RALEIGH COIN CLUB NNeewwsslleetttteerr Established in 1954 April 2003 In This Issue David Boitnott Wins ANA “Best of Show” Exhibit Award ARTICLES By Dave Provost David Boitnott Wins ANA “Best of Show” Exhibit Award From the moment it was set up, it was clear that David Saint-Gaudens Exhibition at Boitnott’s exhibit “Wanted: A Few Oddball North Carolinians: NC Museum of Art North Carolina Statehood Quarter Errors” was the exhibit to Wright Brothers Seminar beat at this year’s ANA National Money Show in Charlotte. Planned at NC Collection Gallery More than 40 exhibits were dealers who knew of his efforts National Wildlife Refuge mounted at the show, but none to assemble a definitive NC System Centennial Medals could top the tremendous quarter error collection, a display created by RCC member number of his “oddballs” were and Director David Boitnott. either purchased from general- REGULAR FEATURES purpose dealers at coin shows The four-case exhibit show- or won via eBay online auctions. Club Business cased a comprehensive array of possible planchet, die and By winning the Best-of-Show President’s Message striking errors through the use of award at the springtime National North Carolina Statehood Money Show, the exhibit is North Carolina quarters. The exhibit was automatically eligible to compete Numismatic Showcase creative, attractive, interesting for the same prize at the ANA’s for collectors and non-collectors annual convention — the Numismatic News from alike and provided plenty of World’s Fair of Money — without Outside the Triangle detailed information for the having to first win its category. dedicated error collector as well. This year’s convention will be Show Calendar It set a new standard for the held in Baltimore, MD at the end exhibiting of error coins. of July. David has been acquiring In recognition of his efforts, the coins for the exhibit since David received a Saint-Gaudens the release of the NC quarter in $20 gold piece donated by 2000. While many of the coins Richard Nachbar Rare Coins of came directly from specialty Williamsville, New York. Raleigh Coin Club Newsletter April 2003 Club Business Page The Raleigh Coin Club March Meeting Notes Editorial Address: PO Box 354 RCC President Paul Landsberg called the Morrisville, NC 27560 March meeting to order at 7:33pm. Twenty-one [email protected] members and one guest were in attendance. Merl Trimmer was voted in as a new member. Business Address: PO Box 18801 Raleigh, NC 27619 As Kent Woodson was not present, no Treasurer’s Report was given. Club Officers It was noted that Halbert Carmichael’s wife, Anne, had suffered a stroke. She was recuperating and it was hoped she would be back home within a President Paul Landsberg few weeks. James Gahrmann was injured in a Vice President Bob Schreiner ladder mishap that left him with two broken ankles. Secretary David Provost He was reported to be in good spirits, however, and Treasurer Kent Woodson is expected to make a full recovery. Sergeant-at-Arms Thomas Powell Bob Schreiner reported that he had received Directors (Term Expiration) show commitments from 25 dealers (34 tables) for Halbert Carmichael (2003) our June show. He indicated that this level of Dot Hendrick (2004) response is typical when still three to four months David Boitnott (2005) prior to the show. Dave Provost passed out several mock-ups of the postcard mailer to be used to promote the Club Affiliations club’s annual show. It was decided to go with a design featuring the NC Statehood quarter. Bob S. American Numismatic Association volunteered to produce a ½-page flyer about the Member #C-79478 club show with a similar design. Flyers will be made available to club members to use to help Blue Ridge Numismatic Association promote the show at their workplace, local shops, BRNA Member #C-3383 libraries, etc. Eastern States Numismatic Association ESNA Member #0026 (Life) Harry C. raised the question of whether the club North Carolina Numismatic Association would once again create a souvenir card for our NCNA Member #C-14 (Life) annual show. After a brief discussion, it was decided to move forward with the project and Harry was authorized to have the cards produced. Harry will be bring a mock-up of the card to the April Contents Ó Raleigh Coin Club 2003 meeting. The RCC grants permission for the reprinting of any article contained herein (except for those already Gary Werner asked if the club had ever copyrighted by the author) for non-profit educational considered putting flyers or brochures in the purposes provided that the RCC Newsletter and the Raleigh Visitor’s Center. Halbert C. agreed to original author are cited as the source for the check into it and report back at the April