Archived ECI Newsletters

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CLUB NEWS

NEW MEMBERS: Terry Cross #535 - D. Frank Elam #536 - Charles Wilkinson # 537 - Dan Lute #538 - Mike Miller #539 -  Michael A. Baldocchi #540 - Jim Popp #541 - Michael Kirk #542 - Vince M. Gaspar #543 -

Members signed by Cecil Starcher #1 2 - Steve Drake #3 1 - George Breeding #114 1 . California has the lead in the total number of members with 39, Pennsylvania remains in second with 38. Florida continues to hold a tight grip on third at 30 members - Ohio at 4th is at 25 with Illinois with 24 holding 5th. States still with 0 members remain Alaska and Delaware.

The Answer Man

INQUIRY: "I'm new to this stuff, but I'm interested in buying a coin I saw listed. it's a Brownlee Chevrolet coin from my grandfathers dealership. Can you help me? Thanks, Alex?"

REPLY: "Hello, Alex, it can be difficult to try to find a single specific piece for sale. The best bet is on www.ebay.com -- there are always in the range of over 100 encased pieces for sale on eBay at any given time and new pieces will come on at all times. I don't know the specifics of your piece, but I assume it is part of the 1947, 1948 Chevy series, and don't know what state it is from. I think I vaguely remember hearing about it or seeing it at some time, but I can't remember anything more specific. If you go on eBay and your piece is not selling now (most likely), there is a way that you can set up lists (such as searches for "Brownlee") and eBay will send you a notice if there's ever a posting with Brownlee in it. If I hear of one later, I'll try to remember to let you know. What date is the encased and what city and state if you know? I asked another hobbyist who is very knowledgeable about Chevy encased and he told me that the Brownlee encased is from Lakewood Ohio and is a 1948 cent. He doesn't have an extra to spare and as I mentioned I don't have one. He told me that he'd look out for one and tell me if he sees one."

EMAIL THE ANSWER MAN

2010 has ushered in some changes here at ECI. The most drastic is the discontinuing of our quarterly newsletter. It was becoming more difficult to put an issue together due to the lack of contributions from our membership. Plus timeliness was a factor. Sometimes it was old news by the time the newsletter came out. So this is what we're doing, starting January 13th we have replaced  what was the "Announcement" page with "ECI Club News", the  old page has been archived. The club news page will be updated at least weekly if not daily when news happens. Our recommendation is to visit the website on a regular basis. For those who may wish to print the Club News, one web page makes two printed pages.

We have also renamed the "News" page  as "Coin Hobby News". That feature will be mainly a short report about new coin releases and other pertinent info about coin collecting that may be of interest.

We have added a new link to the home page for the "Mint News Blog" by Michael Zielinski. It is well worth a visit.

Another major change is the "Members" page is now password protected. This has been added to protect our membership from exploitation by the many unscrupulous people infesting the web. To obtain the password click on "Our Members" and follow the instructions. You must know your member number.

Odds & Ends

Steve Swingenstein #123 has issued the following challenge: how many words can be made from encased? He claims to have made 41 using plurals.

Well, Steve may have gone a little too far this time by possibly starting a new trend of giving Santa presents when he gave the jolly Old Elf one of his personalized encased quarters.

Now that Steve has retired its hard tellin' what kind of mischief he'll be getting into.

eBay Watch

New Encased

Puerto Rico Numismatic Society

60th Anniversary

Omaha Coin Club  75th Anniv. 50th Annual Show

2009 Cent from World Largest Penny Pyramid

 H. P. says: "I finally got around to going fishing this morning but after a while I ran out of worms. Then I saw a cottonmouth with a frog in his mouth, and frogs are good bass bait.

 Knowing the snake couldn't bite me with the frog in his mouth, I grabbed him right behind the head, took the frog and put it in my bait bucket. Now the dilemma was how to release the snake without getting bit.

I grabbed my bottle of Jack Daniels and poured a little whiskey in its mouth. His eyes rolled back, he went limp, I released him into the lake without incident, and carried on my fishing with the frog.

 A little later, I felt a nudge on my foot. There was that same snake, with two frogs in his mouth."