Indianapolis Coin Club February
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 Marion County Library Service Center at 24th and Meridian Streets) 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 to become a member of the club. Adult annual dues are $12.00 per year, junior membership dues are $5.00 per year.

THE MONTHLY PLANCHET

2002 Budget
INCOME
Dues-members
Donations
Other-book sales
Ads-newsletter
Banquet tickets
Interest:
CD-5th/3rd(3000.00)
CD-5th/3rd(1,500.00)
CD-EdJones(14,000.00)
Checking-5th/3rd
Coin Show-2002
TOTAL INCOME
EXPENSES
Accounting
Ads/Promotion (Qtrs)
BanquetCoin WeekRent(Indpls Library)Dues-ANA
Education
Ins-Treasurer bondInsurance-LiabilityInternet
Misc/contingency
Newsletter
Refreshments
Rent-mailbox
State License
Summer social-picnic
Supplies
Traveling Coin Display
Coin ShowTOTAL EXPENSES

800.00100.00100.00100.00300.00130.0040.00
896.000.00
1,400.00________
3,866.00

NOTES
76 + juniors

est.12 mos
new CDactual0.00 tax returns
250.00500.00100.00
0.00
33.00
77.00
100.00 due in Dec.
300.0025.00
100.00800.00200.0090.00
10.00
100.00100.000.00
1,000.00________
3,605.00________________PROJECTED NET INCOME 81.00

Officers:
President: Jim Luckey
Vice President: Mike Suit
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 BlackCoz Raimondi
Jim Roehrdanz

Our next meetings arescheduled for TUESDAY, February 26, andWEDNESDAY, March
27 at 7:00 PM at the
Library Services Center,
24th and Meridian Sts.,
Indianapolis (enter parking lot from 24th St.).

InsideThis

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

Issue:
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Visit our website at: www.indianapoliscoinclub.org
1Treasurer’s Report

From OurPresident
Our January meeting had better attendance
because it was on a Monday. I will make asuperior effort to have next year’s meetings
on Mondays. The attending members werein agreement to cut back the refreshments
to cookies, donuts, soft drinks, coffee, tea
and hot chocolate. This was necessary tokeep our expenditures within our budget. Itwas left open that additional refreshments
could be provided by members at their own
expense.
John Phillips, our coin show chairman, requested help from members to support thecoin show. He needs assistance moving thecoin displays in and out and giving service
to the coin dealers. He also handed out raffle
tickets for the door prizes. The tickets are$1.00 apiece. If you don't have yours, they
can be secured from Cos Raimondi or Jim
Luckey. The success of the show depends
on you, the members, selling tickets. TheFebruary meeting is Tuesday, Feb.26th.
Please make an effort to attend.
- Jim Luckey

INCOME
Coin Show
TablesRaffleBanquetDues$735.00
10.00
20.00
267.00Total Income$1032.00

EXPENSES
Newsletter
Postage
Envelopes
Printing
Coin Show
Advertising (Coin World)
Deposit (Ramada Inn)
State Quarters
Refreshments$34.00
27.29
11.03
40.00
200.0022.00
4.50

Total Expenses$338.82

Net Income$693.18

Balance in Checking , 1-31-02--$3392.43

Secretary’s
Report

The meeting was called to order by our presi- After the break, Jim Luckey, ICC President, announced
dent, Jim Luckey. The total attendance was 39. the winner in the newsletter puzzle challenge – LouCoppinger. There were four correct entries.
The Treasurer and Secretary’s reports were read.
Mike Suit was this month’s speaker. His subject was
The new budget will be in the next (this) news- “Topical Collecting.” He discussed how to begin collectletter. There will be a 50/50 drawing next month. ing and gave some examples of what to collect. He disRemember to sell tickets for the ICC show. Please played some of his “animal” coins.
arrive at the show early (8am) for set-up, or staylate (4pm) for tear-down. There have been 23 During the April meeting, we will be conducting the firstof the coin auctions.
tables sold so far.
- Allen Dove

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This month’s puzzle format is like lastmonth’s, due to populardemand - you must correctly
identify the coins from thefragments depicted. Give as
much info as possible. There
will be a prize for the correctentry randomly drawn from all
correct entries. Good Luck!

