From: mpcgram-owner@papermoneyworld.net on behalf of MPCgram [mpcgram@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 11:01 PM To: mpcgram@papermoneyworld.net Subject: *****SPAM***** MPCGram 1539 MPC Gram News Letter =========================================== MPC GRAM =========================================== Series 8, no 1539 Monday, March 19, 2007 Fest Bourse Near The MPC Fest bourse will be Friday, March 23 1000 to 1730. It is being held at the Port Clinton Holiday Inn Express, 50 NE Catawba Road, Port Clinton, Ohio 43452 (419 732 7322). The bourse dealers with confirmed tables are: David Seelye Fred Schwan BNR Press Harold Kroll Carlson Chambliss Al Galzer Benton Coin (Bill Yanchick)l Ian Marshall Keith Bauman Kevin Neidy Fester Provile--John Regitko (new Fester) John Regitko started collecting coins in the early 1960s when he was employed at a variety store after school. He had seen an advertisement about the rare 1936 “dot” cent and one day, a customer gave him a 1936 cent in change that indeed had a dot above the date, between “smaller than” and “greater than” symbols (<•>). He took it to Carmichael’s Coin Store located in the Bloor subway entrance on the Yonge Street subway line. Neil Carmichael explained to John that the dot on his coin was on every 1936 cent and was not the rare one which had a smaller dot just below the date. Carmichael introduced John to Jim Charlton’s coin catalogue that showed a photo of the rare 1936 dot cent. Customers of the store where John worked tendered a variety of coins in the mid-50s, including 50 cent pieces and silver dollars. What especially caught John’s eye was the fact that Queen Victoria, George V and George VI coinage was still in circulation along with the newer Queen Elizabeth II coins. He put aside all the Queen Victoria and George V coins he came across, as well as the lower-mintage George VI coins. He also started to collect U.S. cents which were readily found in change. He began noticing a number of die breaks in the 10˘ schooner and 50˘ George VI pieces as well as in some of the 5˘ beaver and 25˘ caribou coins. That got him hooked on varieties, to the point where he went to the bank regularly and obtained bags of cents and dimes to look through. He was lucky enough to find hundreds of die varieties as well as quantities of clips, off-centers and other errors, some of which he still has 4 decades later. The then Executive Secretary of the CNA, Louise Graham, invited John to attend an upcoming meeting of the Toronto Coin Club. He was asked to serve on their executive, initially as a director, later as program director, vice president and, eventually, president. During his presidency, he also retained the titles of program director and editor. His bulletins, up to 18 pages long, won 3 consecutive “Best Local Coin Club Bulletin” awards from the CNA, a feat never before accomplished by anyone. As well, he also won 3 consecutive “Best Local Coin Club Bulletin” awards from the ANA against hundreds of clubs from around the world, again a feat never accomplished by anyone. He attended the founding meeting of the Central Coin Club at the Central Y.M.C.A. in Toronto, where he was elected program director, a position he held for many years, planning weekly meetings (that’s right, the club met weekly). The club boasted weekly attendance of over 300 and between 25 to 30 dealers. John also joined the executive of the Canadian Numismatic Variety Collectors Association (CNVCA) and became chairman of their First Annual CNVCA Convention held in Toronto. Later, he teamed up with Hans Zoell (the father of Canadian error collecting) and others to found the Coin Irregularity Association of Canada (CIAC). He became its vice president and Editor of their monthly publication, the KAYAK, until the association decided to go into hibernation in 1971. During its existence, it boasted a membership of over 400, promoting Canadian error collecting throughout North America. John also chaired the coin exhibit at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, the world’s largest permanent annual exhibition, for a number of years, winning awards from CNE management for best booth display in the Arts, Crafts, Hobbies Building. In the 1970s, he gave up all involvement in the hobby because of lack of time, instead concentrating on the computer supplies company he started. Early in 1979, Jack Veffer called on John to ask if he would let his name stand for a position on the executive of the CNA. John told him he couldn’t do that because he was not a member of the CNA. Jack told him that it would be taken care of. Jack further told him that he was running for the presidency and wanted John to run as his first-vice president. In case the irony escapes anyone, here is John not even a member of the CNA and he is being asked to let his name stand for the second-highest elected position! His name was published in a subsequent CNA Journal as a new member applicant. Two months later, he was nominated for the first vice-presidency by none less than J. Douglas Ferguson, honorary president of the CNA. He ran unopposed, as he did two years later, in 1981, when he let his name stand for the presidency. He was installed as president at the banquet at the 1981 CNA Convention, of which he was general chairman, by Sheldon S. Carroll, another honorary president of the CNA. Following his stint as CNA President, he was appointed CNA Liaison to the Royal Canadian Mint by subsequent presidents, a position he still holds today. He met many people at the Mint who took the time to explain the minting process in minute detail, which enabled John to publish a series of articles about the Mint’s inner workings in the CN Journal and Canadian Coin News. It also gave him the accurate knowledge of how errors occur, information which he put to good use as an instructor during the educational seminars at Humber College in Toronto sponsored by the CNA and in speeches to local coin clubs. At the conclusion of his 2-year term as CNA president, he decided to discuss with Leslie and Chuck Moore the purchase of the Toronto International Coin Fair (TICF). “After being president of the national hobby group, what do you do, become a member of the executive of some local coin club again? Sounds like fun, but I wanted something more! The alternative, after being responsible for running a national organization and national conventions, was to run your own national show,” John stated. So highly were John’s TICF shows...and his organizational skills...thought of that the Ontario Numismatic Association allowed TICF to host their 1986 Convention. Also unprecedented was the fact that the C.N.A. allowed TICF, a privately owned company, to host the 1991 CNA Convention, with John as general chairman. Combining his