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The Chicago Coin Club is a group of collectors interested in all aspects of numismatics. With two exceptions, we meet monthly in downtown Chicago on the second Wednesday of every month at 7:00 pm. You are always welcome to join us and learn with us.
Choose any of the following to learn more about us. Or just scroll through and read it all.
The objective of the club is to pursue numismatic knowledge through the study and research of coins, currency, medals, tokens, and other related items and the sharing of this information through monthly meetings, dialogue, and the publication of literature.
The Chicago Coin Club was founded in 1919 and has continued uninterrupted for over 75 years.
The Chicago Coin Club does not buy, sell, or offer opinions as to the price or grade of a coin. The Club's operating revenues come from annual dues paid by members, bequests, contributions, and gifts. All expenditures are for operating expenses or for the advancement of numismatics.
Any person interested in numismatics is eligible for membership.
| Carl F. Wolf | carlwolfco@msn.com |
We meet monthly in downtown Chicago on the second Wednesday of every month at 7:00 pm. Please call one of the above members for the current building and room number. In February or March we meet at 1 pm on a Saturday at the Chicago Paper Money Exhibition (CPMX). In March or April we meet at 1 pm on a Saturday at the Chicago International Coin Fair (CICF).
October 10, 2001 - CCC Meeting - Featured Speaker:
Mark Wieclaw on
Morgan Type Carson City Morgan Dollars
November 14, 2001 - CCC Meeting - Club Auction - no featured speaker
December 12, 2001 - CCC Meeting - Annual Banquet Meeting - Featured Speaker:
Reid Geisler on
Error Coins
Our monthly newsletter is called the Chatter and is mailed to all members at the beginning of each month. Here is the current issue.
Nothing to announce just yet, but some ideas are being discussed. What is your idea?
The one-thousandth meeting of the Chicago Coin Club will be honored with a banquet dinner meeting in April, 2002, to be held on Saturday night during CICF, at the show's hotel (a new location for 2002). Mark Wieclaw chairs the planning committee.
A one-day ANS/CCC Symposium was held on March 27, 1996. The program consisted of ten original papers by outstanding numismatic scholars from the Midwest and the curatorial staff of the American Numismatic Society. A 7 PM dinner was separate from the symposium. All events took place at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, 301 E. North Water St., Chicago, on March 27, 1996. This was the headquarters hotel for the Chicago International Coin Fair, held from March 29-31, 1996.
The club hosted the annual summer convention of the American Numismatic Association at the Rosemont Convention Center on August 11-15, 1999. It will be awhile before they return here, but Milwaukee is on the schedule of future conventions.
One of the items honoring the 800th meeting of the Chicago Coin Club, on September 14, 1985, is the book Perspectives in Numismatics. Its 19 manuscripts cover many aspects of numismatics: Sear on Roman Coinage, Lhotka on Medieval European Coinage, Newman on Maryland's Dollar Denominated Paper Money, van Beek on Jetons, and Pearlman on the Hobby are only some. So far, the text from 18 of the manuscripts are avaible online. The illustrations will be brought up from the original artwork where possible, so the illustrations will take some time.
For the past several years, the club has prepared a handout for all attendees at the meeting held in conjunction with the CICF Chicago International Coin Fair, under the general heading of Odd and Curious Money. The club started a similar handout for the meeting in conjunction with the Chicago Paper Money Exhibition, with each handout looking at an obsolete bank from the Chicago area.
To become a member of the Chicago Coin Club you must attend a meeting and fill out and submit an application along with a membership fee of $10 ($5 for Junior membership).
A 1st reading of your application will be held at this meeting for membership approval.
A 2nd reading will be held at the next monthly meeting, following publication of your name in the club newsletter. Upon membership approval, applicant will become a member. Applicant not required to be present at 2nd reading.
Comments and questions are always welcome. These Chicago Coin Club pages are created and maintained by Paul Hybert, with design advice from Mike Metras.