Coin Clubs?

ceaton,

Not knowing what area you're from I would suggest just going to a local show or local B&M shop and ask. If there's a club nearby these folks will know. Then, just find out when and where the meetings are held and show up.

I searched the internet for coin clubs in my area and found one. Sent an email to the president, got on the mailing list and learned where the meetings were held. From there, I become a full member and go to most of the monthly meetings. We have maybe 50 active members and maybe about 20-25 that regularly come to the meetings. Yearly dues are less than $10 and you more than make up for it if you attend most of the meetings because of the knowledge gained, plus we have door prizes. I've won like three door prizes this year.

Most meetings feature reading the minutes from previous meeting, adding new members (if there are any), discussion of coins in the news, old and new business (often related to the coin show the club runs), quiz question and door prizes, plus a presentation on some topic ranging from grading a certain series to visits by members to US Mints, to other numismatic items.

The club also holds a coin auction most meetings, where bargains can be had, especially on foreign coins. I picked up 1.5 oz of Mexican pure silver coins for just $5 one time earlier this year. The club also has at least three dinner meetings a year (Holiday, Officer induction, and yearly dinner meeting).

The club also holds a quiz question each meeting, with the winner getting a prize.

The club is responsible for running the yearly Coin show and we also occasionally teach about coins at local schools.

Interestingly, many years ago before I joined the club, the club use to make its own wooden nickels and give them out as souvenirs at the coin show.

The club is called: Shreveport Coin Club. The club is very well run and is fiscally sound.

I went to the ANA website at money.org. If you click on the ANA clubs button toward the top right of the page you can do a search by state. I found the Northwest Coin Club Inc. in Minneapolis. They meet the second Thursday at the Kenwood Community Center at 2101 Franklin Ave W. Maybe that one is close to you.

so there isn't a org set up like TU(trout unlimited)?

thanks

*runs off to google *

That is truly remarkable, but I can understand it. Paranoia seems to be everywhere. Addresses are meaningless even if a would-be thief has it. Many collectors store their collections in safe deposit boxes.

Our club actually went to the opposite extreme and went to the effort of taking pictures of everybody and having addresses and phone numbers- a directory! We all felt that it would be great to interact more outside our once a month meetings. There was only one club member who would not participate out of 25.

So, naturally, my guess is that this one member must have the largest and most valuable collection.

In our local coin club with 40 members only the officers have a list of names and addresses for contact reasons and we are very careful with it. We have even talked about a website and some of the members immediately said there must be provisions to make sure no names are on the site. We use my company's address and phone number for club correspondence because no one wants to use their home address.