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A.N.A. C-131170 - I.S.N.A. LM 243 - C.S.N.S. L-600

Established 1939 and celebrating over 80 years of service
to the coin collector.

The next meeting will be Apr il 17th, 2023
Monthly meetings of the Indianapolis Coin Club are held the third Monday of each month at
the Northside Events and Social Club 2100 E. 71st Street in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The Meetings consist of a business session, educational program, an intermission, and anumismatic auction.
Doors open at 6:00 pm, meeting will begin at 7:00 pm.
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As hopefully all of our members know, the ICC has a library that is free to use for it's members. The
current list of library books is available on the ICC website. Jim Sukup usually brings a few books
each month but we want to make sure that everyone is aware of the books that are available.
Email Jim prior to the meeting and he will bring your selection if it is available.

jsukup@rpiratings.com

Th is M on t h s Edu cat ion al Pr ogr am Will Be:
April 17th, 2023
Meeting start time: 7:00 PM

Episcopal War Ser vice Cr osses:
A M ar k of Iden t it y

by Lou ise Bolin g

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A Few Words From Your Pr esident
by Sharon Bower
Hope everyone is enjoying this nice weather. It is that time of year for ANA National Coin Week.
From the ANA:
"Our Money, Our Heritage, Our America" Theme for 2023 National Coin Week
Designs on U.S. coins and paper money commemorate notable people, events, accomplishments,and shared principles. "Our Money, Our Heritage, Our America" is the theme for 2023 National CoinWeek, April 16-22. The 100th annual event will focus on how our money tells the story of ourcountry and helps form our national identity.
Activities and resources scheduled for National Coin Week include:
A promotional kit for clubs with educational materials, buttons, bookmarks and more. Click here to
request your kit!
An interactive social media challenge for the chance a win fantastic collectibles. Learn more.
Online resources and lesson plans for ANA clubs and members to promote National Coin Week intheir communities.
The annual ANA club trivia challenge for a variety of prizes.
Daily online trivia with a chance to win 2023 proof sets.
An activity for Young Numismatists. Take the challenge!
ANA eLearning Academy presentations throughout the week. Register now!
$10 off ANA Membership promotion. Learn more!
An open house at the Edward C. Rochette Money Museum on April 22, featuring 2023 National Coin
Week medalettes produced at the museum's Mini Mint.
Please keep this in mind each month: Regardless of who is giving the monthly program and/or the
topic, we owe it to that person and the membership to remain quiet and pay attention during the
program. It?s important that we respect the knowledge that is being shared with us as well as thetime and effort the speaker is donating to our club.
During the auction there has been an increase with side bar discussions. This is disrespectful toeveryone in the room, especially to those who are trying tohear the auctioneer. If I can hear yourconversation over the auctioneer, I will stop the auction and address the issue.
Thank you. I look forward to seeing you at the next meeting.

