ANS COAC TO BE HELD IN BALTIMORE OCTOBER 30, 2014

Coinage of the Americas Conference (COAC) to be held at the Annual C4 Convention at the Whitman Expo in Baltimore in October The American Numismatic Society and the Colonial Coin Collectors Club will jointly present on Thursday, October 30, 2014 “Circulating Coinage in Pre-­‐Federal America,” a Stack Family Coinage of the Americas Conference.

This program, for ANS and C4 Members only, is generously funded by C4 and the Stack Family Fund at the American Numismatic Society.

The speakers and topics are:

• Oliver Hoover -­‐ “Coins of our Forefathers: The Circulating Money of North America before 1780”
• Chris Salmon -­‐ “The Silver Coins of Massachusetts: Evolution of Minting Techniques”
• Jack Howes -­‐ “Thomas Machin: The Man and his Coinage”
• John Kraljevich -­‐ “World Coins that Circulated in Colonial America: Sources and Methods”

A reception will be held from 5:00 pm to 6:45 pm with the conference beginning promptly at 7:00 pm at the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel, Harborview Room, 300 S. Charles ST, Baltimore, MD 21201.

There is no fee for this program, but in order to help with the planning of this event, ANS and C4 members are asked to register by October 24th with the Membership Department of the ANS at: membership@numismatics.org or212-­‐571-­‐4470 ext. 117

For more information, please visit numismatics.org/Events/COAC or www.colonialcoins.org

To read the complete press release, see: Coinage of the Americas Conference (COAC) to be held at the Annual C4 Convention at the Whitman Expo in Baltimore in October (numismatics.org/wikiuploads/NewsEvents/2014_0815_PR_COAC.pdf)

For more information, see: http://numismatics.org/Events/COAC

Wayne Homren, Editor

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