2012 Annual Convention 17-19 August 2012 Oct-Dec...

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IN THIS ISSUE

Banker’s Home Spun Money

Investing in Collectible Tangible Assets

Plus other articles

2012 Annual Convention 17-19 August 2012

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Table of Contents

President’s Message 4

Editor’s Notes 6

BRNA Membership Application 3

Old Spanish Trail Commemorative Silver Half Dollar 8

Banker’s Home Spun Money Is No Good in New York Café 10

Hard Times in Buffalo - The 1830s 14

American Plantation Tokens 16

Investing In Collectible Tangible Assets 18

Coin Show Calendar 26

Coins, Currency and other Events 27

List of Officers and Governors 22&23

Our Advertisers 24

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President’s MessagePresident’s MessagePresident’s MessagePresident’s Message

I hope everyone looks for something they are truly THANKFUL for this Thanksgiving and then will also have a "MERRY CHRISTMAS". Time really goes by fast and it seems like there is more situations that happen each day to change our priorities and good intentions. The BLUE RIDGE NUMISMATIC ASSOCIATION received a 50 year ANA membership plaque this year. We will continue to maintain a quality convention for everyone that attends. Our successful 52nd Annual Convention is now in the past and it is full speed ahead for the upcoming 53rd Annual Convention (17-19 August 2012). We strive to be the best and will continually seek new ideals, comments and suggestions to im-prove. Top notch guest speakers to inform and educate, enhancements to the YN program, improvements to advertising, security room the night before our show, and enhancements to our web site along with facebook are just part of our ongoing plans. We are in the midst of an economic challenging time, yet I see more and more investors and collectors interested in the potential of precious metals and numismatics for today and the future. We are blessed to be a part of a business that is so rewarding in many ways.

Sincerely, Grant

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2012 Camden Coin Club's Show

Spring Show - Saturday, March 17

Fall Show - Saturday, September 22

Both shows are from 8 am until 4:30 pm and have the same location. Camden Recreation Department on Hwy. #1 South, 816 W DeKalb St. Camden, SC The Bourse Chairman is Ross LoRan 803-243-9123 or email [email protected].

KARAT AND FINENESS OF GOLD COINS

Have you every wonder what the difference between karat and fineness of gold coins? Coins are usually made of an alloy as other metals are mixed into the coin to make it more durable. Fineness is the actual gold content in a coin or bar and expressed as a "per mil," or thousandths, so .999 is 999 thousandths of the weight are pure gold, the other 1/1000 is an alloy.

Karat weight is a unit of fineness for gold equal to 1/24 part of pure gold in an alloy. For example, pure gold which is 1000 fine. On page 7 is a karat

weight to fineness conversion chart. Continued on page 7

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Editor’s NotesEditor’s NotesEditor’s NotesEditor’s Notes Well another year has past and there has been some exciting things that happened in the world of numismatics. One of the key items was the prices that we have seen with bullion during the past 12 months. With the shows that I attended the majority of the happening’s were around the tables that was buying bullion. Whether this was gold, silver or other pre-cious metals the market was moving.

There was a shift somewhere this year when the collectors started pur-chasing numismatic items for their collections. This was a nice shift and would like to see that trend continue in the upcoming year.

BRNA will have a club table at the FUN show this January, so if you are able to attend the show, stop by and said hello. For the ones that has never attended a FUN show, if you have the opportunity to do so this year, try to attend. This is the show that kicks off the numismatic year and it is really a large show with dealers from all parts of the world..

As mention in Grant’s message, BRNA is striving to improve the organi-zation and to enhance our organization. Yes, that means that this is your organization and if you have any ideals or comments on the ways that we can improve the organization just contact either Officer or Board Mem-

bers to relay your thoughts. A list of these members is located on page 22

& 23 of this Journal.

We have some good articles in this issue for your reading pleasure. Bob Cochran provided an article about a Banker’s Money not been good in NY. At a different time the article from Bill Groom talks about Buffalo in the 1830s. Cori Sedwick Downing provided an article about Invest-

ing in Collectible Tangible Assets.

As most of you know that one of the items that you need to continue to be aware of is security. As you are going, coming from shows, club meet-ings or just discussing the items in your collections or inventory be aware of your surroundings. You never know who might be listening or follow-ing you to your car or your home. It’s a great hobby that you are involved in but if we are not careful then it can be very dangerous. Be careful at all times.

