Indianapolis Coin ClubJULY
2002

A.N.A. C-131170 - C.S.N.S L-600 - I.S.N.A. LM 243
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 30103, Indianapolis, IN 46230 Fax: 257-2220

The Indianapolis Coin Club is a non-profit, educational organization founded in 1939 for the purpose of educating people of all ages in the greater Indianapolis community about the coins theypresently own or may wish to collect. We hold eleven monthly meetings each year (presently at the Firemen’s Union Hall, 748 Massachusetts Ave.) during which various programs of an
educational nature are held for the benefit of our membership and the general public. All meetings are open to the public and there is no charge for attendance unless a person wishes tobecome a member of the club. Adult annual dues are $12.00 per year, junior membership dues are $5.00 per year.

THE MONTHLY PLANCHET

Marcus Turner Takes Top Honors at Memphis International Papermoney Show
I received this in an email to
the ICC club emailbox. - Ed.

I just returned fromthe Memphis International Papermoney
Show this evening.
Please extend yourcongratulations toMarcus Turner, whowas awarded the 2002
Amon Carter award forWorld Papermoney ExSummer Social
Cancelled due
to Lack ofInterest

hibiting, by the International Bank Note Society. His exhibit ofRussian War Bonds
was truly the highlightof the show! In chatting with him, I discovered that he currently
has no plans to exhibit
at the ANA in New
York, but would surely
be contender for top

honors there, if we cantalk him into going.
Please encourage him
to attend.
It is also noteworthy
that at this show, hewas also appointed tothe Board of Directorsof the IBNS. Please offer him your congratulations and support.
- Al BabbDon’t Forget Exhibit Night!

What better way to break in a as a People’s Choice award. InThere will be no new meeting place than to addition, there will be a
Summer Social have our annual Exhibit Night? Participant’s Award given to all
this year, since Don’t forget to work on your who enter. For more informathe show of exhibit this month, and to tion contact President Jim
hands at the bring it with you to our July Luckey, at 788-0804.
June meeting meeting, the first in our new
did not indicate hall. The categories remaina desire to hold the same - “U.S.” and “World”, Note to Dealers: Our new
this event. Bet- and there will be 1st, 2nd, and meeting hall will be availter luck next 3rd in each category, as well able for setup at 6:30 PM.
year.
Our next meetings are scheduled for Monday, July 22, and Monday, August 26, at 7:00 PM at
the Fireman’s Union Hall Building, 748 Massachusetts Ave. at College Ave., Indianapolis. Parking is available in the lot west of the building and on the streets north and southof the building.
Officers: President: Jim Luckey, Acting Vice President: JimRoehrdanz, Secretary: Allen Dove, Treasurer: John Phillips,Sergeant-at-Arms: Jim Warden. Past President: Vinton Dove
Editor/Webmaster: Gail Phillips

Directors: Karl Kreck, Lawrence Wisthoff, Donald Black,Coz Raimondi

InsideThisIssue:

President’s Report
Secretary’s Report
Treasurer’s Report
Puzzle Page
Kid’s Page
Other News

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June 2002

From Our
President
Last night we had our last meeting at theLibrary Annex. Next month, July 22nd, wemeet at the Firemen’s Museum at 748 Massachusetts Ave. I believe everyone will bepleased with the new facilities. Our meetings will be on the fourth Monday throughNovember. It was decided to have ourChristmas Party at our new meeting place
as a pitch-in dinner. I have the hall for Dec.
2nd for the party. Tom Ferverda volunteered
to head the Christmas Party. He will be intouch with everyone for attendance andsuggestions on what to bring. There will becocktails before. More from Tom later. It wasalso decided to forgo our summer get together. Jim, our new VP, gave a interestingtalk on double die coins. Bob Gerth had agreat display from the 1870s on happenings in the US. I hope our attendance will
improve now that our meetings are backon Monday night - that includes dealers.
Thank you to all who helped clean up after
the meeting. The same will be needed atour new facilities. Oh, yes, the 50-50 was
won by Kurt Miller. If you have suggestions,please bring them forth.
- Jim

INCOMEDues
50/50 Drawings (May & June)
Total Income
EXPENDITURES
Newsletter
Postage
Refreshments
Total Expenses
Net Expenses$12.0030.50$42.50$16.3834.00
19.82$70.20$27.70

Balance in Checking - 6/27/02 - $3021.73

Secretary’s
ReportPresident Jim Luckey explained that Jim Roehrdanz had been appointed acting Vice President due to Mike Suit’s resignation. He also
discussed our new meeting hall, and posed
the question of how to handle the December
Banquet - whether we should do a pitch-in or
have it catered, and discussed possible dates.
A show of hands preferred the pitch-in. TomFerverda volunteered to be the December
Banquet Chairperson. Jim also cancelled theSummer Social, due to lack of interest. Healso explained that Mondays should be available for next year at our new hall. He suggested that we book a tour of the facility withthe appropriate personnel.

Secretary’s minutes for June 25 meeting.

Jim Roehrdanz gave a talk on various 20thThe meeting was called to order at 7:00 PM. century coin topics of interest that he collected from Coin World. He covered the threeThere were 27 people in attendance.
legged Buffalo Nickel, the Standing Liberty
The Secretary’s and Treasurer’s reports were Quarter, and Double-Die Lincoln Cents.
read.
Kurt Miller won the 50/50 drawing, with aDoc Gerth gave a short talk about the exhi- prize of $20.
bition materials he brought to show the membership about “America’s Centennial Birth- Adam Asbery won the Rebus Puzzle. Thereday”, which covered topics concerning the were three correct entries. Vinton and Allen
Dove were the other two.
decade of the 1870s.
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The solution to thismonth’s rebus is
Another saying
about our club’sfavorite topic. See if
you can figure itout. There will be a
special prize fromDoc Gerth thismonth! Good Luck!