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Coin World Trivia:
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1. What Kentucky man born in 1809 appears on a 1923
$5 silver certificate?
2. How does the rotated hub form of a doubled dieoccur?
3. A Federal Reserve note with plate position code D2
comes from where on a sheet?

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4.What was the grade of a Class III 1804 dollar whichbrought $400,000 at auction?
(answers elsewhere in this issue)
7.

January Puzzle Solution
8.

1. U.S. Twenty Dollar Gold Piece
2. Three-cent Piece (Nickel)
3. Eisenhower Dollar Reverse, Bicentennial Issue
4. Franklin Half Dollar
5. Half Dime
6. Indian Head CentLou Coppinger was thewinner of the January
puzzle contest. Yay, Lou!

7. Walking Liberty Half Dollar
8. 1920 Pilgrim Tercentenary Commemorative Half Dollar

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Nineteenth and TwentiethCentury PrussianCommemorative Coins(final installment)
The other event of 1913 was thetwenty-fifth anniversary of the accession of Wilhelm II as Kaiser. The
coins depict Wilhelm II in the uniform of the Garde Du Corps, withthe chain of the order of the Black
Eagle around him. Under the portrait is a laurel branch with the dates
1888-1913, while the reverse of thecoin shows the standard imperialeagle reverse. Unlike the five markand two mark of 1901, which shows
Wilhelm II wearing the helmet of theGarde Du Corps, he is bareheadedon these coins. Wilhelm evidently
liked this particular design, because
regular issue coins of 1913, 1914,
and 1915 - two mark, five mark, andtwenty mark (gold) coins - all show
a very similar design. Mintage of thetwo mark 1913 was 1,500,000 andthe three mark was 2,000,000. The
final commemorative coin issue wasfor the centennial of the annexationof Mansfeld in 1915. Although “mining thalers” had been struck as farback as 1811 under Hieronymous
Napoleon (when he was king ofWestphalia), as well as in the early
19th century under Friedrich
Wilhelm III and up to the 1860’s,
under Friedrich Wilhelm IV andWilhelm I, no special issues had
been made until these issues of1913 and 1915.
A three mark coin was also issued
in 1915, with a mintage of only
30,000. However, this coin is quite
scarce compared to other Prussian
issues, due to the war and the probable melting of many of them. It is

one of the most attractive coins,
showing the design of Saint George
and the Dragon, a theme found on
County of Mansfeld issues as far
back as the 1500’s. The obverse features the slogan “Bei Gott Ist Rat
Und Tat” (with God’s counsel), and“Segen Des Mansfelder Bergbauss”(blessings of the Mansfeld mines),
while the reverse depicts yet anothermodernistic imperial eagle. The
County of Mansfeld was originallydivided between Prussia and Saxony
in 1780, with the death of the malelineage of the rulers of that state.
The Prussian sector was annexed to
the Napoleonic state of Westphalia
in 1807, and the Saxon sector wasannexed the following year. In 1813,Prussia reclaimed their territory, andin 1815, was awarded the Saxon
territory at the Congress of Vienna.
A planned commemorative for thecentennial of the birth of Otto Von
Bismarck (1915), with a projected
mintage of 9,000,000 never took
place, due to the war and lack ofsilver for the coins. In fact, save forhalf mark issues which continued all
the way into the post-war era of1919, all silver coinage ceased in
1916, although some of the statesissuedsomesporadiccommemoratives in 1916, 1917, and1918. These coins are all extremely
rare. The Prussian series “officially”
ended with the Mansfeld coin.
Although themes related to Prussian
history have appeared on coins during the Weimar Republic (19181933), and during the post-war German republics (the Federal Republicof Germany, the German Democratic
Republic {both founded in 1949},
and the unified German Federal Republic {which began in 1990 withthe end of the post-war division ofEurope}), Prussia itself ceased toexist as a result of the Allies’ decision. The Allies felt that, because of
the identification of Prussia withGerman militarism, the state shouldbe eliminated, with the constituentsections being either awarded toPoland and Russia, or with the creation of “new” provinces, such as

