ODCC c/o Sharon MacLean, 607 Dorchester Dr. Oshawa, Ontario L1J 6L3 The Numismatic Reporter

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EXECUTIVE 2019 to 2020 he next meeting is APRILcan Doors open at 12:30

Past President : P.M.at Rundle Park Community Centre ( Located at Bruce Watt * Park & Gibb.). Remember the Oshawa & District Coin President Sharon MacLean Club is always open to friends and relatives. Please feel Vice President free to bring your friends and neighbors. Its nice to meet Terry Campbell Treasurer new people and you never know you may just generate Vic Shewchuk Secretary new interest in the hobby. Leslie Sanderson Librarian Club Contact: Mail: ODCC co/ Sharon Maclean 607 Dorchester Dr. Oshawa Ont. L1J-6L3 Vac. Email: [email protected] Club Hotline 905-728-1352 Club Web: www.oshawacoinclub.com News Editor Also check for the newsletter at *** Sharon MacLean *** www.sharlsshelties.com Directors Ed Keetch Marion Alexander NOTE!!! APR. MEETING CANCELLED !!!!! Ernie Ruch Mike Melnichuk Next COIN-A-RAMA OCT.24. Bob Holden Barry Dutton FROM THE PRES: A MOMENT OF REFLECTON It has now been a year since the onset of Covid. The tremendous loss of life is overwhelming 2,604.mil lives lost. I believe I heard this is equivalent Show chair Sharon MacLean to two world wars. I hope you will all take a minute with me to remember all those Membership who perished to this horrible virus. I extend my greatest thanks an gratitude to ALL Sharon MacLean the first responders who worked an still work so tirelessly in saving lives of thou- Education sands of people who would of otherwise would possibly have also died also without Vac. Website Editor their help. TBA Please Note;; temporally the news will be on my site for viewing. (link above)

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Mark Anthony unearthed in by isis Davis-Marks Feb.10/21 archaeologists in ancient Turkish city of have discovered a cache of 651 Roman coins in a vessel buried near a stream, reports Muharrem Cin for the state-run Anadolu Agency.“The jug was aimed to be kept [in place] by three terra- cotta plates covering it,” lead archaeologist Elif Özer of Pamukkale University tells the Hurriyet Daily News, adding that that the coins were likely buried during Emperor Augustus’ reign (27 B.C.—14 A.D.).The scholars concluded that 439 of the coins were denarii, a type of silver coin first introduced in the third century B.C., while 212 were cistophori, or silver coins from Pergamum, an city in what is now Turkey. Though the researchers discovered the coins in 2019, they weren’t able to examine them until recently due to the Covid-19 pandemic.In the statement, as translated by CNN’s Jack Guy, Özer describes the coins, which were minted in Southern Italy, as not only a “very special and unique collection,” but “the most special silver coin find of recent times.”Dated to between 75 and 4 B.C., the coins bear the im- ages of Roman emperors and politicians, including , Marcus Brutus and Mark Antony, writes Live Science’s Laura Geggel. When studying artifacts, researchers found that many of the coins were well-preserved, with their engrav- ings still legible. Özer theorizes that the denarii and cistophori were part of a coin album—a compilation of money por- traying rulers from the late Roman Republic—that belonged to an elite Roman soldier. Some of the coins were more val- uable than others.“A high-ranking soldier [likely] came to Aizanoi ... and he must have buried these coins here for a rea- son we do not know yet.According to Özer, each coin “tells a different story” drawn from mythology and popular lore. One token, for instance, portrays the Trojan hero Aeneas carrying his father, Anchises, on his back. As Mark Cartwright wrote for Ancient History Encyclopedia in 2018, denarii were the Romans’ most popular coins between 211 B.C. and the third century A.D. Cistophori were rarer than denarii, as they were only in circulation around Asia Minor, according to the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. The Daily Sabah reports that the team uncovered the coins as part of a broader restoration effort that began in 2011. Dubbed the Aizanoi Penkalas Project, the campaign seeks to offer riverboat tours that enable visitors to mirror the ancient Romans’ maritime journeys while exploring Aizanoi’s ancient ruins. Other artifacts discovered at the site include 1,000 Roman stones and sculptures and traces of a settlement dated to 3000 B.C., noted the Daily Sabah in a separate 2020 article. According to the Anadolu Agency, Özer and her colleagues plan to soon publish their findings in a scientific journal. For now, the coin collection will remain on display at the Museum of Anato- lian Civilizations in the Turkish capital of Ankara.

