As the December meeting takes place, Mid-Island Coin Club will have just passed its sixth birthday. The founding meeting took place on Tuesday evening, December 11, 2001 at the Pizza Hut with nineteen present of which sixteen memberships were signed, three being husband-and-wife dual memberships. Even that first meeting was a Christmas meeting of sorts, but we've grown somewhat in the meantime and this year will mark the fourth occasion that the Mid-Island Christmas meeting will also be a fund-raising event for local charity. This year it was decided to support the 7-10 Club who have been providing meals no-questions-asked and who have been given a rather rough ride in 2007. All proceeds will go to them. Hopefully we will not be rained-on, snowed-on and blown-away like last year.

Although the auction list is a bit abbreviated at "press time", additional lots will certainly show up at the meeting itself. For this event, the club has negotiated the following with the A.B.C. Restaurant : a choice of turkey dinner, beef dinner or pasta dinner, dessert and coffee/tea included for $13.95. There is no set mealtime but we would like to have the dishes cleared away by 7:00 p.m. when the no-business meeting starts, mostly consisting of the auction and other festivities.

Of course it's also that time of year for 2008 dues - which remain at $12. Payable at meetings, at Jeff's store or to our mailing address. Cheques should be made out to "Mid-Island Coin Club". Following the December meeting, our treasurer will be away for a time but rest assured his office will temporarily rest in other fiscally responsible hands. We'll still be able to take your money - count on it.

ast but not least: this Journal number contains a continuation of Tolling Jennings' award-winning series on the "renaissance" of U.S. coin designs in the early 20th Century

Wayne Jacobs is numismatic expert. He is the award winning author of numerous articles. He is the secretary and editor of the "Mid-Island Coin Club Numismatic Journal"of Nanaimo, Vancouver Island , British Columbia. The MICC journal are hosted here: MICC webpages Copyright 2006 Wayne Jacobs. This article may be reprinted freely for non commercial purpose only if the resource box is left intact, linking back to us.