EVENTS AT THE 2016 NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL

Seeing Skyler Liechty’s very welcome announcement that Dave Bowers will address the MCA meeting at NYINC on January 9th reminds me that I should have advised you before now of the British Numismatic Society meeting on the same day!

The London-based BNS was founded in 1903 and this will be our first ever meeting held outside the UK. Our aim is that it will become an annual gathering at the NYINC and lead to further contact and involvement with our growing North American membership.

The meeting will be in the Beekman Suite at the Waldorf-Astoria on January 9th at 4 PM. The chair will be occupied by Ken Eckardt, a renowned specialist in West Indies cut and countermarked coins, and the speaker will be Peter Preston-Morley, the subject matter ‘The Transition from Hammered to Milled Coinage in the British Isles’. Besides being the secretary of the BNS, the speaker has been a regular at NYINC since the Dick Margolis-organised shows of fond memory.

All those who are visiting the show and interested in British coins are very welcome to attend and there will be an opportunity to win a year’s free Society membership!

I'm embarrassed to say this, but I have never been to a New York International show. That's sort of changing this year as I have plans to be in the city for an American Numismatic Society event at the Waldorf Astoria and a visit to their offices. My wife is coming along, so rather than haunting the coin show at other times, we'll be touring the city.

In addition to the blockbuster auctions by Classical Numismatics Group, Heritage, Stack's Bowers-Ponterio and Baldwin's, and the major numismatic literature sale by Kolbe-Fanning, there are a number of organization meetings and presentations taking place. Here are the events for Saturday, January 9, 2016. -Editor

10am: Meeting: Ancient Coin Collectors Guild
Program: Peter Tompa
Cultural Property Update
Lexington Suite

11am: Meeting: Association of Dedicated Byzantine Collectors
Program: Don Squires
Unpublished Transitional Hyperpyra of John III Vatatzes
Beekman Suite

NOON: Meeting: Medal Collectors of America
Program: Q. David Bowers
The Lure and Lore of American Medals
Lexington Suite

1pm: Program: Sponsored by the New York Numismatic Club
Mark Anderson
Swedish Private Bank Notes: Economic Context and Historical Sensibilities
Beekman Suite

3PM: Meeting: Sponsored by the New York International Numismatic Convention
Jyrki Muona
The Imperial and Provincial Coin Age of Otho
Lexington Suite

4pm: Meeting: British Numismatic Society
Program: Peter Preston-Morley
The Transition from Hammered to Milled Coinage in the British Isles
Beekman Suite

5pm: Meeting: Oriental Numismatic Society
Program: Roundtable Discussion and questions on all aspects of Oriental numismatics
Lexington Suite

7:30pm: Meeting: Bermanian Guild of Numismatics
Hosted by Their Royal Majestic Alanus I Rex Bermaniae and Barbara Regina
Program: His Royal Majestic Alanus I
Topic to be Announced
Beekman Suite