September 2016 Meeting Announcement

Post date: Sep 10, 2016 11:28:20 PM

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Monthly Newsletter of the Greater Orange County Coin Club

Largest and Best Coin Club in Orange County

Member ANA, CSNA and NASC

President Glen Franks Vice President Mike Ontko

Treasurer Chris Caldwell 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: September 13 , 2016@ 7:00 PM

Speaker: Mike Ontko “Silver Dimes of Europe”

Refreshments: Albertus Hoogeveen and Bill Pfeifer

Minutes of August 9, 2016 Meeting

Guests: Tom Grinnell (OC Rare Coin & Bullion) and Ken Arnold, a long

time member now living out of town.

New Members: Dennis Rocklein

Membership: We now have 77 paid memberships 2016.

Announcements: Our November meeting will be Nov 1; mark your

calendars ! There will not be a North County show in September, shows

resume in October. Notices of the Long Beach Coin and Expo(Sept 8-10)

were sent out in early September ; free admission vouchers were also

provided to several of our members. I expect to be able to provide these

free vouchers for all future Long Beach shows. This is based on

discussions I had with representative of the Long Beach show when I was

at the recent ANA Worlds Fair of money.

Old and New Business: Several weeks and many phone calls later, we

are in the final stages of negotiation for a new meeting room for 2017. You

will recall that the city notified us that our existing room would no longer be

available to our club in 2017. The Costa Mesa Community Center facility

officially closes Dec 21, 2016 for extensive remodeling . Our new meeting

room will be in Orange Coast Universalist church located at 2845 Mesa

Verde Drive East, in Costa Mesa. (Corner of Adams and Mesa Verde Drive

East, behind Torelli Realty and across from Piecemakers. )

Our first meeting in the new facility will be on WEDNESDAY January 11,

2017. More information on this new meeting location will be provided in

future newsletters. The room will be accessible at 6:30PM for early set-up.

Thanks to all of our members, officers and members of our board of

directors who provided suggestions for sorting out this complex task of

finding a suitable room site for our club. The timely responsiveness of our

officers and board members ,who provided me encouragement to “carry

on” when I became frustrated and tired, was really appreciated! Special

thanks to Mark Baskin for his timely help and to Ken Arnold for supplying

his personal contacts at the Orange Coast Universalist church where we

successfully found an acceptable room for our club meetings.

Donations: Thanks to those who continue to support our club with

their regular donations; the support is greatly appreciated. Please

make a special effort to shop at OC RARE COIN and BULLION(Harbor

and 19th ,Costa Mesa) This local coin shop has been extremely

generous to our club ,giving us many valuable coins to support our

club auctions. The latest gift was a 2 1/2 peso gold coin, personally

delivered to our club by Tom Grinnell; previously they provided silver

eagles, silver dollars, etc. Show them your appreciation by shopping

at their facility at 1927 Harbor Blvd ,Unit B, in Costa Mesa.

Education Program: Jerry Kleeb presented a very interesting talk on

Hungarian Inflation Notes that provided a history lesson for the severity of

inflation in the Hungarian republic at the end of WWII . In 1945 and 1946,

the Hungarian pengo experienced the greatest hyperinflation even seen,

leaving behind a wide variety of numismatic artifacts. As usual, the talk

was very detailed showing the complexity of government mismanagement

of the economy along with ravaging of the Hungarian economy by

occupying foreign states of World War II. It is a sad story of the spoils of

war by invading armed forces during/after the war. Nice job Jerry!

Prizes: No gold drawing as held and I missed the winner of the 2 1/2 gold

peso drawing. Will the winner please let me know so I can provide the

information in our official club minutes.

Future Coin Shows: For a full listing of all Southern California coin shows,

go to our website: <www.occoinclub.com> .

Respectfully submitted,

Bill Pfeifer, Secretary , Greater Orange County Coin Club