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PERIODICAL: THE CLARION WINTER 2025The latest issue of The Clarion from the Pennsylvania Association of Numismatists (PAN) has been published. Here's the table of contents and excerpted comments from PAN President Pat McBride and Editor Matt Campbell. PAN's a great organization with two wonderful (and expanding!) shows each year. -Editor Table of Contents
A Message from the President The past year was very good for PAN. We saw increased membership. Our Fall 2024 Coin Show was a blockbuster with record attendance and a sold-out bourse floor. Our KidZone as always saw many budding young numismatists. The Richard C. Jewell Lecture Series sponsored by Stack's Bowers Galleries was very well attended with a great group of lecturers. The series was hosted by our past PAN and current ANA President Tom Uram. Our Competitive Exhibit Area had a nice group of highly qualified exhibits competing for the top spots in their categories. Security reported no major incidents. The team of uniformed and plain clothes folks have been working PAN shows for many years. We have been very fortunate to have this group stay together to protect our shows! As many have noticed, this Winter Clarion issue has arrived later than usual. Editor Matt Campbell put together a beautiful issue. The fault lies with myself since I am responsible for the member mail list. I unfortunately had a medical set back with weeks in the hospital and enduring chemotherapy. It has been a bit of a rough ride. February seems to be a little bit better and should allow me time to catch up. A heartfelt thanks to all who have e-mailed and sent cards and prayers for my recovery. I am hoping for a better February. Starting with the spring show May 29-31, keep in mind that our shows will now occupy both sides of the Monroeville Convention Center moving forward. Parking has been a constant challenge in the past and our intent is to have all the parking slots available for our attendees and dealers. This has added a significant expense to our show budget but the numbers seem to work. We had to slightly increase our bourse fees. I am also asking for our show attendees to help by placing a couple bucks into our donation jug at the registration table. Please make an effort to go to the other side (South Gallery) and walk through the lecture, club, exhibit, and living history areas plus any other special displays we provide. From the Editor's Desk I am delighted to start off my second year as editor of The Clarion with an issue bursting with meticulously researched articles as well as inspiring narratives of journeys in numismatics. The issue contains informative academic articles such as Lawrence Korchnak's “Norway's Unique Siege Coin,” Malcolm Johnson's “Iceland's Althing Commemoratives,” and Clarion regular Mark Benvenuto's “Canada's Real Silver Dollars 1935- 1966.” Michael V. Hicks gives us the cover story, “Can I Get Your ‘John Hancock?' Autographed Bank Notes Add a Unique Touch.” Many of us collect banknotes, but Hicks has upped the challenge and the reward by collecting ink autographs to complement the facsimile signatures of all of those Treasury secretaries and others. On the general numismatic interest but no less engaging side, Paul Schultz shares an ingenious idea for a rewarding collection based on his genealogy that proved to be very difficult to assemble, but surprisingly not at great cost in “Rarity ? Cost.” For those who have just finished up a collection or typically collect US coins by series, date, and mint and are looking for the next numismatic thread to start weaving, Paul's article is perfect food for thought. Similarly, Dave Lombardo writes in “On the Road: Combining a Love of Coins, Photography, and Travel” about how the America the Beautiful quarters paired perfectly with his long love of travel and photography, and sent him and his camera to a memorable destination he would not have visited otherwise. Rob Throckmorton recounts his childhood introduction to coin collecting with charm rivaling Ralphie in A Christmas Story. Many of us invite kids and young people to club meetings and give out buffalo nickels and steel pennies, and sometimes that little effort will create a numismatist like Rob, who encourages us to keep up that effort in “How Three Steel Pennies Helped Me Pay It Forward.” The Spring PAN show is months away, but the Early American Coppers Society (EAC) will hold its convention in Pittsburgh May 14-18. Mark Borckardt, the EAC's historian, contributed an article, “The Lure of Early Copper.” Many collectors start off with modern series such as the Morgans, Peace dollars, and Lincolns. Early copper 1793-1857 invites collectors into a world of endless subtypes and varieties. Instead of buying the same Peace dollar but with a different date and mint mark over and over again, collectors must look for numerous varieties, many attainable, of early half cents and cents.
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