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News N.O.W. Vol. 39 No. 4 Winter 2001 Let There Be Peace on Earth,,, Numismatists of Wisconsin is incorporated in the state of Wisconsin as a non-stock, non-profit tax exempt corporation. Your contributions are tax deductible The objective of Numismatists of Wisconsin is to encourage and promote interest in numismatics, to cultivate friendly relations between Wisconsin coin collectors and Wisconsin coin clubs, and to encourage and assist new numismatic hobbyists. All resources of the organization shall be used to further these objectives. Dues are $5 per NOW year and entitles participants to News, this quarterly publication. Among the services offered are coin authentication, a Speaker’s Bureau, show calendar coordination and guidelines to assist coin clubs hosting the NOW annual convention. Winter 2001 Secretary’s Musings 2 Coin Club News 9 ANA Update 10 What’s New? 11-13 BookNook 14-15 Advertisers 5,15,30 Application/Advertising 2 7 Coin Club Meetings 31 NOW Officers & Contacts 32 Show Calendar 33-34 Winter Tidbits Introducing NOW Nominees 3-4,6 Memoriam Dan Scheid 6 In - NOW Returns to lola in 2002 6 We Saw You at the NOW Show in Wausau 7-8 What is the Fate of the Penny? 2 4 Coin Club/Coin Show Information Forms 28-29 Articles 16-17 People Helping People (Phyllis Calkins) The Man and the Medal (Gene Johnson) 18 Remembering the CCC (Gene Johnson) 19-21 Buffalo Dollars (Bill Brandimore) 22 23-24 Animal Crackers in Your Stocking (Phyllis Calkins) Medals are Prized by Collectors (Bill Brandimore) 2 5 Hidden Treasure (Tom Casper) 2 6 Deadline News for the next issue should be sent to the Editor bv Februarv 1st 1 before February 1st. Please do not include Secretary’s with your dues since the ballots will not be it Musings counted until later next year. (Every year someone’s renewal gets “delayed” and they miss an issue of the News. by Ron Calkins ) NOW Show Update Dues are Due -- Dues notices are included NOW with this issue. Because of bulk mailing you missed the show If regulations, everyone receives a notice, so hosted by the Wisconsin check your label and you need to renew if Valley Coin Club in your dues, please send $5 to ensure September, you missed a receiving the next issue. good one. Early birds gathered in the hospitality Membership Cards - please keep in mind room on Saturday evening that we don’t automatically send members and journeyed to the 2510 Club for our new cards each year, so if you need a new mystery dinner and lots of numismatic chit- one, let me know. chat. After dinner, club member, George — Congratulations Usually the winners Alafouzos presented a limited-edition of the writers awards are announced at the ceramic medal he prepared as a memento for NOW annual show, however, we were a tad everyone attending the dinner. late in finding out who should be Sunday morning, before entering the show, congratulated for writing the best articles NOW many took in the breakfast buffet. The published in last year. Winners are: show opened at 9:00, with a nice crowd 1st place - $100 to Tom Casper for his holding steady throughout most of the day. Cracker Jack story (donated by the South NOW The Board met in the hospitality room Shore Coin Club). at 11:00 and conducted the necessary NOW 2nd place - $50 to Leon Saryan for his business at hand. At 1:00 p.m. article on Nutmeg Wars (donated by the members attended a very brief General Oshkosh Numismatic Research Society). Membership Meeting, which was also held in the hospitality room. 3rd place - $25 to Gene Johnson for his NOW Cherry Harvest story (donated by the On behalf of the Board, thanks to the Milwaukee Numismatic Society). Wisconsin Valley Coin Club members for hosting this year’s show, to Thad Steeter Coin Club/Show Information for taking on the responsibility of show Forms are included in this issue. Please be chairman and to Krause Publications for sure that your club sends this information to generously sponsoring the hospitality room. us. - Election of Officers Several qualified candidates accepted nomination for Board of Governors. Please read their biographies and vote. Your ballot should be sent in 2 Fred Borgmann (lola) Fred started collecting coins at the age of 7 and since then has expanded into medals and decorations, badges, currency and photo postcards. He started his professional numismatic career with Jess Peters, Inc. in 1974 and joined Krause Publications and Introducing World Coin News in 1976. Fred feels that NOW N.O.W, Nominees should do all we can to help local clubs and to become “the club” for those NOW collectors who do not have a local club to Five members were nominated and NOW accepted to serve for 3 years on the Board join. Fred is currently serving on the Board of Governors. of Governors. Biographies are listed alphabetically, highlighting each candidate’s Lee Hartz (Brown Deer) numismatic interests and associations. Only A collector since 1954, Lee specializes in one nomination was received for President German states coins, hammered English coins and one for Vice President. and financial paper (including