4Brandenburg and Lower Saxony. In1945, the core of the old Prussianstate, the province of East Prussia
and the coronation city of
Koenigsberg, was divided between
Russia and Poland. The city of
Koenigsberg is now named after a
Soviet era leader as Kaliningrad.
Silesia and Pomerania were essentially given to Poland, although fragments beyond the Oder Neisse Lineare still German. This was the result of Stalin’s demand for eastern
Poland, which he had seized in 1939
in alliance with Germany, and anidea that Poland ought to be “compensated” for their lost lands in theeast with German lands, which
would also absorb the Poles expelledfrom the eastern provinces after theexpulsion of the Germans in thepost-1945 era. Additionally, since
the Russian portion of the former
East Prussia is now separated fromthe rest of the Russian federation
with the newly independent Baltic
states and Poland, accessible only
by sea, there has been discussionthat a cash-strapped Russia might
actually sell it to Germany. This isin spite of the fact that there is nolonger any German population there,and Poland, which holds a goodly
portion of the former German territories, would prefer that Germany
stay behind the current boundaries.
Even though Prussia no longer exists, it is evident that there are many
memories of the old Prussian state
reflected in the coins of the past andpresent.

1888-1913
Wilhelm II
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They didn't! Though many coins wererounded, other shapes were made aswell.
Coins Shaped Like Knives
Ancient Chinese money was shaped likehoes, knives...even miniature shirts.
Japanese coins were oblong in the 16thand 17th centuries. And about a hundred years later, people in Sweden paid
for things with huge copper rectangles
that measured up to 2 feet long andweighed 45 pounds!

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Metal Strips Longer Than Football
FieldsToday, machines called blanking
presses punch U.S. coins out of stripsof metal that are about 13 inches wide
and 1,500 feet long-five times as longas a football field. The round disks thatare punched out are called "planchets"or "blanks."

52002 Olympic Winter Games Commemorative Coins
Authorized by Congress under Public Law 106-435 theU.S. Mint will issue two commemorative coins to support the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games. A
portion of the proceeds from the sale of each coin -$35 for gold and $10 for silver-- is authorized to help
support the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games.

entitled: "Rhythm of the Land." The designer of thereverse is U.S. Mint sculptor/engraver Donna Weaverand portrays Salt Lake City skyline with the Rocky
Mountains in the background.

The gold five-dollar is the design of U.S. Mint sculptor/engraver Donna Weaver. The obverse of this coinfeatures the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Winter Games
Crystal Emblem superimposed on top of the Games'
secondary identity mark entitled: "Rhythm of theLand." The reverse portrays the Olympic flame in relief atop a cauldron.

Gold five-dollar; 90% gold and 10% alloy, diameteris 0.850 (±0.003) inch or 21.59 (±0.08) mm and theweight is 8.359 (±0.42) grams.

Metal composition of the coins is as follows:

Silver one-dollar; 90% silver and 10% alloy, diameter is 1.500 (±0.003) inches or 38.10 (±0.08) mm
and the weight is 26.730 (±0.400) grams.
These coins may be ordered in both proof and uncirculated condition and with various packaging options
at different prices. An official Certificate of Authenticity accompanies each option.

The silver dollar obverse is the design of U.S. Mint
sculptor/engraver John Mercanti. It features the Crystal Emblem of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, Olympic Rings, and the Games' secondary identity markCoin World Trivia Answers: 1. Abraham Lincoln 2. When there is a turning or rotation of the second impression from the first during hubbing 3. Lower left-hand side 4. Extremely Fine 40.

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This month’s educational program will be presented by Vinton Dove.
He will speak on the topic of Mercur
y Dimes.
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