Sh ar on Bow er
Clu b Pr esiden t

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CSNS News Release -- Numismatic Media Version?Rar it ies of 1796? $15 M illion Display At
Expan ded 2023 Cen t r al St at es Con ven t ion
New m an Nu m ism at ic Por t al sem in ar s an d t w o f loor sof bou r se space also am on g t h e sh ow ?s m an y h igh ligh t s(Schaumburg, Illinois) March 31, 2023 ? The 2023 Central States Numismatic Society(www.csns.org) convention, April 27-29, will have more than 600 dealers, educational seminars
organized by the Newman Numismatic Portal (nnp.wustl.edu), a $15 million ?Rarities From 1796?
exhibit of historic early American coins, and now occupy two floors of the Renaissance Schaumburg
Hotel and Convention Center in the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg, Illinois.
?This will be the largest coin show event in the Midwest this year and the largest Central
States show since the organization was founded in 1939. There will be something for everyone inthis expanded convention,? said CSNS Convention Manager Larry Shepherd.
In addition to adding 100 tables to the regular bourse floor space, an entirely new area called
Collector ?s Coin Shop on the second floor will be devoted specifically for lower-priced items forbeginning collectors and young dealers. There also will be main floor bourse space devoted tomerchants who are only doing wholesale dealer-to-dealer business. New security and safetymeasures will be in place in the convention center and adjoining Renaissance Hotel.
The ?Rarities From 1796? display showcasing more than a dozen 1796-dated coins from Half
Cents to $10 denomination gold Eagles will be hosted by Ian Russell, President of GreatCollections(www.GreatCollections.com) of Irvine, California.
?1796 is one of the most important years in U.S. numismatics. It was the first year of
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GreatCollections, three collectors of early American rarities are loaning superb-quality items fromtheir collections to form this one-of-a kind-display at the Central States convention,? said Russell.
Exh ibit h igh ligh t s in clu de:·1796 Half Cent With Pole, PCGS MS-66+ RB CAC (finest CAC known)·1796 Cent, PCGS MS-66+ RB CAC (finest known)·1796 Quarter, PCGS MS-66 CAC (second finest CAC)
·1796 Half Dollar, PCGS Specimen-65 (Finest of two known examples)·1796 Quarter Eagle Stars, PCGS MS-65 CAC (finest known)·1796 Quarter Eagle No Stars, PCGS MS-63+ CAC (second finest CAC)
Gr eat Collect ion s w ill also display an ot h er h ist or ic ear ly Am er ican coin , a 1795 $10 gold
Eagle, 9 Leaves var iet y, pr eviou sly in t h e Pogu e an d Sim pson collect ion s, gr aded PCGS M S63+
CAC, an d valu ed at m or e t h an $3 m illion .
The Newman Numismatic Portal (www.nnp.wustl.edu), located at Washington University in
St. Louis, Missouri and funded by the Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society, will present its
2023 Spring Symposium at the convention with the sessions also on live streaming. Among the
speakers will be the Chairman of the Citizens Coin Advisory Committee Dr. Lawrence Brown,
Heritage Auctions President Greg Rohan, and award-winning numismatic author Roger W. Burdette.
Professional Coin Grading Service (www.PCGS.com) is the Official Grading Service for theCentral States Numismatic Society.
PCGS will offer on-site grading and have Meet The Expert sessions with PCGS Director of
Numismatic Education and Grading Team Leader Steve Feltner from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm on
Thursday and Friday, April 27 and 28. At the PCGS booth (#103), visitors can see a Set Registry
Showdown between two of the top sets of classic U.S. commemorative coins, the J&L and Escalantecollections.
The Professional Numismatists Guild (www.PNGdealers.org) will host its 2023 PNG Day on
the convention site on Wednesday April 26.
Public hours for the CSNS convention are Thursday, April 27, 10:30 am-6:00 pm; Friday, April
28,10:00 am-6:00 pm; Saturday, April 29, 9:30 am-4:00 pm; and Sunday, April 30, 10:30 am-3:00pm(with fewer dealers on-site).
Admission is $15 or $25 for a four-day pass. Admission is free for Central States members
and anyone 17 and younger and also free for PCGS Collectors Club and Set Registry members.
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The Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel and Convention Center is located at 1551 North Thoreau
Drive in Schaumburg, Illinois. Parking for convention visitors and hotel guests is free. That hotel is
now completely booked for the convention, but CSNS has arranged for additional rooms and shuttle
service at nearby hotels.
Information about hotel accommodations and the convention is available on the CSNS
convention website, www.CSNS.org/convention or by contacting Convention Manager Larry
Shepherd by mail at convention@csns.org or by phone at 719-464-8801.

From Joe Boling:
In dy 500 t ick et s available
My numismatist friend in Oregon with the Indy 500 subscription will again notattend this year. Next year will be his 50th as a subscriber, and he will probably let
the subscription lapse after coming for the 2024 race.
So - the race this year is Sunday 28 May, with the rain date Memorial Day on
Monday. His two seats are in the grandstand at the entrance to turn #1, fairly highup (just below the penthouse). There is a good view of the start-finish line, the west
straight-away, and around the corner. For action on the other side of the oval, there
are huge TV screens to show you those crashes.
Face value of the tickets is $145 each. He needs something over $100 each or willsell them through a broker. Anyone interested call me at 317-894-2506 to arrange
transfer and payment. As an Indy resident, it?s something you should do once inyour life.
Joe Boling

Edit or ?s Not e:
The views expressed in any article aresolely those of the author and do not
represent the views of the ICC, nor does
the ICC endorse any advertiser.

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Jefimok Ruble?s and The Monetary Reform of Alexios I
by Christopher Bower
I recently made a purchase that required me to do a bit of research. I like it when that
happens. As many of you know, I have a thing for Wildman thalers. At this point I have arelatively significant collection of them, and it has become difficult to find new pieces to add
to my collection.
Technically, the coin I purchased would be considered a Russian coin. The
countermarked coins described below are scarce on their own. I had come across them on
several occasions, but I never got the ?buy me now? vibe from any of them. That is, until I
found one counter stamped on a Wildman thaler.
Adapt ed f r om ?La Ref or m a M on et ar ia de Alexei M ik h ailovich? by Feder ico de An só
Michael Feodorovich (1613-1645) was the initiator of the last Romanov dynasty thatwould reign in the Russian Empire until the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 brought a tragic end
to the imperial family through the execution of Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra andtheir children in Yekaterinburg on 07/16/1918.
From a very young age, Alexios had the training and influence of the boyar Boris
Morózov, a shrewd politician who was his mentor. During his reign (1645 - 1676) it was up to
this monarch to carry out several important reforms, legislative, monetary and a no lesscontroversial religious one.
In the legislative and social sphere, he promoted the reform that the National
Assembly adopted a new legal body in 1649 and that would last two centuries, whose main
characteristic was the establishment of the definitive servitude of the Russian peasantry.
Regarding monetary matters, let us remember that since the second half of the 14th century
in the Duchy of Moscow, a small silver coin called denga was minted, coming from silver rails
stamped with the seal of the reigning prince.

