FAIRFAX CLUB HOSTS ERROR COIN SPEAKER

Board member Greg Bennick, from the error coin and variety club CONECA, will be offering educational sessions about error coins and how they are made. The first of these presentations will take place on the east coast for the Fairfax Coin Club. Mr. Bennick is available for coin club talks to groups nationwide.

In these presentations, Mr. Bennick will be showing photos of coins from his personal collection and talking about how these errors were made at the mint. By learning about the minting process, collectors can begin to determine for themselves if the coin they happen across is, or is not, a mint made error. This is helpful for collectors of all experience levels.

Failures in the minting process leave clear clues that can inform collectors about the authenticity of their coins and whether or not they are errors. Education is a main goal of CONECA.

The east coast meeting is free and is open to the public with RSVP.

 

The east coast meeting will take place on November 12th 2024 at the Fairfax Coin Club (Vienna Community Center, 2nd Floor, 120 Cherry St. SE, Vienna Virginia 22180) at 7PM. All are welcome and are required to RSVP if interested by email: fairfaxcoinclub@gmail.com

Greg is a long-time error collector and researcher and enjoys sharing information about error coins so as to bring new people into the hobby. Error collecting has a fascinating history, and is somewhat modern compared to other subgroups in the collecting hobby. It only really has come into its own in the last fifty years, though error coins are known going back to ancient times. These talks will shed light on the history of the hobby and the coins themselves, offering new insight to a truly interesting aspect of coin collecting.

CONECA can be found online at https://conecaonline.org.

The club, whose name stands for "Combined Organizations of Numismatic Error Collectors of America," is the largest coin specialty club in the United States and has actively been educating collectors about mint error and variety coins for the last five decades.

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