Service to the numismatic community of

Southeastern North Carolina since 1963

BOOSTERS

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expenses.

 

PRESIDENT’S CORNER

     This month I’d like to give my input on
how I see things going in our Coin Club, and actually I believe things are
going pretty well. Being a pessimist, that is quite a statement.

     At this time I would like to focus mainly
on the Azalea Festival Coin Show coming up on April 11^th & 12^th.
This is our main event of the year and from the reports I received at the last
regular meeting I am very much encouraged. I was able to meet with my fellow
Bourse Committee members O.T. Thompson (who chairs the committee) and Charles
Campbell at O.T’s home, and was informed we have sold all available tables for
the show. We actually have dealers on a waiting list. Security has been
arranged for the show starting on Friday, this will make it possible for
dealers to bring in their merchandise the night before the event. Best of all
we are able to lower our security cost by going with a private security firm
instead of the sheriff’s department.

     Karen Foster and Ray Flanigan have
Publicity for the show well in hand. The show will be advertised in the Star
News as well as the Azalea Festival brochure. I believe this next coin show
will be the best advertised so far. Ray can use some help with the exhibits for
the show. Get with him if you have some exhibit material he can use or have
your own exhibit you wish to display at the show. Contact me if you need a display
case, I have 8 at this time. You can pick them up
at my home. Once again, the theme for
our show is the 150^th anniversary of the end of The War between the
States. Getting raffle tickets and prizes for the
drawing during the show is again being handled by Chris Vandall. He assured me
that both items will be taken care of shortly. This is the first show at the Elks Lodge
in years and our only show this year. I’m looking forward to this show being a
big success. Thank you all for your contribution. Some other club business at hand is
getting a budget in place. I’m hoping to get that done at the next Board
Meeting on the 25^th. We still need a webmaster for the Clubs Web
page. If anyone knows a person who is willing to donate their time for such a
project please let me know. B. J. Lester is getting a handle on his
new job as Treasurer and he is doing it without a computer. This is quite a
feat. Bob Neale is doing a great job on the
Programs for the clubs regular meetings. He has most of the slots filled for
the year. If anyone out there wants to do a program at a meeting please give
Bob a call. Jim Savage is doing great with the Sergeant
at Arms job. He takes responsibility for the Door Prize and 50/50 drawings at
each meeting. I’m Looking forward to his participation in the Kids’ Corner
again at the Coin Show. Finally, Bob Doleman’s job as Secretary
isn’t that easy. Despite the complexity of this position he’s giving us
accurate meeting minutes. I for one am grateful for his agenda outlines. I’m looking forward to seeing you all at
the next meeting.   Till next time, Mike.

                                                      
                        

2015 LCFCC
DUES

2015 LCFCC dues MUST be paid by March 31 or you will be dropped from
our rolls.  Please consider a LIFE
MEMBERSHIP so you won’t ever forget. 
Speaking of memberships, we could double the size of our Club if each one
of us signed up ONE new member this year. 
Applications are available from the Sergeant-at-Arms or any officer.

 

LAST MEETING

The last meeting of our Club was
attended by more than twenty-five members and guests.  Club member Ray Flanigan led a very interesting discussion on ‘How to exhibit
your coins competitively’ with many members adding a few tips.

Our auction featured several
numismatic items and many members again were treated to some great deals.  (If you wish to advertise your auction items in this newsletter prior
to the next meeting, contact the editor ASAP.)

‘Snowbirds’ Rich and Fran Jewell
finally made it back from the Pittsburgh area and apparently brought the cold
weather with them.  Rich also won the $10 attendance prize.

Tom Bromley became our newest member.  Please make him feel welcome and help him add
to his collection.

 

NEEDED IMMEDIATELY

Our Club is in dire need of
someone to design and maintain a new website. 
If you or someone you know can do this, please contact someone in the
Club ASAP.  We DO expect to pay for the
services.

 

NEXT REGULAR MEETING

The next meeting of the Lower
Cape Fear Coin Club will be on Wednesday, March
11, 2015 at the Carolina BBQ
Restaurant, 1602 South College Road beginning at 6 pm.  The program will be a
DVD by David Provost, a Senior Numismatist
of the Raleigh Coin Club.  David will
give this talk in person.  The subject
will center on North Carolina numismatic history focusing on North Carolina
commemorative medals. Please come early to dine, trade and converse.

An auction will follow the meeting so why not bring a few of your
numismatic items you no longer want and see what they sell for at auction?  You may set a minimum bid and enter up to ten
lots.

Raffle tickets for our April Coin Show will be sent out to all
members and distributed at this meeting. For every 100 tickets you sell, you
will be rewarded with a silver eagle and a 50c credit, up to
$15, at our holiday dinner.  You may also sign-up to help at the door of
our Coin Show at this meeting.