In English they are known as wire money. The metal was obtained from the foundry ofEuropean talers of various origins, from which the Treasury obtained a yield of 20 to 30%.
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Russian ruble. Therefore, its legal weight was 1.02 grams of silver. But like so many othercurrencies, it suffered successive devaluations and revaluations. Thus, around 1430 its weightwas 0.78 grams, and in 1434 it reached 0.94 grams to fall in 1455 to just 0.425 grams. In 1500
it went to a weight of 0.39 grams and in 1534 it reached 0.34 grams since the size was then
600 pieces per bar.
In 1535 an important revaluation took place, bringing the denga to double its previous
weight, that is, to 0.68 grams and a size of 300 per bar. Likewise, the image of a warrior
mounted with a spear was stamped on its obverse, so this new coin was renamed kopeck andits half continued to be called denga.
Being the ruble equivalent to 200 dengas and this, at half a kopeck, the ruble was thenvalued at 100 kopecks. Resulting in the ruble then, as Mitchell points out, the first monetary
unit divided into one hundred parts.
Michael's successor was his son Alexey Mikhailovich Romanov (1629 -1676).A firstattempt consisted of minting coins of high nominal value, but Russia did not have, at thattime, the necessary technology for this. Therefore, they began by countermarking various
European talers.

The first decision was made in 1654 to put into circulation the old silver kopecks andadditionally to circulate devalued rubles through the countermark of thalers introduced byforeign merchants from the Baltic trade at the end of the Hanseatic League. After obliterating
their original designs, the so-called "Yefimki" were stamped on all types of European currency
such as rijksdalder, philipsdalder, speciedaler, patagones, lionsdaler, etc.
Usually, two and even three countermarks were stamped on those crown-sized
European species. One of the stamps showed the image of the tsar on horseback with aspear, which personifies Saint George spearing the dragon. The other sign corresponds to theyear of issue. 1655 is by far the most common date.
You can find these counter stamps on a wide variety of European coinage. Almost
always it is found on crown sized coins. Frequently the counter stamping process would resultin cracked or otherwise damaged coins. This is not the most visually appealing coin but mostof them aren't.

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Adver t ise in t h e In dian apolis Coin Clu b
New slet t er !
Th e cost is on ly $35.00 f or a bu sin ess car d size adf or 11 issu es!

PLEASE try to have correct change, or at least use
smaller bills, to pay for auction items that you win.
Especially troublesome are $50's and $100's whichquickly drain the change that is available. That change ispersonal money, and it will be greatly appreciated by thechanger and auction assistants to make giving changeeasier and more efficient.

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April 2023 Auction Lotsfor 4/17/2023
Description

Grade

Additional Notes

Starting PriceYour auction lots could be listed right here.
Any active ICC member can put lots in to our monthly auctions.
Send them to the editor by the Thursday before each months meeting.

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M in u t es of t h e M ar ch 20, 2023 ICC M eet in gOpen - The meeting was held at the Northside Events and Social Club, 2100 E. 71 St.,
Indianapolis, Indiana, which was called to order at 7:00 p.m. by ICC President Sharon Bower.
The At t en dan ce Pr ize was an 1885 ? 1985 Canadian dollar donated Jerry Coraz. There were
29 people in attendance.
The Secr et ar y 's Repor t for February 2023 was accepted as published in the Planchet, by aduly made motion that was seconded and passed by the membership. The Tr easu r er 'sRepor t for February 2022 was accepted as published in the Planchet, by a duly made motionthat was seconded and passed by the membership.
Visit or s? There were no visitors at this meeting.
Repor t s of Com m it t ees? There were no reports from any of the Committees.
Old Bu sin ess? There was no old business that was reported on.
New Bu sin ess? Jim Sukup reported that as of this meeting?s date there were 48 dues paying
members, 5 Life members, and 2 exempt members, for a total of 55 members. Sharon Bower
announced that rumors going around that there would be no ISNA show this year are false
and that the location and date are uncertain at this time. Also, Sharon announced that the
ANA Club dues are waived because we have enough individual ANA members to fulfill thatobligation.
Nu m ism at ic Fin ds: Joe Boling recently attended the MPC Fest in Port Clinton, Ohio, and won
a silver medal for competing in a trivia contest, the third time he has won the award. MPC
Fest returned as an in-person event this year after a three-year hiatus.
Edu cat ion al Pr ogr am : Vinton Dove gave this month?s presentation titled ?Buffalo Nickels.?
Vinton talked about his collection, which he brought in to display, along with stories how hecollected many of the coins in this particular collection. He also brought in a penny (cent)board that went along with the Lincoln cent talk that he gave last year. The talk was
well-received and there were several questions from the audience.
Au ct ion - The auction was quite busy, as there were 21 sheets, with $21 going to the Club.
Fif t y-Fif t y Dr aw in g: The prize for the 50/50 drawing totaled $76.00, with the club receiving$38.00 and the winner $38.00. The At t en dan ce Pr ize was also presented.
The meeting was Adjou r n edat 8:47 p.m. The next meeting will be on Monday, April 17.