meeting. material. See Meeting Notes on Page 3 Page 2 Raleigh Coin Club Newsletter April 2003 President’s Message Greetings and welcome to April! drop into circulation. Well, the ANA Money Show in Charlotte has I hope that everyone took some of the two- wrapped up and I want to thank each and every dollar bills that I brought in last time. For this month, Raleigh Coin Club member who made it over to I picked up some Kennedy Half Dollars from the Charlotte. I honestly think that it would be easier to credit union. Once again, you can pick some up at name the RCC members who did not attend, rather face value to use as change for your daily than to try and name those who did. I should also purchases. point out that RCC members were volunteering in many different roles. Participation from local See you at the meeting! organizations is key for the success of any national show and I can confidently state that the Raleigh Meeting Notes Coin Club stepped up!! Thanks!! Continued from Page 2 From my personal perspective, I had a fantastic Several club members promoted the upcoming time in Charlotte. I actually went to Charlotte by ANA National Money Show in Charlotte. Quite a way of Dallas based on my travel schedule for work few RCC’ers indicated that they planned to attend. but the upside was that I spent the entire three (Secretary’s note: I personally saw a dozen club days at the convention. I have to admit that the tiny members at the show!) slice of Charlotte I saw on the way into and out of the convention center didn't convince me to venture Club activities for National Coin Week (NCW) outside the hall so I spent pretty much 100% of the were discussed next. After discussing past time inside. So what did I do? Bought coins, met a activities, including the “RCC” counterstamped fellow porcelain coin/medal collector, met other Buffalo nickels, it was decided to investigate the ancient coin collectors, chatted with dealers, possibility of creating “sticker” NC quarters. Dave attended an education session or two, browsed the P. agreed to check into computer-generated labels exhibits, volunteered some help and...did I mention that could be applied to NC quarters. Each label I bought some coins? would promote the RCC and direct interested parties to the club web site. If the idea is feasible, Given that the convention is targeted at stickers and quarters will be available for collectors of US material, the number of dealers in distribution at the April meeting. ancient coins was rather limited. However, the convention hall was extremely spacious and I never Setting up a booth at the Fairgrounds flea found collectors stacked three deep in front of the market was also discussed. As too few club tables. This allowed me to spend a great deal of members expressed an interest in staffing the time chatting with some dealers I would normally booth, the idea was tabled until some future date. never have that chance with. One dealer in particular waved me over and whispered quite The evening’s program was given by Dave P. It conspiratorially, "Take a look in these two trays, was entitled “Collecting North Carolina History.” here is $250,000 worth of coins." Hey!! That was The talk was an abbreviated version of the program the best offer I had all day! (grin) he was to give at the ANA show in Charlotte later in the month. The fast-paced slide show presented a On more club related matters, I want to remind variety of commemorative medals and tokens that everyone that National Coin Week is April 20-26, celebrate NC history. 2003. I believe we agreed to distribute "sticker quarters" to the public. We can haggle over the The meeting concluded with a settling of Bid details of exactly if and what we want to offer as Board sales and the monthly raffle and door prizes. prizes for the first ‘n’ people that return them. I will be bringing along the stickers and we can work as James Hearn volunteered to bring the a team to sticker them up and prepare them for a refreshments to the April meeting. Page 3 Raleigh Coin Club Newsletter April 2003 Agustus Saint-Gaudens Exhibit at the NC Museum of Art The North Carolina Museum of Art is currently notably Robert Louis Stevenson. And the hosting an exhibition of the works of one of the exhibition also features Saint-Gaudens’ decorative most famous designers of US coins — Augustus objects, jewelry and coins, such as the famed Saint-Gaudens. The exhibition, running through Twenty-Dollar Gold Piece (“Double Eagle”) May 11, offers a broad survey of Saint-Gaudens’ commissioned by President Theodore Roosevelt. sculptural commissions, both public and private, as well as some of his smaller works such as the $10.00 and $20.00 gold coins of 1907-1933.