banknotes) of Dubuque, Iowa. Board of Governors Memberships: MNS, SSCC, CSNS, ANA, Jerry Binsfeld (Pleasant Prairie) Society of Paper Money Collectors, Jerry has been active in the coin collecting American Society of Check Collectors, hobby for many years. He served as British Numismatic Society. president, secretary and bourse chairman for the Kenosha Coin Club. He served as Since moving to Milwaukee in 1968, he has president, is currently on the board for the helped at most Milwaukee shows and has Racine Numismatic Society and bourse held various offices in the Milwaukee chairman since 1986. A 1995 founder, Numismatic Society and South Shore Coin editor/publisher of the Associated Collectors Clubs. Lee served as finance chairman of the CSNS of Encased quarterly newsletter. 1995 convention, exhibit chairman of the 1977 CSNS convention, co-exhibit Memberships; ANA life member, NOW, chairman of the 1986 ANA convention and International Banknote Society, Civil War helped organize several Boy Scout Clinics. Token Society, International Assoc, of Silver For the past 5 years, Lee has exhibited and Art Collectors. judged, and is an occasional speaker at local NOW During the 1980s Jerry served as club meetings. Lee has written articles for Governor and was chairman of the NOW NOW News and is presently serving as Past shows held in Racine and Kenosha. In 2001, President of NOW. he retired after 35 years in education and is Jim Jach (Milwaukee) a part-time dealer and cataloger of Jim is a Life member of NOW and currently Wisconsin Encased Coins. NOW serves on the Board of Governors. He 3 is also a life member of ANA, CSNS, SPMC, Territorial Obsolete notes, UP Michigan MSNS, SSCC and MNS. Nationals and other US currency. Jim is a collector, exhibitor and certified Bill and his wife, Pat, just celebrated their ANA judge. He was the recipient of the 39th anniversary. They have 4 children and Numismatic Ambassador Award in 1998, 8 grandchildren, all living in the Detroit ANA Presidential Award in 1999 and the area. They visit on Thanksgiving and take in CSNS Medal of Merit in 2000. He served as the big Michigan state coin show. They also Vice-President and Treasurer of SSCC and enjoy frequent visits with their kids at the was exhibit chairman for MNS and is family cabin in northern Michigan. currently exhibit chairman for SSCC. He is NOW He enjoys attending shows, the big co-editor of The Cent/ne/ for the last 12 paper money show in Memphis and the years and received 6 first place outstanding Central States shows. He is on the Board for regional publication awards from the Central States, edits the “Rag Picker” the American Numismatic Association. magazine for the Paper Money Collectors of Mike Tramte (Green Bay) Michigan and writes a monthly numismatic Mike’s interest in coin collecting began in column for the Wausau Daily Herald and has NOW 1954, collecting large cents, tokens, had articles published in News. Bill medals, National banknotes and Civil War will do his best to promote numismatics in Store Cards of Wisconsin. In 1967 Mike general and Wisconsin numismatics in NOW became member #717 and has continued particular. to be active, holding offices of President, Vice President Vice-President, Secretary/Treasurer and is currently on our Board of Governors. Thad Streeter (Schofield) NOW Thad has been a member of for 26 President years. He began collecting coins at the age Brandimore (Wausau) of 7 and collects hard times, love and civil Bill war tokens. In 1969 he joined the Wisconsin Bill retired from the Detroit Police Valley Coin Club as a junior member. He has Department in 1988 after 25 years of since served that club in the capacity of service to take the job as Chief of Police in President, Vice President and Secretary and Wausau... where he continues to serve. is currently serving as President and Bill started collecting coins on his paper nominated to that post again for 2002. route in the early 50’s and began collecting NOW In 1976 he received the Young paper money in the mid 80’s when coins became too expensive. Now he’s doing more Numismatist Scholarship Award to attend the ANA summer seminar in Colorado Springs. with coins again as paper has gotten really expensive. He collects U.S. Type, Buffalo Thad actively promotes numismatics in the central Wisconsin area and has been nickels. Mercury dimes. Walking halves., the interviewed many time by local TV stations classic coins of the early 20th century, so to and newspapers. speak, as well as U.S. Fractional, Wisconsin Thad has been General Chairman/Bourse 4 Looking To Buy Or Sell? Krause Publications Delivers! • 250,000 Worldwide Readers $66,000 Average HHI • $42,000 Average • Collection Market Value For more than 45 years Krause Publications has delivered a huge marketplace—and results—to mailboxes around the world. Numismatic News • Weekly • 1 year $32.00 World Coin News * Monthly • 1 year $25.98 Coin Prices • Bimonthly • 1 year $18.98 Coins Magazine • Monthly • 1 year $25.98 Bank Note Reporter • Monthly • 1 year $32.00 5 Chairman for the Wisconsin Valley Coin Club’s annual shows since the early 1980s