals, and lapel pins. We had lots of free tootsie rolls & Hersey candy. On display were the 1913 Liberty Nickel (five Cindy sold tables for our January FUN show in known), 1804 Silver Dollar (15 known), A 1783 Tampa. Cindy & I judged exhibits. I gave a talk Nova Constellatio in silver, reported to be the on Obsolete currency and I passed out first struck US coin, graded nomination forms for Numismatic Ambassador SP-68, two 1933 $20 St. Gaudens (11 known), Award. 1974-D Aluminum Cent, Colorado Territorial Gold & Currency, and 18 Lesher Dollars. The Awards given to Florida recipients were:

Exhibit area had 60 exhibits. The Best of nd Central Florida Coin Club - 2 Place, Best Show was “The Colorized Seal Notes of Club Electronic Newsletter. Colonial Georgia” by Robert Rhue. The People’s nd Choice award went to “Rush to the Rockies, Robert Leneve, Palm Beach Coin Club, 2 The Golden Growth of the Denver Mint” by Place Heath Literary Award for “The 1861-O Jeff Rosinia. There were 51 exhibit judges. Proof Half Dollar”. Robert Mellor, South Brevard Coin Club, The Sheraton Denver Downtown was the host Outstanding District Representative of the hotel. It was six blocks from the convention Year. center. The hotel was on the 16th street Nancy Wilson, Ocala Coin Club, 2nd Place Pedestrian Mall, a mile-long street with shops exhibit, “The Battleship Note”. and restaurants. No vehicles were allowed on the mall, only free shuttle buses. The US Mint Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez, FUN Topics was two and a half blocks from the hotel. Mint Editor, Numismatic Literary Guild Award for tour tickets were available at the coin show Best Paper Money Article, “Women Find a Place for free. My wife and I went to the US Mint, on Three US Bank Notes”, COINage Magazine. the Federal Reserve Money Museum, and the Colorado History Museum. Recently Published The airport was about 20 miles NE of Proof Varieties downtown and the cab fare was $65. The By Keith Sanger weather was great with temperatures around

85 degrees in the day and 60 degrees at night, Recently, a well-known guide book to varieties with no humidity. printed volume six “6” and with it came a new

list of coins for me to find/search/hunt. I will The ANA Banquet was Friday night at the point out, although the book covers half cents Sheraton. Awards were announced, the new to nickels, I only collect Proof Jefferson ANA officers & Board were installed, and they nickels and this is what I will cover. So, what are the newly listed varieties? at the Hollywood show I bought a 1969-S Remember, I collect Proof Jeffersons: Proof set ($6.00) and sent in the nickel. Yes, it too came back graded as a variety, (1969-S 1. 1938 Re-Engraved Die 401 RPM). I listed this coin on eBay at the low 2. 1938 Re-Engraved Die 402 price of $499.00 and it sold. This was from 3. 1938 Re-Engraved Die 403 the dealer who said he checked his coins for 4. 1952 Re-Engraved Die 401 varieties. OK! 5. 1952 Re-Engraved Die 402

6. 1952 Re-Engraved Die 403 So take a look at your proof Jefferson 7. 1952 Re-Engraved Die 404 nickels and you might have something more 8. 1953 Re-Engraved Die 401 than what you think and if you have any 9. 1954 Re-Engraved Die 401 questions, feel free to catch me at the club 10. 1969-S Repunched Mintmark meetings. I should have my name tag on and I 11. 1971-S Doubled-Die Reverse am always willing to talk Proof Jefferson 12. 1990-S Doubled-Die Obverse nickels. More next month.

Yes, I have a lot of coins to look for and what a surprise and shock to see all of the above listed coins recently added to the “PCGS 1938 PALM BEACH COIN CLUB – Present Complete Variety” set registry President: Tony Swicer program. All of these coins left huge holes for Vice President: Richard Spencer all those variety sets, to include my own set. Secretary: Bruce Eleshewich Treasurer: Robert Leneve My plan is to cover each variety by the Director of YNs: Dan Pecoraro specific year and make everyone more Editor: Rick Carver knowledgeable. I have found, even though Board of Directors: individuals (i.e. dealers at coin shows) tell me Tony Acevedo Rick Carver they have searched through their coins for Jack Diaz varieties, I keep finding them. Buddy Hirsh George Kovacic Kelley McDougall So, for this month I will not cover any of the Tim Morley varieties above, but I can tell you after looking Ed Napoli ANA Member Club through what I already had within my Sandy Pearl Ed Polyanchek collection, I found three from the coins listed Alan Liemer above and sent them to PCGS for variety James Wagner grading. Each coin did in fact come back with Meetings held at: the variety listed and one coin is at the top of American Polish Club 4725 Lake Worth Road, Greenacres the population with 14 graded PR68 and only Telephone: 964-7236 one graded PR68 RED-402, the very coin I sent Website: pbcc.anaclubs.org in. “DISCLAIMER” The PBCC Newsletter is published for the purpose of disseminating Again, if the dealers tell you “I have already numismatic news, club information, and educational material. Articles in the Newsletter are the opinions of the authors and are not looked through my coins”. KEEP LOOKING! necessarily those of the Editor, the Officers or the Board of Three months ago I found a 1971-S Proof Directors. All authors are fully responsible for the information in their articles and its accuracy. Articles submitted for publication that Jefferson nickel at the West Palm Beach coin the Club Officers, the Board of Directors, or the Editor may deem inappropriate for the Newsletter, will be rejected. show. I bought it for $1.50 and sent it to PCGS. It is now in my registry set and only one of two coins with this such variety. Additional, PBCC Membership Application 324 Members and Growing! Dues are $15 for the year

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