Readers who plan to attend the Portland ANA
Show in March will want to play close attention to this week's lead story. Also, Bob Stark shares an inquiry with us.
First, JRCS news about the Spring ANA:
We have confirmation on a JRCS get-together at the Spring ANA
in Portland, Oregon. The John Reich Collectors Society will meet
on Friday, March 6 at 8:30 AM in Room
E143. This information will be published
in the official show guide as well. What
you won't see in the show guide is the exciting, more detailed information that
you will find here. The highlight of the
JRCS meeting will be a presentation by Winston Zack. Winston has developed a brief presentation on
the topic of contemporary counterfeit bust dimes.
Winston says, "there is a growing interest in
contemporary counterfeits in the last couple of years, especially with
Davignon's updated second edition of his book, "Contemporary Counterfeit
Capped Bust Half Dollars," and "Early Quarter Dollars of the United
States Mint" by Rea, Peterson, Karoleff, and Kovach. It would be only natural to continue the
discussion of counterfeiting America's
earliest Federal silver coinage by presenting on counterfeit bust dimes."
If you are a JRCS member or just interested in the topic,
you are welcome to attend! The meeting
will conclude in time for attendees to get to the bourse for the "opening
bell."
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Bob Stark wrote:
A query for fellow JRCS'ers:
Have you seen clips on early dollars? Are they
common? One might think that planchets prepared in advance and having
imperfections might have gone to melt along with the poor strikes.
Best regards,
Bob Stark
