North York Coin Club Founded 1960 MONTHLY MEETINGS 4TH Tuesday 7:30 P.M. AT Edithvale Community Centre, 131 Finch Ave. W., North York M2N 2H8 MAIL ADDRESS: NORTH YORK COIN CLUB, 2001 Albion Road, Units #19 & 20, Toronto ON M9W 6V6 Web site: www.northyorkcoinclub.com Contact the Club : Executive Committee E-mail: [email protected] President ........................................Bill O’Brien Director ..........................................Roger Fox Auction Manager..........................Paul Johnson Phone: 416-897-6684 1st Vice President ..........................Henry Nienhuis Director ..........................................Paul Johnson Editor ..........................................Paul Petch 2nd Vice President.......................... Director ..........................................Andrew Silver Receptionist ................................Franco Farronato Member : Secretary ........................................Henry Nienhuis Junior Director ................................ Draw Prizes ................................Bill O’Brien Treasurer ........................................Ben Boelens Auctioneer ......................................Dick Dunn Social Convenor ..........................Bill O’Brien Ontario Numismatic Association Past President ................................Nick Cowan Royal Canadian Numismatic Assocation THE BULLETIN FOR MARCH 2019 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE NEXT MEETING A blustery and cold, hello to fellow club The next item on the docket today is some TUESDAY, MARCH 26 numismatists and everyone else who receives preparation before attending the meeting this the North York Coin Club’s monthly bulletin. month. Remember to bring lots of cash in We start gathering in the Banquet Room on the first floor of the I remember vividly recently, actually it was both coinage and small bills as it just makes nd Edithvale Community Centre at 7:00 February 2 , 2019 awaiting the news from my our auction run a lot smoother. Look over all p.m. with meeting start scheduled friend, Marmota monax, about his forecast the available lots to determine which items for 7:30 p.m. or probability of good weather soon. I was you will be likely to bid on. Be prepared to bid The feature for our March meeting is hoping to get out and attend some coin shows when the items on your want list are ready to an auction of some very interesting and soon and I was wondering if his inside be auctioned off. And the last bit of advice for varied consigned items from our members. information about the weather would help me the auction is get to the meeting early to view Everyone is invited to the meeting. You plan my numismatic schedule. After getting all lots of interest so as not hold up the action don’t have to be a club member to his prediction of an early spring I happily because you want to look at the piece being participate. Because we have so much filled in my calendar for the next few month’s bid on. We have over 100 items to auction off auction material, we are unable to accept knowing spring was just around the corner. so please be prepared, so the night will run additional auction items at this meeting. What a LIAR my friend in Wiarton turned out smoothly, unlike last month’s Game Night. The last two pages of this issue is the to be! For everybody reading this, do not listen The annual coin show, sponsored by the auction catalogue. Notice that this to that little rodent in the future, as his club, will be held in the same spot and time as catalogue is also available on our web site http://www.northyorkcoinclub.ca/auction. reliability is in question. Don’t listen to previous years. This year it will be held on anything my friend tells you because there is Saturday May 11, 2019. Please find Paul Because we have so many lots in the a good chance he’s got it wrong. You have all Petch at the meeting with your completed auction we will hold a short business meeting without any time for show and been warned! Well now its time for some club table application and money and he would be tell. news reports. happy to guarantee you a spot. Most of the The first thing I would like to do is tables are already sold so if you plan on apologize for my attempt at humour above. attending reserve your table now, by paying, I also want to highlight some of the Secondly, I’m apologizing to all who attended before it’s too late. upcoming shows in the area and beyond. the last meeting for not bring the answers to The club’s treasurer is away and enjoying The local coin show schedule is pretty much the club’s initial Game Night. Just like Santa, his retirement, but our temporary treasurer empty with the next big show being the I had a list, and checked it twice, but it didn’t Terry is still reminding