What fun and not so fun experiences have you had at a local coin club meeting?
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For example:
Fun: bringing stuff to show and tell and having the people you show your stuff to get blown away.
Fun: learning about new things and seeing different coins, etc. of other collectors.
Fun: seeing excitement in YNs.
Not fun: dealing with other people who attend local club meetings who seek to find out what goodies you have and then try to weasel them out of you for chump change.
Not fun: listening to reports on club business.
Fun: bringing stuff to show and tell and having the people you show your stuff to get blown away.
Fun: learning about new things and seeing different coins, etc. of other collectors.
Fun: seeing excitement in YNs.
Not fun: dealing with other people who attend local club meetings who seek to find out what goodies you have and then try to weasel them out of you for chump change.
Not fun: listening to reports on club business.
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I found that the best times for me were the breaks between the club business and speaker so that I could grab some food and talk coins with other members of the club.
It was always fun to hear what they may have acquired since the previous month(s) meeting.
Since I was technically still a YN when I was board member, and there weren't any other die-hard YN's in the club, it was up to me (I guess) keep many of the elder members motivated to show up each meeting. (Our club seemed to grow quite a bit in the couple years since I joined)
Other fun parts of local clubs are just sitting down with members you may not know well and just learning about their numismatic interests.
Fun: the auctions (assuming there's something I'm interested in).
Fun: the good presentations.
Not fun: the death of three members this year.
<< <i>Not fun: the death of three members this year. >>
Oh, I know. The same thing happened to our club, and we only have about 60-70 members (of which 30-40 will attend at least once every other month)
5% loss in one year stinks.
I just remembered another fun aspect of another local club I belong to, and that is meeting for dinner beforeahand with a close group club attendees.
Here we can catch up on our lives, talk politics (openly!!!), and just relax while eating good Italian.
Fun: Listening to knowledgable speakers talk about popular topics.
Good: All the club Christmas parties except the one in 1986.
Bad: A band of three members who tried to take over the club on a technicality in the bylaws at the Christmas Party in Dec. 1986. The rancor continued until Feb. 1987 when the member who had seized the club presidency resigned under pressure and, along with one other member of the gang of three dropped out of the club for good.
Bad: A member who was responsible for buying door prizes bought junk from a friend for inflated prices.
Bad: A club treasurer who used his position to trade items to the club at grossly inflated prices. (He was one of the gang of three.)
Bad: A long time obnoxious club member who made outrageous charges against other club members. When this member died in January 2006 no one even mentioned their name at that month's club meeting.
All of the gang of three are long since deceased.