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Six collectors in 1903 decide to form a coin club called the Chicago Numismatic Society...
Late in 1903 six men met over dinner at the Union League Club of Chicago and decided that it was time to form a local numismatic group. They discussed the scope and purpose of their infant society and each pledged to bring one new member when they met again. A report from a January 1904 meeting does not indicate how many were present, but enough were there to give this group the courage to call themselves the Chicago Numismatic Society.
Five of the six men present at the earlier dinner meeting were elected as officers: President William G. Jerrems, Jr., Vice-President William F. Dunham, Secretary and Librarian Ben G. Green, Treasurer Enos C. Verkler and Censor Michael P. Carey. The sixth member, Walter McDonald, remained without office. Mr. Jerrems exhibited a number of silver and bronze Greek coins and Mr. Dunham exhibited hard times tokens with a discussion of our national, political, and financial development.
The Chicago Numismatic Society prospered for twelve years until 1915 and in that time attracted many numismatic notables such as Virgil M. Brand, Frank Duffield, Dr. George F. Heath and well known coin dealers B. Max Mehl of Fort Worth, Texas, Lyman Low of New York, S. Hudson Chapman of Philadelphia, Theophile Leonand of Chicago, and Jacob Hirsh of Munich Germany also honored the Society.
One other important member was J. Henri Ripstra, later ANA president and skilled medal designer and engraver. Ripstra in 1905 created this medal featuring a high relief Athenian Owl Tetradrachm of which the obverse design was adopted as the official seal for the Chicago Numismatic Society.
Here's a scarce example of the first year this medal was issued while William Forrester Dunham was President. This is a member issued medal which has a plain edge since all the not issued to a member medals are stamped "NOT ISSUED TO A MEMBER" such as the specimens in the American Numismatic Society museum. On the medals reverse each star symbolizing a member who joined in the respective year.
1905 Chicago Numismatic Society Medal, Bronze, 50.5mm Diameter, Dies by J. Henri Ripstra.
Late in 1903 six men met over dinner at the Union League Club of Chicago and decided that it was time to form a local numismatic group. They discussed the scope and purpose of their infant society and each pledged to bring one new member when they met again. A report from a January 1904 meeting does not indicate how many were present, but enough were there to give this group the courage to call themselves the Chicago Numismatic Society.
Five of the six men present at the earlier dinner meeting were elected as officers: President William G. Jerrems, Jr., Vice-President William F. Dunham, Secretary and Librarian Ben G. Green, Treasurer Enos C. Verkler and Censor Michael P. Carey. The sixth member, Walter McDonald, remained without office. Mr. Jerrems exhibited a number of silver and bronze Greek coins and Mr. Dunham exhibited hard times tokens with a discussion of our national, political, and financial development.
The Chicago Numismatic Society prospered for twelve years until 1915 and in that time attracted many numismatic notables such as Virgil M. Brand, Frank Duffield, Dr. George F. Heath and well known coin dealers B. Max Mehl of Fort Worth, Texas, Lyman Low of New York, S. Hudson Chapman of Philadelphia, Theophile Leonand of Chicago, and Jacob Hirsh of Munich Germany also honored the Society.
One other important member was J. Henri Ripstra, later ANA president and skilled medal designer and engraver. Ripstra in 1905 created this medal featuring a high relief Athenian Owl Tetradrachm of which the obverse design was adopted as the official seal for the Chicago Numismatic Society.
Here's a scarce example of the first year this medal was issued while William Forrester Dunham was President. This is a member issued medal which has a plain edge since all the not issued to a member medals are stamped "NOT ISSUED TO A MEMBER" such as the specimens in the American Numismatic Society museum. On the medals reverse each star symbolizing a member who joined in the respective year.
1905 Chicago Numismatic Society Medal, Bronze, 50.5mm Diameter, Dies by J. Henri Ripstra.
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2012 Colorado Springs Coin Club Medal, Copper with Selective Gold Plating, 39mm Diameter, Design, Dies and Striking by Daniel Carr.
"The obverse of our medal features an image of the Palmer statue located in downtown colorado springs which depicts the founder of the city, General William Jackson Palmer, astride his horse. Placed in the background is a panoramic view of Pikes Peak. The reverse features the image of a gold coin based on the 1861 Clark, Gruber and Company "Pikes Peak" Liberty Head design bearing the fantasy date of 1862 which is 100 years prior to the founding of our club."
1968 Milwaukee Numismatic Society Medal, Silver, 55.17mm, Designed by Gale Vergil Highsmith.
Here is a silver and bronze(copper) token, from the Omaha Coin Club, mixed in with another medal and / or coins. The "piedfort" design is unique as a coin club token/medal. We also see this on the Ultra High relief gold from 2009, iirc.
Roger Burdette liked it, and actually purchased it from me via PMs here, some years back. Circa 2010 ?
Thanks RWB. Your book is better than our token, but not our club
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I was trying to locate mine to take a picture. Beat me to it.