Respectfully submitted,
Gary Selig for
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In dian apolis Coin Clu b
2023 M eet in g Dat es & Edu cat ion al Pr ogr am s
January 16, 2023 - ?1933 US Gold and Executive Order 6102?-by Kurt Miller* Prize sponsor: Kurt Miller
February 22, 2023 - 'Karl Goetz - Misunderstood?? - by Christopher Bower* Prize sponsor: Christopher Bower
March 20, 2023 - 'Buffalo Nickels' - by Vinton Dove* Prize sponsor: Gerald Coraz
April 17, 2023 - 'Episcopal War Service Crosses: A Mark of Identity? - by Louise Boling* Prize sponsor: Louise BolingMay 15, 2023 - 'Official Counterfeiting' - Joseph Boling* Prize sponsor: Joseph Boling
June 19, 2023 - 'T.B.A? - by Kevin Hunt
* Prize sponsor: Kevin Hunt
July 17, 2023 - 'T.B.A? - T.B.A* Prize sponsor: T.B.A
August 21, 2023 - 'T.B.A? - by Andy Nahrwold* Prize sponsor: Andy Nahrwold
September 18, 2023 - Exhibit Night* Prize sponsor: I. C. C.
October 16, 2023 - 'T.B.A' - by Jim Roehrdanz* Prize sponsor: Jim Roehrdanz
November 20, 2023 - ?The Annual State of the Hobby Address?- Mark Eberhardt* Prize sponsor: T.B.A.
Tuesday, December 5, 2023 ? NO MEETING - I.C.C. Holiday Banquet* For 2023 we are continuing the 'Attendance Prize' drawing at each monthly meeting as an added incentive
for all I.C.C. members to attend as many meetings as possible and to encourage new membership. Everyone
attending each regular monthly meeting will receive a prize ticket when they arrive at the meeting and sign inat the greeting table. The prize each month will be a 90% silver U.S. Half Dollar (or equivalent value coin, $5 ormore) The I.C.C. Board members and officers as well as several I.C.C. members chose to act as sponsors anddonate the monthly prizes rather than funding them from our budget. You'll find the monthly prize sponsor
listed below each monthly meeting date above. You'll just have to show up to see what you may win!
Please keep this in mind each month; regardless of who is giving the monthly program and/or the topic, we owe it tothat person and the membership to remain quiet and pay attention during the program. It?s important that we
respect the knowledge that is being shared with us as well as the time and effort the speaker is donating to our club.
The same rules should apply to our monthly auctions; please remain quiet and pay attention. Thank you.

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Tr easu r er 's Repor t f or Febr u ar y 2023:

Greetings: we have $25,382.77 in the club checking account. I recently sent a check for $100
to the North Side Social Club for this month room rental for this month's meeting. I also senta check for $400 to Mary Magee for the club's website maintainance, etc.
Since my last report, I have deposited a total of of $154. That's my report.

Jerry C.

$3827.44

Th e 2021 In dian apolis Coin Clu b
Of f icer s an d Boar d M em ber s:
President
Sharon Bower
Vice-President
Don WraySecretary
Jim Sukup
Treasurer
Gerald Coraz
Newsletter Editor
Christopher Bower
Past President
Jim Sukup
Sgt-at-Arms
Jim Warden
Board Member 2023-2024
Vinton DoveBoard Member 2023-2024
Andy Nahrwold
Board Member 2023-2024
Jim Roehrdanz
Board Member 2022-2023
Louise Boling
Board Member 2022-2023
Jeff Bercovitz
Board Member 2022-2023
Steve Howery

Wildm an Coin s
Christopher Bower
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Specialist in World Coins,
Tokens, and Medals

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ch r isb8626@m sn .com

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