PAN CIVIL WAR MONEY & MEMORABILIA SHOWCASE

 

The Civil War Money & Memorabilia Showcase is launched to honor the 160th Anniversary of the Civil War including how money changed the war...and how the Civil War changed our money, including lasting legacies we see today. The Showcase will be hosted at the Pennsylvania Association of Numismatists (PAN) Coin Show. The Showcase will include exhibits, talks, and show and tell-type presentations suitable for all ages. Topics and exhibits include minting, printing and counterfeiting matters of the Civil War.

• Dates: May 19, 20, and 21, 2022
• Hours:
  • May 19: noon – 4pm;
  • May 20: 10 am. to 6 pm;
  • May 21 10 am – 4 pm
• Location:

Here's a sampling of some of the presentations, exhibits and programs in the works. Detailed schedules and times will be available at Websites for https://pancoins.org and https://no-small-change.org

Special Exhibits and Programs:
The Gold of the SS Central America
Robert (Bob) D. Evans, Historian and Curator of the SS Central America's gold recovery, will share images and stories about the process of recovering millions of dollars of gold coins and bars from 800 ft. depth in the Atlantic Ocean. When this tragedy happened in 1857, it caused a national banking panic. With Author Rick Lank they will expand on how the sinking of the SS Central America was part of the calamitous pre-war professional background of U.S. General William Tecumseh Sherman...the Banker!

Featured Program:
Money Matters of the Civil War
Living Historian Dennis Boggs, portraying President Abraham Lincoln, will chat with Rebecca Rush and Rick Lank about what would have been in HIS wallet in 1862 and 1863! Stories will include segments such as No Small Change: Tsunami of Store Tokens and Fresh Off the Press: the U.S. Treasury Prints Greenbacks, our First U.S. Paper Money.

Featured Program:
The Furious Flight of the Confederate Treasure Train
Rick Lank, Author, tells tales about train loads of trunks and barrels of gold, silver, copper and paper money secretly hustled out of Richmond VA after the Confederacy fell to the Union in April 1865. Based on the book of the same name, Lank follows one-or-more Trains rolling through the South to their final ends, on-and-off the rails!

Talks in Ten (minutes):
Encased Postage
Wayne Homren, Editor of The E-Sylum Numismatic Newsletter, will share information about the incredibly creative use of encased postage during the Civil War because there was, truly, No Small Change.

Talks in Ten (minutes):
Loyal Women: Memorabilia and Collectibles Honoring Women's Civil War History
Rebecca Rush discusses the Women's Relief Corp, (Auxiliary of the Grand Army of the Republic) and memorabilia honoring other Loyal Women of America who provided Homefront relief work and raised millions of dollars through Sanitary Fairs.

SPONSORSHIPS WILL BE APPRECIATED!
Sponsors are actively being sought for our Abraham Lincoln segments, for FILMING the sessions and for each Exhibitor. Sponsor's logos and appropriate recognition will be associated with the overall Showcase and with sponsored exhibits, special programs and the new Talks-in-Ten series.

Contact Rebecca Rush at cwshowcase@no-small-change.org or by telephone at 240-625-2583 for proposed sponsorship levels.

Presenters' brief bios, sponsor information and additional programs will be updated weekly at https://no-small-change.org.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
WOMEN'S RELIEF CORPS AT CIVIL WAR SHOWCASE (https://www.coinbooks.org/v25/esylum_v25n15a17.html)

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