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Somehow, it is also in the ANS's collection.
An authorized PCGS dealer, and a contributor to the Red Book.
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1861-62 Henry Cook - Coin Dealer “Civil War” Store Card, Boston, Miller MA-BO19 / Fuld F-115Aa-1a, 43mm Copper Planchet, Dies by George H. Lovett.
This is one of only 4 copper examples which has come to market since 1989 and although examples struck in white metal are rated Rarity-8 in copper composition it's seen less frequently. Previously considered a U.S. Trade Token this has just been assigned a Fuld number F-115Aa-1a and is included as a new Civil War Token in the 2014 fall release of the new reference book on the series. This is the second example I've owned and is very visually pleasing with balanced slightly faded red proof-like surfaces and beautiful deep blue patina which appears when rotated under a light source.
The method of usage with store cards was that when any merchant gave change one was substituted in exchange of a penny. All other merchants would also accept them as face value of 1 cent and this was a good way to advertise at the time. However most all store cards were struck on cent sized planchets for ease of commerce, earlier ones the diameter of a large cent. By the time Cook had this struck other dealers such as John Curtis, Edward Cogan, William Idler, etc had switched to Indian Head Cent sized small cent store cards. So although Cook decided to go gigantic in diameter at 43mm these didn't function well for the advertisement route of store cards. It’s the largest of any merchant advertising cards ever stuck, as large is considered 32mm. Cook might have very well had a good amount of these re-melted as the copper weight far exceeded the face value intended.
Henry Cook who would become one of America’s first rare coin dealers was born in Maine in 1821, a seventh-generation Mayflower descendant. He moved to Boston when he was 16 years old and gained employment with a company in the export trade. At the age of 21 he was sent to South America to handle the firm’s interests on the west coast there. Later he served as mate aboard a sailing vessel which traded along that coast and with islands in the Pacific. By the 1840s he was an avid coin collector. In the 1850s he relinquished seafaring for the security of an on land occupation in Boston, and entered the boot and shoe trade at 74 Friend Street. He was fond of looking through copper half cents and cents in circulation and picking out scarce dates which he displayed in a counter in his shoe shop. It seems that he was active in the rare coin business by the mid-1850s. Circa 1861-62 he commissioned a selection of patriotic medals to be struck from his own designs with dies cut by George Hampton Lovett. Another smaller 28mm copper Cook store card exists muled with the reverse die from a circa 1850's Haviland Stevenson & Co. Druggists from Charleston, South Carolina, Miller SC-3. It was written about in the pages of The American Numismatic Journal in July 1889 and April 1892 by Horatio Storer who stated these had not been struck to the order or knowledge of Mr. Cook. In the September 1880 Jenks sale is was mentioned Mr. Cook has no information and never having heard of it before and it's believed that not more than two or three were struck. Now it isn't uncommon for merchants to have forgotten about their store cards as some Lyman Low interviewed couldn't provide any valuable information either. So this may very well be a tentative non completed prototype for a token design Mr. Cook rejected. In 1866 still located in his shoe shop with coins at 74 Friend Street, Cook advertised as “Numismatist and Antiquarian” rare and antique coins, medals, autographs, books, bought, sold and exchanged with cabinets arranged and cataloged for public sale in Boston or New York. Also purchases made at all the coin and book sales in either of the above mentioned cities on commission. On April 6 of the same year he was elected treasurer at the founding meeting of the New England Numismatic and Archaeological Society. In 1869 Cook issued a 12-page listing coin and medal circular containing a few remarks on the American series of Coins and Medals.
The Numismatic Society of Philadelphia was established on January 1, 1858 by a group of eight numismatists including Joseph J. Mickley, William Sansom Vaux, Henry P. McIlhenny, Dr. D. G. Brinton and Eli Kirk Price becoming the first coin club in the United States. Mickley became the society's first president but eventually resigned and on March 23, 1865 the name was officially changed to the "Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia" due to the belief that the sole study of numismatics was not enough to keep the society in a prosperous condition. Meetings were often held in the homes of members where coins and medals were displayed and papers on a variety of subjects. The reverse of this medal features the adopted seal used by the society.
Photographs of Price and the actual reverse design sketch.
1867 Joseph J. Mickley President of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, 50.5 mm Diameter, Bronze
Here's the earlier Mickley medal done by his his father Frederick C. Key and the level of detail is not the same.
This is a die cap error of the 2015 Denver Coin Club medal overstruck on a pewter Horatio Gates medal from the mint's "America's First Medals" series.
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<< <i>1963 Syracuse Numismatic Association Anniversary Medal, 32mm Diameter, Sterling Silver, Plain Edge, Dies by Alphonse Kolb >>
That's a very cool medal Broadstruck. Here's Alphonse Anton Kolb's Wikipedia page with a short excerpt. It's nice to know Syracuse used a fellow update NY artist (from Rochester) for their medal. It's cool that he also did the 1934 Rochester 1000th meeting and 1962 Rochester 50th anniversary medals.