Common courtesy dictates that side conversations at our meetings be
stopped when someone else ‘has the floor’. 
IF you have something to add to the program, please raise your hand and
WAIT to be recognized.  Talking during a
program severely distracts from what the program giver is trying to say and, in
some cases, causes him or her to lose their train of thought.  If our Sgt.-at-Arms gives you the ‘evil eye’
during the meeting, be warned, that’s the first sign of YOU being
disruptive.  Enough said?

 

CONSTITUTION & BYLAW REVISIONS

PLEASE contact any officer
regarding changes YOU would like to see in our C&BLs.  Many of you have good ideas on this subject
and a few members are forming a committee to work on this.  So far, Ray
Flanigan and Bob Neale have
agreed to help on this committee.

 

LAST BOARD MEETING

The February 25 BM was held at
The Carolina BBQ Restaurant.  Details
were worked out for our upcoming Coin Show. 
Other subjects discussed were new membership cards, a ‘lunch wagon’ at
the Coin Show, Civil War re-enactors at the ribbon cutting, publicity and new
member packets.

NEXT BOARD MEETING

The next Board meeting will be
held on March 25, 2015 at Carolina BBQ at 1602 South College Rd. at 6
PM.   All members may attend to voice their
opinions.  If you want to help on
committees, let someone know.

 

COIN SHOWS COMING
UP *

March 7-8, Raleigh, NC, Fairgrounds.  Contact 919 828-9450.

March 14-15, Jacksonville, NC, Econo Lodge, 701 N. Marine Boulevard.**  Contact 910-548-3963.

March 28-29, Winston-Salem, NC, Miller Park Recreation Center., 400
Leisure Lane & Westfield Ave. 
Contact 336-406-2974.

April 11-12, 2015, Wilmington, NC, Elk’s
Lodge, 5102 Oleander Drive, NEW LOCATION.  Contact 910-520-8405.

April 25-26, Myrtle Beach, SC, Springmaid Beach Resort, 3200 S.
Ocean Blvd., C# 843-293-9000.

* Please verify coin show dates,
times and locations before going.

** We DO have Club members going
to this coin show.  Contact O. T. if you
want to carpool.

 

MEMBER NEWS

The Carteret County Numismatic
Society and the Jacksonville-Camp LeJeune Coin Club meetings were attended
recently by O. T.  As our Club, these
Clubs could also use additional members as, to be successful, there’s a lot of
work to do to keep the organizations running effectively. 

 

ANA CORNER

Our ANA representative, Ray Flanigan, assures us that the ANA
will send a ‘box full of goodies’ for our April Coin Show. 

Among cities lobbying to host an
ANA Convention are Washington, DC, Virginia Beach, VA  AND…. RALEIGH, NC!!!!!

 

UPCOMING PROGRAMS

 These are tentative programs and could
change.

March 11, 2015: ‘Collecting N. C.
Numismatic History’, an ANA DVD by David Provost…LIVE!

April 8, 2015: ‘Coin Grading
Roundtable’.

May, 2015: ‘Kennedy Half Dollars’ by
Jim Savage.

June 2015: ‘Money of the Confereracy’.

July 8, 2015: OPEN

August 12, 2015: Club picnic at the
Park.

September 9, 2015: ‘Update on
Counterfeiting’ by Bob Neale.

October 14, 2015: ‘The 12 Caesars’ by
J. Flanigan.

November 11, 2015: ‘Paper Money 1690
to Now’ an ANA DVD by John Wilson.

December 9, 2015:  Dinner Social.

 Please volunteer to give a five-minute
talk on one of your interests.  Contact
Program Chairman Bob Neale  (910-799-2024) about what YOU would like to
learn or what YOU want to talk about. 
There are hundreds of areas in our great hobby so let us know what
interests you.  Remember, you don’t have
to be a ‘speaker’ to give a short talk.

 

OUR APRIL 2015 AZALEA COIN SHOW 

Tables are sold out for our Azalea
Festival Coin Show in April. Our theme this year is
the 150^th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War.  Many of our Club members are planning to
exhibit Confederate items or things related to the year of 1865.  If YOU have any 1865-dated coins, please
consider exhibiting them.  Hopefully some
of the dealers will bring Civil War related items too.  If you want to exhibit something from your
collection, contact Ray Flanigan so
he can save a space.  Our Club DOES have
display cases for your use.  Plans call
for Confederate re-enactors to help the Azalea Bells cut our ribbon at the
opening of our Coin Show.  Many of us
have accumulated many older auction
catalogs, books and other numismatic publications.  These can be used at the door of our Coin Show
as giveaways and also offered for sale to collectors of such things.  Before you discard yours, please bring them
to a meeting to share or donate. 

 Our KID’S KORNER turned out to be very
popular last year and will be better this year as we will be giving away coin
albums and coins to all visitors.  If YOU
have numismatic items you want to donate, Jim
and Karen will distribute them with glee.

