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| Volume 53 No. 12 | December 2007 |
If you have not yet paid your 2008 Chicago Coin Club membership dues, please do so now: $20 for each individual member, $30 for an individual member with a spouse who is an associate member, or $10 for a junior member. Send a check to the club’s post office box:
| CHICAGO COIN CLUB P.O. Box 2301 CHICAGO, IL 60690 |
The 1067th meeting of the Chicago Coin Club was called to order November 14, 2007 at 7 PM by President Robert Feiler with 13 members and 1 guest, Richard Lipman, present. The meeting was held at the Chicago Bar Association, 321 S. Plymouth Court, 3rd Floor, Downtown Chicago.
The membership stood for 1 minute of silence in memory of long-time member Marty Vink and past-member Arlie Slabaugh.
The October Minutes as printed in the Chatter were approved. In the absence of the Treasurer, the Secretary read the Treasurer’s report showing October income of $370.00, expenses $212.27 and total assets of $11,684.43. The report was approved as read.
Jeff Rosinia called the evening’s auction which was called the Chester Poderksi Memorial Auction.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:20 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
Carl F. Wolf, Secretary
| Amos Advantage | Chicago Coin Company |
| Numismatic News | Harlan J. Berk, Ltd. |
These are the realized prices for the lots listed in the November Chatter; an additional lot was consigned just before the auction.
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| Date: | December 12, 2007 |
| Time: | 6PM to 7PM Cocktails and Hors d’oeuvres
7PM to 9 PM+ Dinner and Meeting |
| Location: | Marcello’s Restaurant, 645 West North Avenue, Chicago, IL 312-654-2560. Ample free parking is available in their parking lot. If public transportation is taken, it’s just east of the North Avenue subway stop on the CTA Red Line. |
| Menu: |
The evening’s hors d’oeuvres include teryaki chicken skewers w/Thai peanut sauce and spinach-mushroom pastry puffs. Dinner includes salad, homemade Italian bread, insalata Roma w/Italian dressing. Entrees include teryaki chicken, cheese tortellini w/marinara sauce, double-baked potato and grilled vegetables. Assorted gourmet brownies make up dessert. The cost is $25.00 per person and reservations are required. Make your check payable to Chicago Coin Club, P.O. Box 2301, Chicago, IL 60690. If time is short, e-mail your reservation to carlwolfco@msn.com, or call 773-878-8979 during workdays and make arrangements to pay at the door. If you’re delayed by traffic or weather, call the secretary’s cell phone 773-771-1311. A self serve table with soda and with White Zinfindel wine will be in the room. A sign will be posted with costs. A wide selection of other drinks can be purchased at Marcello’s main bar down the hall. A special thanks goes out to the following members who made donations to make the banquet more enjoyable. Kevin & Sharon Blocker — room deposit and dinner for the speakers. William Burd and Mark Wieclaw — hor d’oeuvres. |
| Program: | Leonard Augsberger and Joel Orosz on Images of the First Mint: The Numismatic Legacy of Frank H. Stewart
In 1792, the newly formed American government commissioned its first building — the United States Mint on Seventh Street in Philadelphia. Over one hundred years later, Philadelphian Frank H. Stewart purchased the now worn out property, attempted to preserve it as a historical site, and in the end bowed to the interests of commerce and razed the building in order to erect a functional factory for his rapidly expanding electrical business. But Stewart was not a mercenary businessman hell bent on destroying history in order to progress the future. In the wake of the first mint excavation Stewart left behind a thoughtful trail of images and artifacts, which until now have never been thoroughly investigated. In this presentation we revisit the iconography and relics that Stewart not only preserved but promoted with much vigor, greatly desiring that the history of the first mint be shared with future generations, reflecting the vision of the Founding Fathers in creating this, the first building of the United States. |
| Agenda: | Award Presentations |
| December | 12 | CCC Meeting - Annual Banquet - Featured Speakers - Leonard Augsberger and Joel Orosz on Images of the First Mint: The Numismatic Legacy of Frank H. Stewart |
| January | 9 | CCC Meeting - Featured Speaker - to be announced |
| February | 13 | CCC Meeting - Featured Speaker - to be announced |
| January | 2 | Al Sawyer | 1999 |
| January | 12 | Elliot Kreiter | 2004 |
| January | 16 | Michael Metras | |
| January | 26 | Jennie Sochon | 1982 |
All correspondence pertaining to Club matters
should be addressed to the Secretary and mailed to:
CHICAGO COIN CLUB
P.O. Box 2301
CHICAGO, IL 60690
http://www.ChicagoCoinClub.org/
| Robert Feiler | - President |
| Jeff Rosinia | - First Vice President |
| Lyle Daly | - Second Vice President |
| William Burd | - Archivist |
| Directors: | Eugene Freeman
Elliot Krieter Carl Wolf Mark Wieclaw |
| Other positions held are: | |
| Carl Wolf | - Secretary |
| Steve Zitowsky | - Treasurer |
| Paul Hybert | - Chatter Editor |
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