NOW and it’s not unusual for him to roll out a show as he did in 1996 and most recently in September of 2001. Thad is currently serving on the Board of NOW Governors of and lives in Schofield with his wife, Barbara and their two children. Numismatists of Wisconsin NOW News Receives ANA Award Returns to lola in 2002 During the show in Wausau, Governor Cliff Mishler, Next year’s NOW 42nd presented NOW Editors with an ANA Certificate anniversary convention will for 3rd place among state and regional return to lola, where the publications. organization was founded and where we observed our Dan Scheid 40th anniversary in 2000. November 19th, #1624 Dan Scheid, age 78, The 2002 event will again died peacefully at his be hosted by Krause InjMemoriam home Madison. in Publications in conjunction i After serving in the with the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Army in World War II, he returned to the founding of Krause Publications. UW, got his BS & MS degrees, then taught in various schools, eventually becoming Dean of Dates are May 17-18, 2002, so put this on Agriculture-Agribusiness at MATC until he your calendars now. retired in 1986. The event will be held in the Activity Center On April 31, 1989 he joined NOW #1624) Building of the lola Old Car Show and a series and was very active, serving as a Governor' of educational programs will be scheduled for from 1991-1993. He also held memberships Saturday. in the Madison Coin Club, ANA, Dedicated Wood Money Collectors, and Elongated Watch for more detailed information in the NOW Collectors. spring issue of News. Dealers may contact Clifford Mishler, Krause Dan authored 3 books and wrote numerous Publications, 700 E. State Street, lola, Wl numismatic articles. He designed and 54945 for bourse information. produced wooden nickels for NOW, numerous coin clubs and other organizations. In 1990 he had over 3000 such nickels in his collection. Dan will be missed by many. 6 We Saw You at the NOW Show in Wausau President Brandimore NOW Board members taking care of the business at hand. Irene Johnson and Chet Krause take a break in the Hospitality Room. The Saturday evening Mystery Dinner at the 2510 Club was enioyed by everyone. Governor Fred Borgmann and wife Kathy 7 Collectors stopped by NOW the table to join or receive information about Numismatists of Wisconsin. Token collector, Gene Johnson, circulated Tom Casper, recent recipient of the ANA among all the dealers, looking for Wisconsin Ambassador’s Award, was also busy tokens. looking for tokens. Many enjoyed a break and refreshments in the Hospitality Room. 8 Wisconsin Valley Coin Club held its Milwaukee annual banquet on November 12th at the Numismatic State Stop restaurant in Mosinee. The club- subsidized event drew only 17 members and Society guests (the smallest attendance of record). Cliff Mishler, The highlight of the evening was the retired Krause presentation of an Honorary Life Publications Membership to Ronald “Swede” Swenson, President, was long-time worker, activist and patron of the special guest at the Milwaukee Numismatic coin club. Presenting the award, club Society’s annual banquet hosted at the President, Thad Streeter, noted Swede’s Bavarian Wurst Haus on October 6th in youth involvement, club leadership and Milwaukee. dedication to the educational aspects of our As guest speaker, Cliff’s remarks reflected collector hobby. Ron became the 5th on 50 years of change with topics ranging Honorary Life Member of the club (Chet from what collectors of that era Krause being the first to be so honored). encountered in circulation, to what clubs President Streeter also presented Ron with might consider doing today to foster the a boxed 1986 Statue of Liberty half dollar, hobby’s future. noting that “Swede” so very much Another task which Cliff enjoyed doing was represented the symbolism of this American presenting a Numismatic Ambassador Award icon in these troubled times. Tom Tom NOW to Casper. is presently a The banquet food (so wonderful last year) Board member and has been a stalwart left much to be desired this year. member of the MNS for many years, Numismatic prizes were distributed to all shouldering a variety of tasks and offices. attending. A retired Milwaukee Police Department Fishbowl Wooden Nickel Coin Club detective, he has participated in many Milwaukee shows, serving in the role of On October 18th, members held their last meeting of this year. Newly-elected chief of security. officers for 2002-2005 are: Madison Coin Club President John Bivar A successful coin show was held at the V.President Ken Beecroft Sheraton Hotel on November 4th. The Secretary Glenna Hauger weather was great and the crowd steady. Treasurer Gary Schauls Members are already developing a special wooden nickel for their show next April. Club members are looking Club meetings now begin at 7:00 p.m. forward to their annual (rather than 7:30) in the Zimbrick Buick coin show, which is Community Meeting Room. In December scheduled for August 3, (weather permitting) members will hold 2002 at the Siren their annual Christmas dinner get-together. Community Center. 9