Worldwide
Bi-Metallic Collectors Club Newsmail # 732 |
WBCC
Newsmail 732 Volume 16, August 21, 2010 Composed
with help from members of the
Worldwide Bi-metallic Collectors Club (WBCC), and weekly published by: Martin Peeters, Netherlands, Focal Point of the WBCC Past Newsmails can be found at http://www.wbcc-online.com/newsmail/wbccnews.html
Welcome into the World Of Bi-, Tri- and Tetra-metallics. I hope you enjoy reading this week's issue of the WBCC Newsmail. 1.
WBCC
Newsmails and E-mail address....by Martin Peeters, WBCC Focal Point. WBCC Newsmail 732
and 733, August 21 and 28 will be composed and sent out by Jack Hepler,
USA. Please notice
Martin's new E-mail address is now: wbcc@hotmail.nl
Note: Due to
technical difficulties and my own lack of skills, pictures of coins
normally
shown with the newsmail may be viewed for the next two weeks by going
to the
WBCC Website: http://wbcc-online.com.
This weekend in Buenos Aires, Argentina, we
had our national numismatic congress, XXX Jornadas Nacionales de
Numismatica y
Medallitica and we made a commemorative medal, this time a bi-metallic
one. You
can see the images, the diameter is 59 mm and the weight is 69.8 grams. http://wbcc-online.com
The Jordan
Bi-metallic Half Dinar issue of 2009, not previously listed in The
World of
Bi-metallics, show the same obverse design as previous issues.
The National
Bank of Kazakhstan has put into circulation 500 Tenge coins from
"Space" series dedicated to Lunokhod - 1. Coins are issued in
circulation
on August 5th 2010. Source of
information: The National bank of Kazakhstan www.nationalbank.kz Face value: 500 Tenge
Mintage: 4000 pcs. Quality: proof
bimetal - silver 0.925 14.6 g. and tantalum 26.8 g. Diameter 38.61
mm; weight 41 gram The other coins
in the series are: “Space”, “The First
Space Satellite of the Earth”, “Vostok”, and “Soyuz-Apollo”.
Ed: This
image was taken from a picture of a set
of Greenland pattern coins. 6.
Bi-metallic
Coin of India
Offered…by Murali
Kumar, India The Bi-metallic
commemorative 10 Rupees is being offered by Murali Kumar of India. This commemorative is in a credit card type
pack. Interested members should contact
Murali directly.
This week continues the
quiz
series called, "Whose Face". In the year
2000,
two commemorative Bi-metallic 50
Schilling coins were issued by Austria. One
shows the face of Dr. Sigmund Freud. Whose
face appears on the other Bi-metallic 50 Schilling
coin of
Austria dated 2000? See this coin
and others at the WBCC website: http://wbcc-online.com
Please send
your
answer to: heplerj@juno.com
Answer to Bi-metallic
Quiz Game question #731 Whose face
appears
on the 2010 Bi-metallic 10 Dollars of
Namibia? The correct
answer to Bi-metallic Quiz Game question #731 is Dr. Sam Nujoma. WBCC
Quiz Game
Prize A Bi-metallic
prize will be awarded for the correct answer. If more than one member
gets the
correct answer, a random drawing will be conducted to select a winner. The Quiz Game #730 prize winner was Keith
Beaumont WBCC member #168. There were
eight players.
Historical
events and anniversaries are often displayed on coins. A very important
historical event for one country was honored by another country on a
Bi-metallic coin. This event took place
over 200 years ago near geographical coordinates 6 degrees, 30 minutes
West, 36
degrees, 30 minutes North. Name the
coin, country that issued the coin and event. (Please read the
question and answer completely) 9.
New Bi-,
Tri-, or Tetra-metallic images...by Rod Sell, WBCC Webmaster The new Bi-,
Tri-, or Tetra-metallic images are shown at: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "See you" next week, Jack Hepler, for: The Worldwide Bi-metallic
Collectors Club (WBCC) was established September 14, 1996 and is the
very first Worldwide Collectors Club using the Internet. Goal of the
WBCC is exchange Bi-, Tri-, and Tetra-metallics and exchange knowledge
about Bi-, Tri-, and Tetra-metallics
WBCC Organisation: WBCC Webmaster: Rod Sell, Australia, rodsell@rodsell.com WBCC Auction/Sales Pages Provider: Rod Sell, rodsell@rodsell.com WBCC DoCu-Centre: Frans Dubois,
Netherlands, dubois.f@wxs.nl
WBCC Public Relations: Cliff Anderson, USA, cliff38@earthlink.net WBCC Research Centre: Paul Baker, UK, 85@wbcc.fsnet.co.uk WBCC Developement Centre: Jack Hepler, USA, heplerj@juno.com WBCC Focal Point ANA Conventions: Ray Lockwood, USA, sunrayofmarion@aol.com WBCC Focal Point: Martin Peeters, The Netherlands, wbcc@home.nl WBCC Website: http://wbcc-online.com
The WBCC will attend the
following future International events:
* Open Day of the Royal Dutch
Mint, 2010, Utrecht, The Netherlands
* 10th Northern Coin Event
2010, September, 2010, Assen, The Netherlands, www.muntmanifestatie.nl
* 7th Coin Event Numismatica
Herentals, December, 2010, Herentals Belgium, www.numismatica-herentals.be
* 40th World Money Fair,
January, 2011, Berlin, Germany
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