everyone that your O.N.A. Convention in Kingston from April occur to me about correcting the quizzes. Oh 2019 dues are payable now. If you do not 12-14. This event is packed with everything well, next time. Maybe the games were a little have a membership card from the club with a numismatist could want from the harder than I thought because most of us did the year 2019 on it then there is a good chance educational seminars to the auction and not score very well. I thank all who that you did not pay your dues. Unless you are bourse and the closing banquet dinner on participated in Game Night and will a life member, the card was issued upon Saturday. If you like that convention and investigate getting some games for next year payment, so if you don’t have your current you’re looking for something a little bigger that may have a bit more Canadian content. membership card, see Terry before the and closer to breathtaking scenery. why not Oh, and the answers! meeting to clear up the payment confusion. consider a trip to Calgary this summer. You are reminded to pay your $10 2019 dues Continued page 3... PAGE 2— MARCH 2019 — NORTH YORK COIN CLUB BULLETIN NEWS OF THE FEBRUARY 2019 MEETING The 652nd meeting of the North York Coin Club was held on Blocks carved from a hardwood Tuesday, February 26, 2019 in the 1st floor Banquet Room at the that would have been used to print Edithvale Community Centre. It was hammered to order at 7:30 p.m. counterfeit Chinese Banknotes c. with our President, Bill O’Brien, in the chair with 29 members and 1850–1880; a very interesting find 5 guests in attendance. indeed. The first order of business was the on-time attendance draw. Bill then introduced Game Member Chris Dunsmuir was not present at the time his name was Night. As a change to our normal drawn to receive the draw prize of $10.00. The draw will increase meeting format Bill compiled a to $15.00 for the March 26, 2019, meeting. series on numismatic oriented Bill opened by mentioning that this was our annual celebratory questions that he took from various Anniversary meeting that also included the induction of our latest Life sources, for those willing to Member, Italo Villella, as LM #34. Italo was asked to come to the participate to try and answer. Since front and receive a certificate of recognition and a club medal this was a new feature it was not engraved with his name. without some opportunities for improvement. Although not Bill then asked the members present if they had noticed any originally designed that way, Bill errors or omissions in the minutes of the January meeting as published asked for everyone to submit their in the February newsletter. With no change being identified, Phillip answers and he would mark them Simms made a motion to accept the minutes, which was seconded The club’s 59th anniversary off-line. The members who by John Bratton. Motion carried. cakes recognized our newest answered the most questions life member The acting Treasurer Terry Maksymjuk was not present to give correctly would win a prize to be the report, Bill indicated provided a short update. determined. Afterwards he mentioned that we were going to try something A short refreshment break was called from 8:10–8:34 p.m. different for this meeting, a Game Night, for which Bill had prepared We resumed the meeting with our regular auction and our a series of questions and a support PowerPoint presentation. Bill also customary lucky draw. Lucky draw numbers were called at various reminded everyone that the March meeting would be Auction Night times while the auction took place. Lucky draw winners for the and that they should submit their consignments to Paul Petch so that evening were—Andrew Silver, David Quinlan (3), Chris Poissant, he could prepare a listing to be sent out in the next bulletin. Terry Maksymjuk, Ross McInnis (2), Italo Villella, Nick Cowan (2), With the business portion of the meeting complete Bill recognized Philip Tran, Henry Nienhuis, and Tony Hine. The club earned $40.00 guests who joined us this evening. Peter M. is familiar to many as through the sale of the draw tickets! Our auction manager, Paul President of the Scarborough Coin Club and a member of the Troyak Johnson, reported that receipts from the auction added $53.70 to the club, which will be holding their annual winter show on Sunday, club coffers. We thank Jared Stapleton, our auctioneer, Andrew March 3. Garth W. is a long time collector of Colonial Tokens. And, Silver and Mark Argentino, who volunteered as runner, and Paul John Z. who counts Carson City silver dollars among his collecting Johnson, our auction manager, for their help. interests, brought along a man’s ring fashioned from a US Morgan There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 9: 20 dollar.