 Please consider a two-hour shift at
the door.  All that’s needed is for you
to sit and sell raffle tickets.  We do
NOT need help setting up tables as the Elk’s staff will be doing that for
us.  Armed and uniformed security will begin at 6:00 pm Friday
so, if you wish, you may set up your exhibits on Friday evening.

 

WEBSITE OF THE MONTH

Thanks go out to Bob Neale for suggesting this website for the newsletter.  If you want to check on a coin which you
think may be counterfeit, go to http://www.theblackcabinet.org/browse/ .

 

U. S. MINT NEWS 

A special dollar and dime set will
contain the first ‘reverse proof’ dime AND a West Point dime, all struck in
silver.

Legislation has been introduced to
change the metal content of our smaller denomination coins to steel.  This will save a considerable amount of money
and make our coins uglier than they are now. 

There is a very good possibility that
2016 will have commemorative coins made to celebrate the 100^th
Anniversary of the pictured designs. 
Wouldn’t it be nice to get rid of ALL the coins featuring dead presidents? To be struck in gold
in 2016???

 

NCNA NEWS

NCNA
Board member, Danny Freeman has graciously offered our Club the opportunity
to host a numismatic program during our April Coin Show.  Due to space limitations, we have no space
set aside for speakers this year, BUT, perhaps next year we can accommodate
them. 

MISSING, LOST,
FOUND

Our
Club at one time had two large coffee pots that will be needed for our
upcoming Azalea Coin Show.  If you know
of their whereabouts, please let someone know ASAP.  Also misplaced is our old light blue 3’ x 5’ banner.

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NEARBY COIN CLUBS

It
is advisable to call the contact number before going to ANY coin club meeting
as dates and locations can change.

1^st
Tues,  Myrtle Beach, SC.  Myrtle Beach Coin Club meets at 6:30 PM at
the Moose Lodge, 479 Burcale Rd.  Contact
856-796-0365.

1^st
Wed.  Charleston, SC.  Low Country Coin Club meets at 7:30 PM at the
Felix C. Davis Community Center, 4800 Park Circle in N. Charleston.  Contact 843-797-1245.

1^st
Wed.  Beaufort, NC.  Carteret Numis. Society meets at 7:00 PM at
the Old Train Depot, 612 Broad St. Contact 252-728-2727.

1^st
Thurs,  Durham, NC.  Triangle Coin Club meets at 7:30 PM.  Darryl’s Coin Shop.  More information needed.

1^st
Thurs,  Goldsboro, NC.  Wayne County Coin Club meets at 7:00 PM at
The Pines, 380 County Day Rd.  Contact
919-965-4855.

2^nd
Tues, Fuquay-Varina Coin Club meets at 7:00 PM at the Chamber of
Commerce, 121 N. Main St.

2^nd
Tues, Fayetteville, NC.  Cape Fear
Coin Club meets at 7:30 PM at the Honeycutt Rec Center, 1911 Wendover Dr.
Contact 910-487-5445.

2^nd
Tues, Norfolk, VA, Tidewater Coin and Relic Club meets at 7:00 PM at the
Pretlow Library, 111 Ocean View Av., Norfolk, VA.  Contact 757-679-0467.

2^nd
Wed, Wilmington, NC.  Lower Cape
Fear Coin Club meets at 6:00 PM at Carolina BBQ, 1602 S. College Rd.  Contact 910-520-8405.

2^nd
Thurs, Jacksonville, NC. 
Jacksonville – Camp LeJeune Coin Club meets at 6:30 PM at the USO, 9
Tallman St.  Contact 910-548-3963.

3^rd
Tues, Raleigh, NC.  Raleigh Coin
Club meets at 7:30 PM at Ridge Road Baptist Church, 2011 Ridge Rd.  Contact 919-832-4128.

3^rd
Tues, Myrtle Beach, SC.  Myrtle
Beach Coin Club meets at 6:30 PM at the Moose Lodge, 479 Burcale Rd.  Contact 856-796-0365.

3^rd
Wed, Charleston, SC,  Low Country
Coin Club meets at 7:30 PM at the Felix C. Davis Community Center, 4800 Park
Circle in N. Charleston.  Contact 843-797-1245.

3^rd
Thurs, Lexington, NC.  Eagle Coin
Club meets at 7:00 PM at the Davidson County Center.  Contact 336-596-3986.

4^th
Tues, Fayetteville, NC.  Cape Fear
Coin Club meets at 7:30 PM at the Honeycutt Rec. Cntr., 1911 Wendover Dr.  Contact 910-487-5445.

4^th
Thurs, Lumberton, NC.  Lumber
River Coin Club meets at 7:00 PM at the Lumberton Reg. Airport Terminal.  Contact 910-740-6751.