NENA TO CELEBRATE 75TH ANNIVERSARY

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V19 2016 INDEX E-SYLUM ARCHIVE

The E-Sylum: Volume 19, Number 34, August 21, 2016, Article 25

The New England Numismatic Association will be holding a special event in November. It will be our 75th anniversary and will be held in conjunction with the New Hampshire Coin and Currency Expo. on Nov.11 & 12. Dave Bowers will be our keynote speaker at the banquet on Friday November 11th.

The event will be advertised as we get a little closer to the banquet date but I thought E-Sylum readers might appreciate knowing about sooner as there will be limited seating.

On Friday, November 11, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. the New England Numismatic Association will hold a banquet and award ceremony to celebrate its founding as the first regional numismatic organization in the United States. The evening’s keynote speaker will be Q. David Bowers. Cost of the banquet is $55 and seating is limited. It will be held at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Mr. Bowers, who is one of the best known American numismatists, is a past president of the American Numismatic Association and the Professional Numismatists Guild. He is chairman of Stack’s Bowers Galleries and the numismatic director of Whitman Publishing, producers of many coin-related publications, including the “Red Book” series. Mr. Bowers has authored over fifty numismatic books, is an ANA Hall of Fame inductee and, in 1999, was recognized by Coinage Magazine as one of only 18 “Numismatists of the Century.”

The celebration will conclude on Saturday, November 12 with the convention and annual meeting in conjunction with the New Hampshire Coins and Currency Expo. Events include a program for Young Numismatists with many giveaways, presentations of numismatic topics for all ages, exhibits and an annual meeting with board member elections.

On May 23, 1941, Shepard Pond convened a gathering of fifty dedicated New England collectors at the City Club of Boston as the “First New England Numismatic Conference.” Thus the New England Numismatic Association was born. Annual meetings of the association began in 1946 and have continued to today.

The mission of the New England Numismatic Association is “to encourage and develop the appreciation and understanding of numismatics and the collection of coins and medals; to conduct courses of study in the art and science of numismatics, to give and otherwise sponsor lectures, exhibitions, displays and functions pertaining to the appreciation of the art and science of numismatics.”

For additional information go to the NENA website at nenacoin.org. For Banquet tickets contact Donat Charron at commissioner_nk@yahoo.com

Wayne Homren, Editor