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German Notgeld Emergency Money of World War I John Duff Numismatic Spring 2019 California State Association of V. 16, No. 1 Numismatic Southern California $9.95 Association The Literary Awards, California page 7... Numismatist The California Numismatist Official Publication of the California State Numismatic Association and the Numismatic Association of Southern California Spring 2019, Volume 16, Number 1 About the Cover The California Numismatist Staff The New Year’s Eve view of the Editor Greg Burns fireworks in San Francisco overlooking the P.O. Box 1181 Oakland Bay Bridge from a vantage point Claremont, CA 91711 in Oakland, with an explosion of numis- [email protected] matic images culled from the pages of this issue. Hope your 2019 is starting out on a Club Virginia Bourke similarly exciting footing. Reports 10601 Vista Camino South Lakeside, CA 92040 [email protected] Club Michael S. Turrini Reports P.O. Box 4003 North Vallejo, CA 94590-0400 [email protected] Visit Us on the Web The California Numismatist has a Web Advertising Philip L. De Augustino site at www.CalNumismatist.com. You 951-219-2068 can find the official scoop there in between [email protected] issues. Also, both CSNA and NASC main- tain their own Web sites at: www.Calcoin.org www.NASC.net And both associations have Facebook pages at: www.facebook.com/CSNA1947 www.facebook.com/NASC- 704859806311445 2 The California Numismatist • Spring 2019 Contents Articles My Fascination for Civil War Currency Bill Febuary ................................................................................................... 10 The McKittrick Penny Bar Phil Iversen .................................................................................................... 14 From Silver to Nickel, But Always Five Cents Mark Benvenuto ............................................................................................. 18 I Have a Fascination for Tokens Bill Febuary ................................................................................................... 22 Grandpa’s Coin Collection Jim Wells ........................................................................................................ 24 A True Tale: St. Joseph and the Air Mail Medal Donald Lannon .............................................................................................. 30 Precipitous Plunge—the 1870 Medals and Jetons of Napoleon III Ross Irvin ....................................................................................................... 42 German Notgeld Emergency Money of World War I John Duff ........................................................................................................ 48 Mistakes I Made as a New Numismatist Bill Febuary ................................................................................................... 54 Columns Presidents’ Messages Michael Kittle and Dennis Hogan ................................................ 4 Editor’s Page Greg Burns ................................................................................................ 6 California Token Spotlight Merle Avila ......................................................................... 47 It Makes Cents Dr. Sol Taylor ........................................................................................ 56 ANA Report Jim Hunt ................................................................................................... 61 The Emerging Hobbyist Michael S. Turrini................................................................... 64 Numismatic Luminary Jim Hunt ................................................................................... 69 ANA Educational Outreach Walt Ostromecki ................................................................ 70 Association Reports Corresponding Secretaries’ Reports ................................................................................. 8 Association News Items and Events (starting on page) ................................................. 58 Farewells ....................................................................................................................... 68 Goings On ...................................................................................................................... 72 Around the State ............................................................................................................ 74 Everything Else NASC Membership Application ................................................................................... 29 CSNA Membership Application .................................................................................... 63 We Get Letters ............................................................................................................... 66 Directory of Member Clubs ........................................................................................... 82 Numismatic Nostalgia .................................................................................................... 85 Calendar of Events ......................................................................................................... 86 Advertisers Index ........................................................................................................... 87 Officers, Boards, and Chairs .......................................................................................... 88 Writing for The California Numismatist ........................................................................ 90 Spring 2019 • The California Numismatist 3 Presidents’ Messages NASC... With the coming of spring, also comes the ANA’s National Coin Week. This year, National Coin Week takes place April 21-27, 2019, with the theme of “Discover the Past, Envision the Future.” As you may know, the ANA hosts various activities during this annual event in an attempt to engage its members and increase their interest in numismatics. This year during National Coin Week, there will also be an effort by a national group of coin dealers to help spread awareness of our beloved hob- by. Together, the dealers are pledging to introduce over one million collect- ible coins into circulation throughout the country. Various coins including wheat cents, buffalo nickels, steel cents, silver dimes, proof coins of all types and more will be put into circulation. The hope is that members of the public will find some of these older coins in their change and might become interested in coin collecting. Perhaps you will be one of the lucky ones to find something neat in change this April? National Coin Week is a great time for you to take action as well. If you are reading this, I know that you already have a strong interest in numismatics. Hopefully, your interest is strong enough that you wish to share it with others. This is not hard for you to do! It can something quite passive and easy like spending a few older coins or including them in a tip the next time you eat out. Or you can take a more active approach and reach out to a friend or family member who you think might enjoy our hobby. Sharing a few inexpensive col- lector coins along with a coin folder and maybe a Red Book can go a long way towards sparking interest within a new collector. You could also share the gift of membership in a numismatic organization like the ANA or the NASC. In fact, any of you who are able to sign up two new members to NASC during National Coin Week only needs to submit dues for one of them if you submit the applica- tions to me; I’ll personally cover the dues of the other! Again, thank you for your continued support of NASC. Michael J. Kittle NASC President 4 The California Numismatist • Spring 2019 CSNA... Hello everyone. I’m Dennis Hogan and I’ll be your president for the next two years. I’m originally from Daven- port, Iowa, where in August 1946 Dr. Calvert L. Emmons, attending an ANA convention, came up with the idea to form a California numismatic associa- tion. I joined the Air Force in 1965, got married and had two boys. I retired in Mesa, AZ, after 20 years. I then went to work for Maricopa County in Arizo- na for five years as a contracts special- ist. The next ten were spent in hospital administration at El Centro Regional Medical Center in California where I retired in 2000. My last job was eight years in school administration for Mt. San Jacinto College, retiring in 2008. I started collecting 40 years ago, but never got serious about it until 2008. I generally collect everything from the United States mint plus panda bear coins from China. I have a large collection of coins ranging from the early 1800 to 2019 pandas. I also collect large and small currency, military scrip, fractionals, colonial, civil war and obsolete currency. As you know things have changed in the collecting field. When I was in grade school the only place you could get coins was a bank, a coin shop, or your pocket. Now the list is endless, including your wallet, your pocket, banks/credit unions, coin dealers/stores, auctions, on- line, US mint, Ebay, coin shows, coin magazines, other collectors, and of course coin clubs. One of the joys of collecting is the beauty and history of money. 2018 passed with record speed, Christmas and New Year’s came quick. Now it’s time to make your New Year resolutions. I hope to help you with an easy resolution. CSNA needs your assistance. The same members perform various jobs year after year. These folks do a remarkable job. Unfortunately, our current base is getting on in age and could use help. We need help with the library, coin shows, a reporter for TCN, members of the
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