North America's second bitcoin ETF launches in Canada today

On the same day bitcoin’s market cap crossed US$1 trillion for the first time, investors got a second ETF option with the launch of the Evolve Bitcoin ETF on the TSX. It’s the second bitcoin ETF to launch in Canada this week, following the Purpose Bitcoin ETF (BTTC.B) (BTCC.U) yesterday. It’s also the sec- ond of its kind in North America, with the U.S. still not approving one. Canadian dollar-denominated unhedged units trade under ticker symbol EBIT and U.S. dollar-denominated unhedged units under EBIT.U with an annual management fee of 1 per cent. EBIT ended the day up 6.7% with a volume of 355,000 shares. EBIT.U was up 7.6% with 103,000 shares trading hands. “The recent institutional adoption has helped further legitimize the progress of bitcoin,” said Raj Lala, Evolve President and CEO in a release. “Being able to offer an ETF which holds physical bitcoin is a real game changer in Canada. Now investors may participate in bitcoin via their brokerage accounts within their RRSP and TFSA. Bitcoin has proven to be a store of value that is uncorrelated to other major asset clas- ses – and has now emerged as an asset class itself.” Captions will look like this 0:07 5:25. Like the BTCC, EBIT’s ETF structure means it aims to track the price of bitcoin better than closed-end funds and exchange traded notes, because of the premium that comes with those products. Evolve says EBIT doesn’t rely on derivatives or futures contracts. The daily net asset value (NAV) will be based on the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate. The bitcoin the ETF buys will be held in a cold wallet. Gemini Trust Company will act as the sub-custodian in respect of EBIT’s holdings of bitcoin. Bitcoin got a stamp of approval from Tesla earlier this month when the company announced it was buying US$1.5 billion of the notoriously volatile cryptocurrency. But earlier this week the Bank of Canada’s deputy governor Timothy Lane warned cryptocurrencies are a “speculative mania” and a “flawed method of payment”. The price of bitcoin is up 81 per cent this year and topped US$53,000 US today. Jessy Bains is a senior reporter at Yahoo Finance Canada. Follow him on Twitter @jessysbains. Feb 19th 2021

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A scarab, an Egyptian seal in the shape of a scarab beetle, has been discovered in the ancient city of Pontica, located in northern Turkey's province. The seal could be up to 3,000 years old, according to initial observations, and it may shed light on the history of the region during the . Archeological work in the ancient city has been ongoing since 2004. The current excavation team is under the leadership of Burcu Erciyas, a professor at Middle East Technical University (METU). Erciyas believes that the recent discovery can reveal the international importance that the city of Comana held during the Hellenistic period.“ We have discovered many new findings in 2020 with extensive excavation work. Maybe the most interesting one of these has been the scarab from Egypt, which is a beetle-shaped seal or amulet adorned with hieroglyphic inscriptions. This is an important finding regarding Comana’s international relations,” Erciyas told Anadolu Agency (AA). She also provided details on the age of the seal. “We studied the hieroglyphs on the seal and the inscribed name be- longed to Thutmose III, the sixth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, who ruled between the years of 1479 B.C. and 1429 B.C.,” Erciyas said. “There have been other scarabs of Thutmose III discovered in archeological sites, some even in Anatolia, which show that these amu- lets were used up until the fourth or fifth century B.C.” Archeological digging and excavations in Comana Pontica have revealed centuries or even millennia-old history of ancient structures, monuments and works belonging to a wide range of historical states including the Otto- man, Seljuk and Roman periods. So far, a burial plot, churches and a settlement area have been unearthed.It is believed thatthe ancient city was founded under the Kingdom of during the reign of Mithridates I in the Hellenistic period, the time between eth death of in 323 B.C. and the emergence of the around 31 B.C. Comana Pontica was originally a sacred roug nd with a Hittite temple in its center dedicated to the goddess Ma, a local Anatolian goddess meaning“ mother” who also bore the epithets “Invincible” and “Bringer of Victory.” The city became a center of trade and commerce in time and retained its independence during the rise of the Roman Empire. It attracted many visitors with its regular festivals, rich marketplace and fertile land. Titlede th Comana Pontica Archeological Research Project, the site has been under the archeological lens of METU and the Scientific and Technologicalese R arch Coun- cil of Turkey (TUBITAK). The work is still ongoing and excavations to further unearth the ancient city’s rich historical texture are underway.

Institutional Support Is Coming To Bitcoin Roger HuangContributor Feb 24, 2021,

The story of bitcoin has been one of a rapid rise recently, at least when it comes to short-term prices. In 2017, the story centred on the frenzy of retail investors who started getting interested in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and started figuring out how to navigate the rise of initial coin offerings. Now, in 2020 and 2021, the support seems to be coming from quasi-institutional forces— from high net-worth individuals to family offices for some of the most wealthy people on Earth to hedge funds such as Paul Tudor Jones. Yet, what gives one pause to think — and perhaps some not-so-unwelcome hope — is the idea that institutional support is coming around the corner or is already here from the largest publicly traded com- panies in the world, and governments/sovereign wealth funds and central banks. While a lot of central bankers and gov- ernments have been put on record as being against bitcoin, everybody from the PRC’s central government to the President of the ECB, there are small breaks in the fabric of true institutional support for bitcoin. Local municipalities in the United States are starting to think about putting their city treasury into bitcoin. This was most notable with Miami mayor Francis Suarez, but there are other politicians on state and even federal level with pro-bitcoin views such as Colorado governor Jared Polis, and Wyoming Senator Lummis. Those with control over local and state treasuries can not only help pass bitcoin -friendly legislation, they can use their city budgets or state treasuries to directly purchase bitcoin, as Miami is currently considering. Local governments in the United States might then set examples for cities around the world. While central and federal governments and nation-states as well as central banks might be slower to adapt and purchase bitcoin, a younger generation of leadership in federated localities can push the drive of bitcoin forward as part of policy experimentation, with enough time that a generation of more bitcoin-friendly politicians and regulators might take over at higher levels. Publicly traded companies have started embracing bitcoin as well, most prominently with MicroStrategy MSTR and Michael Saylor and Tesla TSLA with their recent $1.5bn buy.

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It is with a profound heavy heart that I announce the passing of our very long time member Mr. ED KEETCH on March 15th 2021. ED was the last of the remaining founders of the Oshawa An District Coin Club A exceedingly wonderful man and well like by all. It was his wish that no service or other was to be held. So I will be making a donation on the clubs behalf to his chari- ty. I apologize for I do not know all of Eds credits but do know he was in the military and served in several different positions of the coin club over the years. Our sincerest condolences to his family and friends

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