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The Chicago Coin Club is a group of collectors interested in all aspects of numismatics. With two exceptions, we meet monthly in downtown Chicago on the second Wednesday of every month at 7:00 pm. You are always welcome to join us and learn with us.
Choose any of the following to learn more about us. Or just scroll through and read it all.
The objective of the club is to pursue numismatic knowledge through the study and research of coins, currency, medals, tokens, and other related items and the sharing of this information through monthly meetings, dialogue, and the publication of literature.
The Chicago Coin Club was founded in 1919 and has continued uninterrupted for over 85 years.
The Chicago Coin Club does not buy, sell, or offer opinions as to the price or grade of a coin. The Club's operating revenues come from annual dues paid by members, bequests, contributions, and gifts. All expenditures are for operating expenses or for the advancement of numismatics.
Any person interested in numismatics is eligible for membership.
| Carl F. Wolf | carlwolfco@msn.com |
We meet monthly in downtown Chicago on the second Wednesday of every month at 7:00 pm.
Except for the December banquet, our current downtown meeting space is at the Chicago Bar Association, 321 S. Plymouth Court, 3rd floor meeting room. Plymouth Court is located between State and Dearborn Streets; Plymouth is a short street, going south from Jackson. Please remember the security measures at our meeting building: everyone must show their photo-ID and register at the guard’s desk.
In addition to our monthly meetings downtown, we also meet at some local shows. In February or March we meet at 1 pm on a Saturday at the Chicago Paper Money Exhibition (CPMX). In March or April we meet at 1 pm on a Saturday at the Chicago International Coin Fair (CICF). And in June or July, we meet on a Saturday at the MidAmerica Expo. The photo-ID and pre-registration security measures are not needed for attending our meetings at CPMX, CICF, and MidAmerica.
July 9, 2008 - CCC Meeting - Featured Speaker:
Robert J. Leuver on
U.S. Government’s Tryst with a Plastic Substrate for Currency
A former director of the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP)
will take us behind the scenes and discuss the BEP’s flirtation
with a plastic substrate for U.S. currency, in place of Crane rag paper, 1978-1981.
Consideration of two forays into plastic was realistic and serious.
It will be interesting to speculate if the BEP can resume such tests
after Rep. Silvio Conte’s (R-CT) “legislation” that the substrate
for U.S. currency be produced by a U.S. manufacturer.
At the end of our regular July meeting we will recess and reconvene at our MidAmerica Coin Expo meeting.
July 12, 2008 - CCC Meeting - 1PM at the MidAmerica Coin Expo,
Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center, 1551 Thoreau Drive, Schaumburg, IL 60173.
(That is on the east side of Roselle Road, just north of I-90; no interchange there, so check a map.)
Show parking is free.
No admission charge for our meeting,
which will be in the Utopia D room on the second floor of the convention center.
Featured Speaker:
Ron Sirna on
Indian & Flying Eagle Pattern Cents
James Longacre designed the Flying Eagle cent as a pattern coin in 1856
and the next year the U.S. Mint put it into circulation.
Officials soon discovered the eagle’s head and tail relief would not strike up fully
because they were directly opposite the wreath on the reverse.
This set off a five year transitional period at the U.S. Mint
where they experimented with different designs and metals.
Sirna will show examples of the many pattern coins and tell the story
of how the bronze Indian Head cent evolved from the copper-nickel Flying Eagle cent.
Attend this program and understand how the 12-piece set (11 patterns and one regular issue)
became so popular with collectors that the Mint reissued the patterns at various times,
resulting in even more varieties.
Sirna is also the Legal Counsel for the American Numismatic Association
and will discuss some of the legal apects so prominent in the news for the last year.
Our monthly newsletter is called the Chatter and is mailed to all members at the beginning of each month. Here is the current issue.
With the club's 1000th Meeting concluded, we have nothing else to announce just yet, but some ideas are being discussed. What is your idea?
A one-day ANS/CCC Symposium was held on March 27, 1996. The program consisted of ten original papers by outstanding numismatic scholars from the Midwest and the curatorial staff of the American Numismatic Society. A 7 PM dinner was separate from the symposium. All events took place at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, 301 E. North Water St., Chicago, on March 27, 1996. This was the headquarters hotel for the Chicago International Coin Fair, held from March 29-31, 1996.
The club hosted the annual summer convention of the American Numismatic Association at the Rosemont Convention Center on August 11-15, 1999. It will be awhile before they return here, so check their schedule of future conventions, to see if they will be close to you.
The one-thousandth meeting of the Chicago Coin Club was honored with a banquet dinner meeting in April, 2002, held on Saturday night during CICF, at the show's hotel (a new location for 2002). Mark Wieclaw chaired the planning committee.
One of the items honoring the 800th meeting of the Chicago Coin Club, on September 14, 1985, is the book Perspectives in Numismatics. Its 19 manuscripts cover many aspects of numismatics: Sear on Roman Coinage, Lhotka on Medieval European Coinage, Newman on Maryland's Dollar Denominated Paper Money, van Beek on Jetons, and Pearlman on the Hobby are only some. So far, the text from 18 of the manuscripts are avaible online. The illustrations will be brought up from the original artwork where possible, so the illustrations will take some time.
For the past several years, the club has prepared a handout for all attendees at the meeting held in conjunction with the CICF Chicago International Coin Fair, under the general heading of Odd and Curious Money. The club started a similar handout for the meeting in conjunction with the Chicago Paper Money Exhibition, with each handout looking at an obsolete bank from the Chicago area. Although the handout is free to each attendee, extras are available for sale.
The club is pleased to host an online numismatic library containing works in HTML to make viewing more flexible and searching possible. Please send comments, questions, and requests to us and include library as part of the subject line.
Some medals and handouts are still available. See the order form for pricing and availability.
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To become a member of the Chicago Coin Club you must attend a meeting and fill out and submit an application along with a membership fee of $20 ($10 for Junior membership).
A 1st reading of your application will be held at this meeting for membership approval.
A 2nd reading will be held at the next monthly meeting, following publication of your name in the club newsletter. Upon membership approval, applicant will become a member. Applicant not required to be present at 2nd reading.
Comments and questions are always welcome. These Chicago Coin Club pages are created and maintained by Paul Hybert, with design advice from Mike Metras.