<< <i>Alphonse Anton Kolb was a prolific artist creating sculptures and other art works ranging in size from medals to statues. For many years he worked for Bastian Brothers of Rochester, New York and was the semi-official sculptor of the Rochester Numismatic Association. >>
<< <i>This is a die cap error of the 2015 Denver Coin Club medal overstruck on a pewter Horatio Gates medal from the mint's "America's First Medals" series.
Wow! That looks super cool! Thanks for sharing.
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<< <i>Very cool tokens and medals. Does this one count? >>
I'd say it counts! Have you thought about using that for your avatar?
In addition to clubs and dealers, some collectors / numismatists had their own tokens / medals as well.
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1860 M.L. Marshall, Oswego, New York, 27mm Diameter, Copper, Adams/Miller-NY-1008
1862 M.L. Marshall, Oswego, New York, 29mm Diameter, Copper, Fuld-NY-695A-1, Adams/Miller-NY-1011, Wright-668, Rarity-6
Struck from the 1860 tired dies after the last digit in the date was re-cut along with the addition of a second smaller tree in left obverse field.
1863 M.L. Marshall, Oswego, New York, 19mm Diameter, Copper, Fuld-NY695A-2a, Adams/Miller-NY-1014, Rarity-1
This variety is excessively scarce with even trace red as most all survivors are fully chocolate brown.
<< <i>A complete copper set of pictorial U.S. Merchant Store Card & Civil War Tokens of Morgan L. Marshall. Morgan was the proprietor of a fishing tackle and coin shop located in New York's Finger Lakes region of Lake Ontario whose nickname was “Blunt” born in 1822 in Oneida County. Blunt developed an interest in the outdoors particular fishing and his general store emphasized sports equipment but stocked other dry goods as well. He served as president of the Oswego Horticultural Club. He was important in the Oswego Leather Stocking Club a group that was prominent in the suppression of illegal fishing and the taking of game. His numismatic activities have been recorded but lightly as he was active in an era before any regularly issued publications in the hobby. The advent of the American Journal of Numismatics did not occur until May 1866. All tokens were struck by Scovill Manufacturing Company in Waterbury, Connecticut. >>
The fish version is one of my favorite designs. The fisher is pretty good as well.
I also love the "Fishing Tackle and Rare Coin". It reminds me of fellow forum member EOC's interests and photos!
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<< <i>This is a die cap error of the 2015 Denver Coin Club medal overstruck on a pewter Horatio Gates medal from the mint's "America's First Medals" series.
Wow! That looks super cool! Thanks for sharing.
By the way, how deep / tall is that? It looks fairly deep and I've been wondering if that was due to being struck in pewter.
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The maximum depth on the obverse (taller side) is about 24 mm while on the reverse it is about 7 mm. The soft pewter medal was struck with the same settings as the harder nickel piece that was struck immediately prior to striking it. This caused the deep capped die error.
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Struck in the 1920s for the Guttag Brothers In the 1920s and ’30s, Henry and Julius Guttag were well known dealers in New York City. Securities dealers by trade, the pair was also responsible for publishing several coin reference books, and their price lists are still avidly collected. all were created in the twenties by sculptor Jonathan M. Swanson. Not all the varieties have been cataloged and not all have been published.
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Struck in the 1920s for the Guttag Brothers In the 1920s and ’30s, Henry and Julius Guttag were well known dealers in New York City. Securities dealers by trade, the pair was also responsible for publishing several coin reference books, and their price lists are still avidly collected. all were created in the twenties by sculptor Jonathan M. Swanson. Not all the varieties have been cataloged and not all have been published. >>
I've always been a fan of the Guttag Brothers store cards.
Broadstruck has a great Guttag Brothers collection that he was kind enough to post here.
What is the catalog for these and are all of Broadstruck's pieces cataloged?
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<< <i>Not mine of course but these North Korean officers have an impressive collection.
The unintended consequence of "The Participation Trophy". Pretty soon some of them little guys wont be able to walk themselves to the award ceremonies.
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<< <i>Not mine of course but these North Korean officers have an impressive collection.
The unintended consequence of "The Participation Trophy". Pretty soon some of them little guys wont be able to walk themselves to the award ceremonies. >>
It would great if they got to the point of having fully covered pants! I wonder if the backs of their jackets are covered too.
In the past, there were numismatic medals issued and worn as well. It's actually pretty interesting to think how the hobby has changed over the years.
Sometimes you pick up something by accident
I wasn't expecting to pick this up but put in a bid and won it. Upon receiving it, I have to say, the piece is well cut and has a nice in-hand look to it. It's nice to have something from a club's first year in existence and it's even nicer when the manufacturer is still in the engraving business.
At issuance, prices were as follows: gold $100 (5 struck), silver $10 (25 struck), copper $1 (300 struck). The gold ones were for life members and the silver ones were for founding members. The area on the back was reserved for engraving member names and numbers. I wonder how many were left unengraved.