Ron Blackman Email: [email protected]

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KARAT AND FINENESS OF GOLD COINS (Continued)

Correlation between karats and fineness

• 24 carats = 1000 fine • 18 carats = 750.0 fine

• 23 carats = 958.3 fine • 16 carats = 666.7 fine



• 20 carats = 833.3 fine

Continued on page 13

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OLD SPANISH TRAILCOMMEMORATIVE SILVER HALF

DOLLAR

The present issue was authorized to mark the 400th anniversary of the “Old Spanish Trail”, which extended from Florida to El Paso. One of the princi-pal parties in this effort was L.W. Hoffecker. He tried earlier in the 1920’s in promoting a coin that was supposed to commemorate the Gadsden Pur-chase. Congress approved this bill but President Hoover which was not a fan of using public resources for private purposed vetoed the measure.

Another chance presented itself to LW in 1935. At this time he pulled sev-eral unrelated ideas and came up with one known as the Old Spanish Trail Commemorative. In this theme he used a Southwestern motif, Spanish con-quistador history and early 20th Century road building frenzy. He used the guise of raising money for the El Paso Museum to enhance his chance of succeeding with the commemorative coin.

The obverse of the coins featured the head of a cow, which is a literal trans-lation of part of the explorer’s last name Cabeza de Vaca. The inscriptions include “United States of America”, “E Pluribus Unum”, and “Liberty” above, with “Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca” and “Half Dollar” below. It so happens that Cabaza de Vaca translates from the Spanish as head of cow. This was added to the family name in 1212 when an ancestor marked a trail with cow skulls for a Christian King busy fighting the Moors. The family has been proud of this name since then.

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DOLLAR (Continued)

On the reverse is a section of the southeastern United States with a line marking the trail. A yucca tree in bloom is superimposed over the central portion of the map. Inscriptions include “Old Spanish Trail”, “El Paso”, “In

God We Trust”, and the dates “1535 – 1936″.


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BANKER’S HOME SPUN MONEY IS NO GOOD IN NY CAFE

By Bob Cochran

Mr. S.P. Minear, the president of the Citizens National Bank of Greens-burg, Indiana, is also dean of the dry goods trade in his town. In the latter capacity for several years he has made trips to New York to buy stock, be-coming acquainted with several other Indiana buyers who often spend their evenings together.

As the story is told, one evening not long ago Mr. Minear was the host to a group of buyers at an Italian café. After a sumptuous dinner the host received from garcon the customary “bad news” in the form of his check and advanced on the cashier with a view to compensating the establishment.

When informed of the amount he extracted from an inside coat pocket a sheet of bank notes as large as a small bedspread, drew his fountain pen and signed his on the $10 and $20 bills, ran his hand into his vest pocket, pulled out a pair of scissors and clipped off a bill, which he handed to the cashier.

Now all this performance transcended the experience of the nervous individual at the cash register. With a wild look he hastened to the office of the proprietor for a consultation and in a few minutes that worthy excitedly emanated, not to say burst, from his office, with many violent gesticulations and imprecations the general purport of which was, “Money not good! No good here!”

Mr. Minear calmly explained that he was the president of a national

bank which had issued the money, that the cashier had already signed the

bills and that all they needed to become regular money was his signature.

Nevertheless, this lucid explanation was not convincing to the hard-boiled

head of a New York Café and the banker had to dig up some other money to

pay the check.

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DOLLAR (Continued)

Some explanation is necessary concerning L.W., choosing the Span-ish Trail for a commemorative coin. He chose the 1528 Spanish expedi-tion to the northern shore of the Gulf of Mexico led by Panfilo de Narvaes for his theme on the commemorative. With the changes in Spain during this time, with the elimination by Ferdinand and Isabella of the last Is-lamic foothold in Spain there was a large number of soldiers without gainful employment. Marvaes was one of them and these soldiers turned their attention to the New World.

Unfortunately, the expedition was a disaster. Narvaes led 400 men ashore near what is today Tampa, Florida. Eight years later in 1536 four surviving explorers emerged from the wilderness of northern Mexico with a tale of being held as Indian slaves and the death of their compatriots from disease, starvation and Indian arrows. Narvaes was not one of the survivors but Alvar Nunez Cabaza de Vaca was. Alvar was the treasurer of the expedition and wrote a journal documenting the journey.

