The minds of many are on topics other than coins today, but we do have a couple things numismatic for you to consider.
Ron Swerdloff wrote:
The talk by Winston Zack on
contemporary counterfeit bust dimes sounds like a terrific topic. I have never
had a face to face meeting with Winston although we have communicated on a
number of occasions about an area of common numismatic interest: 3 cent silver
coins. In the process of collecting this relatively out of favor small US coin I acquired a number of contemporary
counterfeits. In the present inflated world it is hard imagine the effort/gain
ratio of making small numbers of small coins but there apparently was a
perceived benefit or perhaps a pleasure in fooling people. My interests have
evolved over my numismatic years into Colonial “American” and Spanish Coins.
These coins were routinely counterfeited and in the latter case I have an
example of a contemporary Spanish 8 Real counterfeit with a contemporary
counterfeit English counter-stamp. I suspect that the two counterfeit efforts
were serial rather than concurrent.
I hope I can join other members of JRCS at Winston’s talk.
Regards,
Ron Swerdloff
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John Okerson wrote:
I haven’t heard much about JRCS participation and activities
at the forthcoming EAC conference. I’d sure like to know so I might
optimize my time there.
John Okerson
