We have put 2023 into the history books. What a year it was for the Kalamazoo Numismatic Club! Loads of changes for our coin shows. Take a moment to look back at how wonderful this past year has been. Many new members joined our club. We added more tables to our Spring Coin Show and…
2024 MEMBERSHIP DUES Reminder to everyone except for lifetime members that the board approved an increase in cost for 2024 club membership. Junior Members will be $2.00. Senior Members will be $12.00. Feel free to pay your membership dues to the club secretary at any time. Deadline for 2024 membership dues is March 31, 2024….
June 2023 Education Meeting – presented by Cary Miller, our club librarian. What a great presentation with lots of information to share with the club. From Cary Miller: “The title of my presentation was ‘Tokens, medals & other numismatic curiosities’. I covered many different tokens & medals. It was a great experience researching them. My…
By Ron Mund I have always had an interest in coins at a very early age. Throughout the years I saved coins off & on and put them in plastic bags. Around 1980 my interest in coin collecting grew. I lived in Germany off and on 4 times for a total of 30 years. I…
By Dean Cugliotta Exonumia: Numismatic items (such as tokens, medals, or scrip) other than coins andpaper money. It was not long into my time at J&R Coins that I discovered the world of Exonumia. A locallife-long collector would put on a “show and tell” right in the shop. Most often he wouldbring in coins that…
Saturday, November 4, 2023, 11:00 am – 1:00 pmKalamazoo County Expo Center The Coin Collecting Merit Badge will be offered for registered Scouts at the November 4,2023, Kalamazoo Numismatic Club Coin Show. The show will be held at the KalamazooCounty Expo Center (Fairgrounds). The show will run from 9 am to 3 pm, and the…
By Dean Cugliotta Kalamazoo native and KNC Life Member #75, Mike got started collecting coins inKindergarten. His grandfather would get his work mileage in half dollars. This was hisintroduction into numismatics. Mike has always appreciated the design of the U.S.Benjamin Franklin half dollar coin. “It is a nice coin in all grades, especially when you…
Our coin club is enjoying a terrific year so far. Lots of new members, great educationmeetings, swap meets, and loads of lots on our action tables. We set a new record for ourSeptember auction with 132 lots on the table. Thanks to Darryl for doing a great job as theauctioneer, we finished the auction in…