How many Coin Clubs, Societies and Associations do you belong to?
Exbrit
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How many Coin Clubs, Societies and Associations do you belong to?
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@Exbrit its good form to be the first to answer your own question.
Do you consider the CU Forum a coin club? I do.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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I'd consider a "coin club" to require two things that an Internet forum does not have.
1. Membership fees, and some regulation over who is or isn't still a member. Sure, PCGS has "membership", but you don't need PCGS membership to take part in this forum. I've never given PCGS one rusty pfennig, yet here I am. But once you "join" an Internet forum, you're in (unless you behave reprehensibly and get yourself kicked out), even if you are just a "lurker" or even a very casual non-collector; your membership won't expire.
2. An organized structure, with "office bearers" of some kind (eg. President, Treasurer, Secretary, etc) that are democratically selected from the membership and who, while they hold that office, have ultimate legal authority over the decisions and direction of the club eg. whether or not to buy property, issue medals, hold meetings etc. The closest things an Internet forum has to office-bearers are the Mods and Admins, but these are an eclectic, self-selecting group with little ability for the general membership to either join, or appeal against the actions of. And ultimate authority as to whether or not this forum exists and what sort of things can and cannot be said here rests with Collectors Universe, the site owner.
Internet forums provide many of the benefits of coin clubs - the camaraderie, and the source of information, as well as having the benefit of being more anonymous than a traditional coin club. They of course have the disadvantage of being impersonal, and distant - you can't actually see and touch other people's coins, like you can at a coin club.
Coin clubs also don't tend to have fifty people a day "joining" them just to ask whether or not their carpark finds are valuable mint errors.
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
Apparently I have been awarded one DPOTD.
I do not, but that would add a few more for many.
0, I get more out of online coin forums, the internet, and my collecting friends than I ever got out of any memberships, and I now I don't feel invested in any weird club politics
You didn’t put a “0” on the poll?!
I'm BACK!!! Used to be Billet7 on the old forum.
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@SimonW said:
I am not really interested in knowing how many do not belong to a club because I am wondering for those that do belong to a club if they are more likely to join additional clubs and if so, how many.
I think there is a Groucho Marx quote about clubs and memberships...
So if the CU Forum is a club, would each separate forum group within the CU Forum be considered a club?
Just asking for opinions as to what the boundaries or limitations might be. Seems the answer might impact the outcome of the number of clubs one can claim to belong to...
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Let's see...
ANA (LM)
ANS
IAPN
NCBA (formerly ICTA)
USMEX
NBS (LM)
JRCS
LSCC
EAC
BNS
CSNS
FUN
OHNS (LM)
Fly-In Club
GSNA (LM) if it still exists
Plus the online forums, if we want to count them.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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RCNA - Royal Canadian Numismatic Association - LM
CATC - Canadian Association of Token Collectors
CCCC - Canadian Centennial Collectors Club
Several online forums.
Life member #369 of the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association
Member of Canadian Association of Token Collectors
Collector of:
Canadian coins and pre-confederation tokens
Darkside proof/mint sets dated 1960
My Ebay
I recognize most of them. Do you have membership coins for any of them?
Maybe only these two.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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Currently 4 or 5 - depends if you count the International Bank Note Society. I didn't count the Society of Bearded Numismatists either.
Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association
Absolutely I'd count it. The only oddities with the IBNS are the peculiar specialization (i.e. banknotes) and its globalized membership, but each local chapter of the IBNS functions as a coin club - or banknote club, as the case may be.
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
Apparently I have been awarded one DPOTD.
Only if you count CU. Otherwise: 0
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I belong to the George Heath Society ,ANA,
USMEX
I give away money. I collect money.
I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
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Is the SOBN still active? I attended one meeting back in the 80's, at a Bay State show IIRC. Although there were more than a few clean shaven numismatists in the room, we were all SOB's.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
They used to have a meeting each year at the RCNA convention, but they have not been on the meeting schedule for the past couple of years.
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USMEX
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