As to the map, most people attribute the route shown as an approxi-mation of the Narvaes expedition’s route. It clearly has nothing to do with it. The expedition went ashore in western Florida, reemerged in the pan-handle, traveled by raft along the coast as far as Texas and then wandered over southern Texas and northern Mexico before emerging.


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DOLLAR (Continued) The route shown on the coin is a representation of an automotive highway. The first part of the 20th Century, the nation saw an heavy in-crease in road building. One of these roads included a route from St. Augustine, Florida to San Diego, California which was actually named the Old Spanish Trail. The dots on the coin correspond to cities along this route which did not exist at the time of the Narvaes expedition. As can be seen the route on the coin terminates at LW’s home town of El Paso.

It seems that the yucca tree doesn’t seem to give any meaning other than to put a southwestern flavor on the reverse. One might say that is might as well advertise the region as a tourist destination. It appears that LW was ahead of the commemorative curve since there would be 16 commemoratives coins that would be issued honoring places and people. L.W. Hoffecker added an interesting chapter in the history of US coinage. Source: Redbook and Wikipedia Encyclopedia

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KARAT AND FINENESS OF GOLD COINS (Continued)

The fineness is often converted to a percent, as well. If a gold coin has a fineness of .900, that is 90.0% pure gold. If a gold coin has a fineness of .850, then the gold coin is 85.0% pure.

Coins have varied greatly in fineness through history. Notable historical standards that were closely adhered-to include the crown gold (22 karat) used in all English gold coins intended for circulation from 1526 onward, and 0.900 fine (21.6 karat), the standard for all American circulation-coins from 1837 onward.

Fineness is not the only way to value a gold coin; a great deal of value in collector coins comes from condition and rarity. To a far lesser extent, even the value of gold bullion coins is influenced by their physical condi-tion. Source: Wikipedia Encyclopedia

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HARD TIMES IN BUFFALO –THE 1830’s

by Bill Groom

The so-called “Hard Times” era basically began with the election of President Andrew Jackson in 1832. Jackson, believed that private banks possessed too much financial power. Consequently, he withdrew the government’s treasury funds from the Second Bank of the United States. Money then became scarce, resulting in the failure of many banks and financial institutions. Merchants, bankers and local enterprises then be-gan to issue and use their own paper money and tokens. As businesses failed and were then unable to redeem their notes, the hard times wors-ened. The tokens typically served to advertise a business, express patri-otic feelings or make satirical jibes at the Jackson administration. At least

the tokens possessed a cent’s worth of copper! Continued page 16

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AMERICAN PLANTATION TOKENS

The American Plantation Token was the result of a petition filed by Richard Holt, an agent for several English tin mines. The tin industry had experienced a depression in 1679-1680. These tokens were intended initially for domestic use. Upon achieving a royal patent (the first granted by the Crown for Amer-ica), the coins were designed so that they would trade in North America and they were the first authorized coinage for the British colonies in America. As these coins were made of tin, a highly corrosive metal examples in rusted con-dition are often found. The example below are restrikes. Source: Red Book and Internet.

HARD TIMES IN BUFFALO -the 1830’s (Continued)

The above, Buffalo banknote was issued by Benjamin Rathbun, whose signature appears in the lower, right corner. He was the leading citizen-entrepreneur in Buffalo, NY and much local history is attached to the note; this, as can be found in Buffalo: Lake City in Niagara Land by Richard C. Brown and Bob Watson.

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HARD TIMES IN BUFFALO –THE 1830’s (Continued)

Brown and Watson portray Ben Rathbun as looking more like a cler-gyman than the master builder he was. Though Rathbun kept a low profile, never before or since has there been a builder in Buffalo who matched Rathbun's empirical accomplishments. Most of Buffalo in the 1830s, in fact, could be said to have been Rathbun-built. In 1835 alone, he put up 99 buildings, 52 of them stores and 33 of them dwellings. He built the first American Hotel on the west side of Main Street. He built the jail. He built the four-story Webster Block. He built the Darrow Block, commercial buildings, private residences, a Unitarian church and more.

