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www.canadiancoinnews.ca An essential resource for the CANADIAN advanced and beginning collector Maritime Pages COIN NEWS TRENDS: Coins 14-17 Volume 58 • Number 03 May 12 - 25, 2020 $5.50 How to properly insure your coin collection By Jesse Robitaille items – at Hugh Wood Canada Anything with a value can Insuring a coin collection is (HWC), which handles insur- be insured, and many people like insuring anything else you ance policies for members of across Canada – not just col- own. the Royal Canadian Numis- lectors – own something that’s A collection of coins – or matic Association and Ameri- worth insuring. banknotes, tokens, medals and can Numismatic Association. “Collectors should always other numismatic items – can Collection insurance is “very buy insurance,” according to be insured for a “catastrophic broad and covers a very large Puvanendran. “It is important loss.” In the insurance busi- span of collectible items,” Pu- that individuals can relax ness, this refers to a severe, un- vanendran added. knowing that their collection expected loss. Similar to insur- “This can go from the most is properly covered in the ing a house, its contents or any common being coins but in- event the worst happens, While some collectors are focusing on research and other personal possessions (ex- cludes other items such as whether it be at their own writing, Paul Johnson, Royal Canadian Numismatic cluding your car, which is man- stamps, military memorabilia premises or kept at a safety Association executive secretary, is working on organizing datory), people can insure their all the way up to comic books, deposit box.” his extensive medal collections. collections. baseball cards and more.” Continued on page 20 “Collection insurance is very common in my experience,” said Jananni Puvanendran, Collectors keeping busy manager of collectibles – such as coins and other numismatic under COVID-19 lockdown Hugh Wood Canada, By Jesse Robitaille As March turned into founded by late collector etween writing, research- April, much of Canada was Hugh Wood, handles ing, cataloguing and brows- placed under even stricter insurance policies for ingB online offerings to add to shelter-in-place and social- members of the Royal their collections, Canadian nu- distancing orders, which are Canadian Numismatic mismatists have no shortage of now expected to last “several Association. tasks to stay busy while under weeks, perhaps several lockdown. months,” according to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Publications Registration Mail No. 09137 Agreement No. 40069699 Mail No. 09137 Agreement Publications Registration These measures – meant to Trajan’s ‘National Show’ goes virtual stop the spread of COVID-19 By Jesse Robitaille – have put an end to all physi- cal shows, meetings, auctions While the April 4-5 National Postage Stamp & Coin Show was cancelled, organizers with and other numismatic events. Trajan Media – publisher of CCN and Canadian Stamp News – decided to bring the bourse online In the meantime, Jim that weekend. MacKenzie, a member of the It would’ve been the ninth Saskatoon Coin Club, has de- National Postage Stamp & voted his alone time to photo- Coin Show since Trajan ac- graphing thousands of Sas- quired the rights to the Na- katchewan merchant trade tional Postage Stamp Show tokens for an “enormous proj- from the Canadian Stamp ect” led by fellow club mem- Dealers Association five years ber Ron Rogal. ago. “He has taken over the task Instead, in response to the of maintaining Cecil Tanna- COVID-19 pandemic, Trajan hill's catalogue by investigat- Continued on page 6 ing and adding the tokens that have been discovered af- The National Postage ter the catalogue was last Stamp & Coin Show printed,” said MacKenzie, – Virtual Edition – was held who added the first edition of via Facebook Groups on April 4-5. 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