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Quiz Quarters

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by Marilyn Reback, ANA 129422

1. Which State quarter depicts the same
person on both sides?
2. How many State quarters picture a shipor boat?
3. Which State quarters have a musicaltheme?
4. Which quarter includes the nickname“Old Line State”?

G +-Hanswers elsewhere in this issue.
June Puzzle Solution

With money in your pocket, your are
wise and you are handsome, and you
sing well, too.
The winner of the June
puzzle contest was Adam
Asbery. He won a wooden yoyo with a buffalo nickel design. Way to go, Adam!
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THE LIBERTASAMERICANA MEDAL
by John Kraljevich Jr.
Tomorrow people across thecountry will be celebrating ournation’s birth and its glorious
history at picnics, parades andconcerts, and by watching
spectacular fireworks. But oneof our founding fathers, Ben
Franklin, celebrated theFourth of July by having a famous medal made.
Ben Franklin was living inFrance, representing the Continental Congress, when theWar for Independence ended.
He wanted to commemorate
the American victory and, atthe same time, retain the support of our ally, France.
He commissioned the renowned French artist Augustin
Dupre to take Franklin’s design and transform it into amedal. The medal was called“Libertas Americana,” or“American Liberty”—and it
turned out to be a masterpiece. The front side features
the head of a beautiful “MissLiberty,” with unbound hairflowing in the wind. Over her
right shoulder is the rod ofLiberty and a “pileus cap,” thesymbol of freedom from slavery since Roman times. At
the bottom is the date “July4th, 1776.” This design mostcertainly inspired America’sfirst coins, the 1793 cent andhalf cent.

These are the ten finalists being considered for theFlorida Statehood Quarter, due for release in 2004.

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Doc’s Dioramas

Examples of coins from the1870s

Black Cavalry fought Apaches(9th U.S. Cavalry)

P.T. Barnum took his circus
to the railways

Examples of flags from 1876

General Custer defeated at theBattle of Little Big HornGold found in Black Hills U.S. - Sioux wars began

Inventions from the 1870s - cash
registers, commercial lighting,telephone, phonograph, steam
power

Homesteaders and the inventionof barbed wire

Chicago fire and Peshtigo, WI fire
- 1871

Mark Twain wrote “Tom Sawyer”

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Other events of 1870s - Grant
elected President, silver discovered in AZ territory, Midwestern
drought, Colorado became a state,economic depression, Philadelphia
Centennial Exposition

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He couldn't make light of
his crime. In 1864, James
Clarke, an employee of theDenver Mint, stole cash,
certificates and a 10-poundbrick of gold. He tried toescape on horseback, butthe horse ran away. Aftergetting only a few miles outof Denver, Clarke found hisloot too heavy to carry andthrew the 10-pound gold
brick away. Clarke wascaught and ordered to leave
the territory.
Transporting coins can turninto a real cliffhanger. Legend has it that a shipment
of dimes en route to the San
Francisco Mint was attacked
in southern Utah in theearly 1900's. The shipment
of dimes supposedly fellover a cliff. Though many
people have tried to find themoney, no evidence of thisshipment has ever beenfound.

Independence Day
Find the words in the grid. When you are done, the unused letters in the grid will spell out a hidden message.
Pick them out from left to right, top line to bottom line.
Words can go horizontally, vertically and diagonally in alleight directions.
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PARADESPARKLERSSTARSSTRIPESUNION JACKUpcoming Coin Shows:
July 14 - Indianapolis, IN
IN. Second Sunday Coin Show - 2100 East 71st St., Indianapolis. 9:00 AM - 3:45 PM.
Free Admission. For more information, contact John Smith 1-765-589-3252.
July 27 - Pekin, IL.
IL Miller Center, 551 S. 14th St. (1/2 block N. of Pekin Memorial Hospital, across from Pekin
Park Lagoon). Tazewell Numismatic Society 8th Summer Coin Show. TNS, POB 696, Pekin, IL 61555-0696;
telephone Dale Freidinger, 309/353-6178.
July 28 - Springfield, ILIL. Northfield Center, 3210 Northfield Dr. Central Illinois Numismatic Association
Annual Summer Coin Show. John Corcoran, 1601 Maureen Ct., Springfield, IL 62702; telephone 217/6988326; E-mail jtc1963@netzero.net.
August 25 - Terre Haute, IN.
IN Hulman Center, 200 N. 8th St. Wabash Valley Coin & Currency Show conducted by the Wabash Valley Coin Club. Marvin Mericle, POB 3, Terre Haute, IN 47808;
telephone 812/898-1260.
Quiz Quarters Solution: 1. New Jersey (George Washington). 2. Three (New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Virginia).
3. Tennessee and Louisiana. 4. Maryland.

Collecting U.S. Coins Since 1952

There will be no educational program this month, since it is Exhibit Night. Don’t
forget to design and bring your display to the meeting!
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The medal’s reverse sideshows an allegorical scene.
The infant Hercules—representing the infant nation,
America—is shielded fromthe British lion by the goddess Minerva, representing
France. In Hercules’ infant
hands are two crushedsnakes, representing the recently defeated Britisharmies.
The medals were made inbronze, silver and gold. The
two gold medals were givento King Louis 16th and Marie
Antoinette. They were apparently destroyed during theFrench Revolution. About 50
silver medals were given by
Franklin to high-ranking
French and American offi7

cials. About 500 were madein bronze . . . these weregiven to Franklin’s personalfriends—and to George
Washington, to give to hisbest soldiers. So all the medals which exist today wereonce handled by Ben
Franklin.
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