To support his seemingly endless building program, Rathbun operated stone quarries, brick plants, and machine shops. He had grocery stores and dry-goods establishments. He ran stagecoaches and horse-drawn omni-buses. He had his own private bank, the Commercial Bank that issued bank notes over his signature. Rathbun subsequently moved too fast and too far, speculative excess, borrowing money beyond his own substantial means. His “house of cards” was also built upon deception and forgery. When the smoke of the scandal had cleared and the extent of the skulldug-gery was sorted out, it was found that Rathbun had a total of $1.5 million in forged notes.

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INVESTING IN COLLECTIBLE TANGIBLE ASSETS

by Cori Sedwick Downing

You’ve saved and saved all your life, or you just started a savings program, and all of a sudden, your investments in stocks and bonds don’t seem such a wonderful idea. Did you forget one of the cardinal rules of investing, diversification? For many, diversification means holding a portfolio of stocks, bonds, CDs, and cash. For the savvy investor, a di-verse portfolio includes tangible assets such as coins and artifacts.

Why treasure coins and artifacts?

The field of treasure salvaging is relatively new. The first wrecks were discovered less than fifty years ago. It’s an expensive, time-consuming, and many times dangerous business and new salvage opera-tions are few and far between. Treasure coins and artifacts are limited, and that helps create more demand than in other fields of collecting, say U.S. coins for example.

The lore of shipwrecks, pirates, and booty is enticing. Think Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean! The idea of coins and artifacts buried under the sea has spawned not only many movies, but books and stores. Through the collecting of pirate treasure, you can learn a vast amount about the history of the New and Old World and the geography of the world’s navigable waters. There are vast resources which can help you enrich your collection.

As with many other collectible coins and artifacts, prices aren’t af-fected as much by fluctuations of gold and silver in the marketplace. That’s because a coin has a numismatic value that transcends what it’s made of.

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(Continued)

Hence buy the best you can buy so your purchase will be judged by its beauty, its level of detail, and its rarity. And remember that no two cobs are alike, and if they are, one or both is a fake!

Treasure coins and artifacts have a universal appeal, unlike U.S. coins or coins from a single other country. Therefore, as your collection grows and appreciates over the years, it will become of value to people all over the world, not just in your country.

What are the pitfalls of collecting treasure coins and artifacts?

As with any highly specialized field, there is a good deal to learn be-fore investing. There are disreputable or uneducated dealers who will be happy to sell you a pig in a poke. Armed with knowledge, you can make educated decisions apart from what someone is telling you.

Always look for a provenance or chain of history to your collectibles. Anyone who has watched the Antiques Roadshow knows that appraisers always ask about how long an object has been in the possession of the owner, where the owner got the object, and whether the owner has any documentation about the origin of the object. In the world of treasure coin and artifact collecting, ask whether an item you want to purchase has a certificate with it. That certificate should tell you on which wreck the ob-ject was found and by whom.

While owning hard assets helps diversify your portfolio, for the most part, those assets won’t appreciate overnight. Plan to hold on to your in-vestment for at least five years. This is a long-term approach to your sav-ings program, and it will produce sound results when you finally decide to sell. Continued on page 20

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(Continued)

Anything else I need to know?

Using Sedwick’s Rules of Collecting below, you’re on your way to becoming a collector of treasure coins and artifacts!

• Buy what you love and you’ll love what you buy

• Buy the book before the coin or buy the coin from the person who wrote the book!

• An educated collector is a satisfied collector

• Always buy from a reputable dealer

• If you like what you buy, you’ll be more apt to keep it until it appreci-ates

Printed with permission from Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC

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Rathbun had not done the forging himself, but he was aware of it. His brother Lyman masterminded the forging; his nephew, Lyman Rathbun Howlett, was the master forger. Buffalonians, never dreaming that young Howlett was up to no good, knew him as a cute little fellow of 14 or 15 who rode a pony about the streets. Actually, he was so clever that he could execute a forgery under the very eyes of the bankers, and he was riding his pony on what turned out to have been his errands of mischief. Continued page 24

TID BIT Between 1612 and 1616 “Hogge Money” of Bermuda was the first coin-age for the English-American colonies. These coins were coined in Lon-don and introduced into the colony and were discontinued in 1624. They were lightly silvered brass or copper, and was issued in denominations of two pence, three pence, six pence and shilling. The English found hogs in plentiful supply on Bermuda from a Spanish shipwreck in the early 16th century. The name “Hogge Money” derives from the hog. As can be seen in the picture there is a image of a “Hog” on one side and a ship that de-picts the shipwreck that brought the hogs to Ber-muda on the other side. Source: Wikipedia, the free Ency-clopedia, Coins Questions & An-swers and Internet

