Meeting 7:30pm, Wednesday, November, 6
Talk and trading 7:00-7:30pm
VFW, 1601 Weld Road, Elgin, IL
815-786-6779
Give your spouse a break and bring your children to the club.
White Elephant Sale.
| ECC Meeting 537 - October 2, 2002 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opened: | 7:33 | Closed: | 9:16 | |
| Members: | 18 | YNs: | 1 | |
| Guests: | 1 | |||
| Beginning balance: | $707.87 | Income: | $281.00 | |
| Expenses: | $456.81 | Current balance: | $534.00 | |
President Mike Metras called the meeting to order at 7:33.
Don Dool gave an extremely interesting talk on copper coins of the 16th century. And the coins he brought and showed us, were coins we probably would never have been able to see this close up anywhere else.
None due to this month's presentation.
As printed in September's newsletter and accepted.
As printed in September's newsletter and accepted.
Raffle tickets still available for sale. Email addresses have been obtained and will be distributed to the members. It was suggested that those who have internet access, obtain each month's newsletter from our site. It was also suggested that the raffle tickets for our annual show be distributed to our member's to sell at the June meeting. A special thanks to Marty for donating a new raffle ticket bucket.
We are looking for nominations for Treasurer and Vice President for the next two years. Volunteer and become an active member of the club. We need a volunteer to be interviewed on WRMN radio station about coins, our club and our annual show.
We had our customary raffle and membership drawings. The winners were:
The meeting closed around 9:05 P.M.
Submitted by Frank Schlapinski, Secretary.
Mike, Don, Jim, Doug and I, got together at Don's Wednesday night at 7pm October 16th. Among other things we discussed the following.
We decided on monthly raffle and member prizes. Mike brought in the wooden nickels to be given out at the show.
We discussed handing out one dollar trade dollars to the first 200 people who come to the show. The dollars will be redeemed from the dealers accepting them for cash. This will hopefully give the people an incentive to purchase coins from the dealers.
Submitted by Frank Schlapinski, Secretary.
Jim D. brought a copy of the 1964 Peace Dollar.
Mike M. brought in
[As your web master and president, I have taken liberties and added the following to the Newsletter. The following text is included on the back of the flier we are handing out at the show. -Mike Metras]
This year the first 200 visitors will each receive a note good for $1 in trade at participating dealers at the show. You can use your note when you are buying something from a dealer or you can save the note with your collection as a souvenir of this 40th annual show. We hope you do the latter.
The note is good for trade with participating dealers and has no value other than its value during this 40th annual show. Dealers, you can redeem any notes you accept at the club table before the end of the show at 3:00 pm on October 27, 2002. The club will not honor or redeem notes not redeemed by that time.
The notes are numbered consecutively. To add variety, the numbers' colors change every 25 numbers. The colors used starting with 1 are blue, purple, red, orange, brown, blue green, green, and yellow.
The Elgin Coin Club is also issuing a wooden nickel to commemorate and honor this 40th annual coin show. If you did not get one as you entered, they are available at the table at the entrance.
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