March 2015 newsletter

Post date: Mar 08, 2015 2:27:4 PM

One Page News

Monthly Newsletter of the Greater Orange County Coin Club

Largest and Best Coin Club in Orange County

Member ANA, CSNA and NASC

President Jeff Stahl Vice President Mike Ontko

Treasurer Dan Jimerson Secretary Bill Pfeifer

Auctioneer Mark Baskin

Meeting Location: Costa Mesa Community Center (Costa Mesa Room)

1845 Park Ave.(south of 19th and west of Harbor) Costa Mesa

Meetings: Second Tuesday of Every Month @ 7:00 PM

Next Meeting: March 10, 2015@ 7:00 PM

approximately 30 paid up members, including family.

Refreshments: Gordon Hjelmstrom

Speaker: Jeff Stahl “ Types of Period I California Fractional Gold Coins”

Minutes of February 2015 Meeting

Guests: none

Membership: Membership fees for 2015 are now due. So far, we have

Announcements: CSNA 47th Annual Southern California Educational

Symposium, April 11 @ the Long Beach Airport Holiday Inn. See

discussion below for speakers.

Educational Symposium are Sean Moffatt talking on “The Minting Processthe

Good days and the Bad Days”, John Duff, “Paronormal Paper Money

and Coins”, Mark Baskin , “Antique Counterfeit Detecting Scales and

Devices” and Charmy Harker “Penny Potpourri- A Collection of Penny

Creations”. Flyers will be passed out at our meeting .

Our existing meeting room will be available to us through October

Old and New Business: The CSNA speakers for the 47th Annual

2015 since the Cityʼs planned remodeling has been delayed.

Our club had a successful banquet on Jan. 25 with 18 members and guests

attending. Good food and games were enjoyed by all. Mike took several

pictures which are available on our website.

club with their regular donations.

Donations: Thanks to the many members who continue to support our

Meeting Program: David Schwager "EBay for the Coin Collector". This

discussion presened a balanced view of how collectors use this important part

of the numismatic market. Collectors buy limited material with care and, if they

are willing to put in the work, have used EBay to sell their excess items. The talk

was well received, especially by many collectore who needed to know one of

the many options to intelligently sell their excess coins.

a listing of all upcoming Southern California coin shows:

Prizes: I was told that Judy Lucas won the 1/10th oz. Gold coin.

Future Coin Shows See above announcements and our club website for

<www.occoinclub.com> .

Respectfully submitted,

Bill Pfeifer, secretary