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Officers

President

Grant Campbell (2013)

108 South Hamilton Street Dalton, GA 30720 Ph: (706) 226-3504 Email: [email protected]

Vice President

James Best (2013) Ph: (863) 644-0903 Email: [email protected]

Secretary

Blenda Brush (2012)

P. O. Box 56156 Virginia Beach, VA 23456 Ph: (864) 617-3378 Email: [email protected]

Treasurer

Wendell Brush (2012)

Ph: (864) 617-3378 Email: [email protected]

Past President

Gary Overton

Ph: (321) 779-4566 Email: [email protected]

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Governors

Corbitt Chandler (2012) Ph: (205) 616-9385 (cell) Email: [email protected]

Tina Padilla (2012) Ph::256-679-9595 Email: [email protected]

Gayle Pike (2012) Ph: (901) 327-1703 Email: [email protected]

David Cieniewicz (2013) Ph: (256) 852-7015 Email: [email protected]

Barry Ciociola (2013) Ph/Fax: 919-656-3265 Email: [email protected]

Glenda Weaver (2013) Ph: 615-654-2622 Email: [email protected]

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Ron Blackman

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By the time the Rathbun bubble burst, young Howlett and his Uncle Lyman were long gone. Benjamin Rathbun took the rap for all of them. While he was awaiting trial, Ben was incarcerated in the very jail he had built for Buffalo. Found guilty at trial, he was sent to prison for five years. When he had served his time, Rathbun went into the hotel busi-ness in New York. Buffalonians still thought so highly of him that, to many of them, to stay at any hotel in New York other than Rathbun's was unthinkable.

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21-22 Janu-ary

48th Annual Coin & Currency Show, Treasure Coast Coin Club, Vero Beach Community Center, 14th Ave. & 23rd St., Vero Beach, FL (PH: 772-778-4044). Email: [email protected].

27-29 Janu-ary

Middle Georgia Coin Club's 50th Annual Coin and Col-lectibles Show. Georgia National Fairgrounds, Perry, GA. (PH: 478-986-9795)

3-5 Febru-ary

Low County Coin Club 52nd Annual Winter Coin Show, Exchange Park Fairgrounds, 9850 Hwy 78, Ladson, SC. Contact Randy Clark, [email protected].

3-5 Febru-ary

Virginia Beach Coin Show. Virginia Beach Convention Center, 1000 19th St., Virginia Beach, VA 23451. (PH: 757-222-4343). Web Site: www.tidewatercoinclub.org.

2-4 March Tennessee State Numismatic Society Annual Spring Con-vention, Camp Jordan Arena, Chattanooga, TN, I-75, Exit 1. (PH: 901-327-1703 or 901-210-7669). Email: [email protected].

17-19 Feb-ruary

The Collectorama Coin & Currency Show. Exhibit Hall, The Lakeland Center, 701 West Lime St., Lakeland, FL. (PH:561-392-8551). Email: [email protected].

2012 Show Calendar 2012 Show Calendar 2012 Show Calendar 2012 Show Calendar

For a more up to date Show Calendar visit the BRNA website at www.brna.org

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COINS, CURRENCY AND OTHER HISTORY EVENTS

06 Jan 1948

Treasury Department announces Franklin half dollar to replace Walking Liberty half dollar.

10 Jan 1944

Mint converts to shell-case wartime cent composition.

25 Jan 1894

Hydraulic press installed at Philadelphia Mint medal department commences operation.

2 Feb 1942

President Roosevelt institutes year round daylight savings time. It will stay in effect until 1945. Of course that has changed over the years.

28 Feb 1837

John G. Chapman chosen to paint Capitol Rotunda painting Bap-tism of Pocahontas, later depicted on backs of First Charter $20 national bank notes.

19 Mar 1831

U.S. suffers first bank heist, On this day America suffered through a rather dubious fiscal first, as robbers cleaned the City Bank of New York's coffers to the tune of $245,000. The heist marked the first such robbery reported in the nation's young history.

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