Announcing: The Aluminum Coin Collector's Society
BillyKingsley
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I wish to announce the formation of The Aluminum Coin Collector's Society. It was created today to promote the knowledge of, and collecting of, coins, tokens and medals made of aluminum.
Here is the information on our website:
The Aluminum Coin Collector's Society was founded on January 2nd, 2011 to promote the knowledge, appreciation and collecting of aluminum coins, medals and tokens from around the world.
The Society is free for anyone who wishes to join, simply send an email to aluminumcoins at yahoo.com and you will recieve your official member number, and perhaps an occasional newsletter and hopefully, in time, a membership card that you can print out from home.
The goal is to eventually become an ANA Member Club with meetings held at various large numismatic shows and events.
Billy Kingsley
Founder, President, and Member #1
Here is our website:
Our Website
And we're even on Facebook!
Our Facebook Page
I am working on posting scanned images of my aluminum coins from my collection, but if any of you want to become members and contribute images for our website I would be very appreciative of that, as I am still fairly new to collecting and don't have a large collection to pull from. I don't have much on there right now but over the next few days I'll be adding the rest of my collection.
Here is the information on our website:
The Aluminum Coin Collector's Society was founded on January 2nd, 2011 to promote the knowledge, appreciation and collecting of aluminum coins, medals and tokens from around the world.
The Society is free for anyone who wishes to join, simply send an email to aluminumcoins at yahoo.com and you will recieve your official member number, and perhaps an occasional newsletter and hopefully, in time, a membership card that you can print out from home.
The goal is to eventually become an ANA Member Club with meetings held at various large numismatic shows and events.
Billy Kingsley
Founder, President, and Member #1
Here is our website:
Our Website
And we're even on Facebook!
Our Facebook Page
I am working on posting scanned images of my aluminum coins from my collection, but if any of you want to become members and contribute images for our website I would be very appreciative of that, as I am still fairly new to collecting and don't have a large collection to pull from. I don't have much on there right now but over the next few days I'll be adding the rest of my collection.
Billy Kingsley ANA R-3146356 Cardboard History // Numismatic History
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Gary
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Good Luck with the venture.
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It's probably about time aluminum coins started getting some respect.
Zohar, that was actually the first coin issued by Israel, wasn't it? Very nice example. I have several (probably about a half dozen) aluminum Israel issues waiting to be scanned and uploaded. Not that one though.
Contributed images would be very nice and helpfull- my collection is rather small, actually, and there is more I don't have than do!
get the attention from collectors and mints that it deserves. It's so useful because
so many thigs now days are just throwaway. Even our pennies tend to be used once
and discarded or allowed to accumulate indefinitely. It's a vast waste of resourses to
have so many billions of coins in landfill and hoards. Our nickel is th ideal candidate
to make of nickel snce it's large enough to still have a little weight and the current
cost of production is well over 5c. This is a coin we'll ned for years yet and it would
be prudent to hve som circulating in a materal that's not likely to be hoarded and can
be minted at a pace necessary to keep them available to make change.
The same things that make aluminum desirable for minters works to make them de-
sirable for collectors; their low cost and impermanence. The old coins just pass into
drawers and hoards but aluminum has an enormous attrition rate. They not only get
destroyed and lost but are also often degraded or bent and gouged. They're beautiful
coins when they become heavily worn but few last so long. Large percentages of some
issues just sort f evaporate over time and when the issuer tries to gather them up for
melting there just aren't many left to destroy.
You can already see how tough these can be with issues like th '50-E East Grman 10p
which lists for $1300 now in nice choice unc. One has to suspect that his coin isn't
very common even in bad shape.
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