hobbies of error coin collecting and photography, he created a series of slide presentations involving the minting process and the errors that occur at various stages of production as well as how to authenticate genuine errors, presentations he gives at the Humber College seminars and at local coin clubs. A number of presentations by other collectors that are available for loan from the C.N.A. audio visual lending library were photographed by John. His methodical presentation landed him an assignment teaching a 20-session, 2-hour numismatic night school course at Yorkdale Secondary School on 4 separate occasions and at the prestigious George Brown’s Casa Loma campus. He also organized a 2-day educational seminar (over 2 consecutive Saturdays) in conjunction with various coin clubs around Ontario. John is also a frequent speaker at coin club meetings and at coin club annual banquets where he has earned a reputation of adding humor...and a fantastic array of draw prizes. He has the distinction of having the CNA Executive agree to have him write a column in Canadian Coin News about the inner workings of the CNA, where he pulled no punches in his criticisms when it was due. John also found the time to take on the positions of marketing manager and treasurer of Coiners Press, owned by Jack Veffer, publisher of the book “My 2 Cents Worth” that received critical acclaim from all reviewers. When John was asked what he considers his numismatic highlight over the 45 years that he has been a collector, his answer came swiftly: “The 1991 CNA Convention and everything that happened there!” John, as owner/operator of the Toronto International Coin Fair, received the rights to host the C.N.A.’s annual convention, the only time the convention was ever awarded to a private company. It was promoted by John as his farewell swan song, since he was planning of disposing of the assets of the largest coin show in Canada and going into numismatic retirement. “We had the biggest registration kit ever at the ‘91 C.N.A. Convention,” John stated. “We had more draw prizes than any Canadian convention before and since. We had some of the most fantastic draw prizes at the Banquet, including coin designers’ original artwork. We had more numismatic specialty groups meeting there than at any other time that I can recall.” “But what I remember most about that convention was when Earl Salterio, Chairman of the CNA Awards Committee at the time, announced the first of the ‘Fellow of the CNA’ awards and it turned out to be me, followed immediately by the announcement of the Chairman of the Ferguson Foundation, Sheldon S. Carroll, of the highest numismatic award in Canadian numismatics and it again turned out to be me. “Here I stood at the podium announcing my retirement from numismatics. I even had a wooden nickel struck saying so. And they showered me with all the C.N.A.’s top awards,” John stated. “Maybe they appreciated me retiring,” he quips. So what has happened since his retirement from numismatics in 1991? “I have spent more time on my hobby than I did back then. I edited a 48-page bulletin for the Ontario Numismatic Association where you wind up writing a lot of the information yourself that you cull from 30-odd monthly local club bulletins and other sources.” He was also appointed Chairman of the Club Services Committee for both the C.N.A. and the ONA. He did give up the Toronto International Coin Fair some time ago. “I ran TICF for the fun of it. When I felt I could devote my time towards other projects, including running my computer supplies business, I turned over the registered name and initials to Paul Fiocca of Trajan Publications, owners of Canadian Coin News, who changed the initials TICF to The International Coin Fair and continued to run the show, first in Niagara Falls and finally in its current location in St. Catharines.” Following stint as Executive Secretary of the C.N.A. until May 2006 and General Chairman of the 2006 C.N.A. Convention, what is he up to? He currently holds the positions of General Chairman of the 2007 C.N.A. Convention, C.N.A. Liaison to the Royal Canadian Mint and C.N.A. Liaison to future C.N.A. Convention Committees. But his most time-consuming activity is as Editor of the C.N.A. E-Bulletin, currently published every Tuesday and Friday, which he expects to reduce to once a week starting in May. If you are not currently a subscriber to the complimentary E-Bulletin and wish to be added, drop a note to cnanews@look.ca. ***************************************************** Championship Question Corner Question 190. Difficuly 3. The Ananda Temple at Pagan appears on which general issue of Japanese Invasion Money? Yesterdays Question 189. Difficuly 3. Where (in what country) were the notes for the Chinese Hau Hsing Commercial Bank printed? Answers and comments: Bill Myers correctly answered that the notes were printed in Japan. ========================================== Editorial ========================================== There has been a little confusion about the Fest lottery tickets. First, thank you to everyone who has ordered tickets (more remain, hint, hint). The confusion is that if you are a Fester, you can wait till you get here to order/buy your tickets. I do not see any advantage to odering them ahead except of course for the case of a sell out, but I am sure that Ed will make sure that that does not happen. The bourse if the first event and it is looking like a great event. As I said yesterday (I think). You can come to the bourse even if you are not gong to attend the Fest. ========================================= Mail Call (send mail to MPCGram@yahoo.com) =========================================== Dear Editor, If I may be very commercial, I just listed a batch of 1944 issues of Motor Age magazine on ebay. One of special interest to gramsters may be lot number 130092281518 which has a cover photo of a GI holding a large picture of a $100 series E war bond. Too see my other issues, with lots of war ads and war theme covers, check "gibbsenterprizes" on ebay. Thanks if you can show this. Have a good fest. I will make make one of those someday. Larry Gibbs Dear Larry, We cannot allow such a commercial letter. Sorry. Editor =========================================== Calendar =========================================== 2007 MPCFest: March 23-25 2007 details TBA. 14 and 15 April 2007 The annual "Maastricht" show, officially named "PaperMoney Fair-Maastricht" will take place, with dealer set up on the 13th, at the "Polfermolen" in Valkenburg, Netherlands. For details, view the bourse web site http:// www.papermoney-maastricht.org/  or contact the show organizer, Joe Eijsermans, at apnc.eijsermans@wxs.nl or eijsermans-events@planet.nl. 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