By Ken Potter I want to extend a great big Thank You to CONECA’s Membership Coordinator and Board Seat holder, Al Raddi! When he took over the seat less than two years ago he said his goal was to bring the membership to over 700 which at the time it was 650 give or take […]
CONECA member Al Raddi won third prize in the American Numismatic Association (ANA) 2018 National Coin Week Writing Contest. His 350-word essay entitled “Connecting Cyprus by Design” described how and why the country of Cyprus is depicted in the geographically wrong place on the maps on the reverse of the one and two-euro coins issued […]
By Al Raddi, Membership Chair and Maria Rickert-Kittell, Membership Coordinator Our club has a total of 800 members (as of September 3, 2018, when this article was written). 782 members live in the United States and its territories (including one in Puerto Rico). California is home to the largest contingent of United States members with […]
CONECA member Maria Rickert-Kittell won the Grand Prize in the American Numismatic Association’s 2017 National Coin Week Online Trivia Challenge. Maria answered five questions correctly – one each day from April 18 through April 22, 2017. Then she had her name drawn from the set of all the entrants who answered all the questions correctly. […]
By Gary Kozera The Virginia Numismatic Association coin show in Fredericksburg, VA was pretty decent. I handed out about 30+ applications, with about 10 of those more interested in signing up than the others. I have about one-half of the elongated cents left. That may suffice for the next show, which is the Richmond Coin show […]
by Jason Cuvelier as shared in the Errorscope Recently a roll searcher on the Lincoln Cent Resource forums named Jim Fines found and posted a major new 2014 doubled die obverse. For more information on this exciting new find read the entire article with more pictures Here
