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Minutes of the 1024th Meeting

President Mark Wieclaw called the 1024th meeting of the Chicago Coin Club to order on April 14, 2004 at 7:00PM. The meeting was held at the office of Harlan J. Berk.

The minutes for January, February, and March were approved.

There were no guests present.

First Vice-President Bob Feiler talked about upcoming programs.

First Vice-President Bob Feiler introduced the speaker for the evening Andy Plioplys. The topic was The Early Coinage of Lithuania 1100-1400 AD.

First Vice-President Bob Feiler thanked Mr. Plioplys for his lecture and presented him with the CCC speaker's medal and an ANA educational award.

There were seven participants in the evening's show and tell. They presented as follows:

• Carl Wolf - ANA Presidential Award featuring a replica of the $2 educational note, a letter with ATSF notes on the letterhead, CD world history atlas.
• Chuck Jacobs - 2 tokens from the Royal Thai Mint, Patterns, test strikes, and errors of the same issue, 50 baht from Thailand and several different test strikes of the same coin.
• Don Dool - 35th anniversary medal, a membership medal and pin from the Centro Numismatico Buenos Aires, stock certificates from Argentina.
• Mark Weiclaw - Several Roman coins
• John Connolly - Several Eisenhower dollars with doubling
• Sharon Blocker - Mint set from Aruba, Pattern set from the UK, 5 peso note from the Philippines, and some notes from Sierra Leone.
• Robert Leonard - Mameluke coins in copper, silver, and gold.

Old Business:
Carl called the Cultural Center about a meeting room but they did not return his call. Saul Needleman will check with Roosevelt University about a room.

Bob Leonard has completed the write up for the bamboo money. Bob Feiler showed the banquet give away - an encased postage stamp.

Speaker needed for The Mid-America Show. Bob Leonard suggested trying to get someone to discuss Hard Times Tokens or Civil War Tokens.

New Business:
Archivist Phil Carrigan was given copy #1 of the CPMX give away. Decision made not to order more scales at this time.

General Discussion:
Mark Weiclaw showed a 20th anniversary encased stamp of the Chicago Numismatic Roundtable.

Meeting adjourned at 9:10 PM

Respectfully submitted by Bob Weinstein

Minutes of the 1025th Meeting

President Mark Wieclaw called the 1025th meeting of the Chicago Coin Club to order on May 12, 2004 at 7:00PM. The meeting was held at the office of Harlan J. Berk.

The minutes for April were not delivered in time for publication.

Treasurers report:

There was one guest present, Robert J. Greenstein.

First Vice-President Bob Feiler talked about upcoming programs.

First Vice-President Bob Feiler introduced the speaker for the evening Robert J. Greenstein. The topic was Coins of the Palestinian Mandate, 1927-1947.

First Vice-President Bob Feiler thanked Mr. Greenstein for his lecture and presented him with the CCC speaker's medal and an ANA educational award.

There were five participants in the evening's show and tell. They presented as follows:

• Chuck Jacobs - Chinese coins
• Bob Feiler - Pop out of an Eisenhower dollar, Venetian silver tornasello, Seleucid Tetradrachm.
• Don Dool - San Martin medals from places other than Argentina.
• Sharon Blocker - Bermuda coins featuring Gombey dancers.
• Mark Wieclaw - Platinum bullion coin, some silver bars, some Roman coins.

Old Business:
Lyle Daly has checked several sites. He has nothing firm as yet. John Connolly said he would check with a camera club to which he belonged to find out about renting a room from them.

The 85th anniversary banquet had 58 attendees.

Bamboo money from CICF is available for $5. Encased postage from the anniversary banquet is available for $5. Mark Wieclaw also has 85 cent good for tokens which he produced personally for the anniversary.

The club received a congratulatory certificate from the ANA presented by John Wilson at the banquet.

New Business:
Mid America speaker is TBA

There is one CCC magnifier left. No more will be ordered for now. Scales are sold out.

Meeting adjourned at 9:00 PM

Respectfully submitted by Bob Weinstein

Minutes of the 1026th Meeting

President Mark Wieclaw called the 1026th meeting of the Chicago Coin Club to order on June 9, 2004 at 7:00PM. The meeting was held at the office of Harlan J. Berk.

The minutes for May were not delivered in time to be published.

Treasurers Report:

There was one guest present, Elliott Krieter.

First Vice-President Bob Feiler talked about upcoming programs.

First Vice-President Bob Feiler introduced the speaker for the evening William Bierly. The topic was US Pattern Coins.

First Vice-President Bob Feiler thanked Mr. Bierly for his lecture and presented him with the CCC speaker's medal and an ANA educational award.

There were six participants in the evening's show and tell. They presented as follows:

• Bob Feiler - Lewis and Clark bicentennial items.
• Mark Wieclaw - Proof set with Lewis and Clark coins, a denarius' brockage of Vespasian, an antoninianus of Diadumenian, a solidus of Justinian II.
• Sharon Blocker - Railroad medals, $10 coin from The British Virgin Islands with a hologram.
• Don Dool - Several Spanish coins, an old brothel token from Argentina.
• Bob Leonard - Several modern coins picturing primitive money types and actual examples of those types.
• Phil Carrigan - Catalog for the auction of the John Ford Library.

Old Business:
Archivist Phil Carrigan received from President Mark Wieclaw the ANA congratulatory certificate from the 85th anniversary.

Carl Wolf has found a room at the Chicago Bar Association for $90/ month. Mark Wieclaw is checking on a room in the building where we are currently meeting.

Carl Wolf announced that the speaker for the Mid-America Show will be Q. David Bowers. Carl also let us know that more scales were available.

Sharon Blocker is checking into locations for the annual banquet.

Bob Leonard asked for suggestions on how best to dispose of the remaining tally sticks from the CICF give away. Some are damaged and some were of a different type than those used for the project. Possibilities discussed were selling them at the club auction or selling them on eBay.

New Business:
There was an additional cost on our bill for the 85th anniversary banquet for which Carl Wolf paid. Motion passed to reimburse Carl for the expense.

First Reading:
Elliott Krieter

General Discussion:
The topic of privacy was under discussion again. Mark Wieclaw received a phone call from an unknown person trying to sell him coins. The internet has made it easier to find out personal information about people. Mark also related how he was contacted by a snuff bottle collector who got his information from the local library where Mark had a display of his collection of bottles.

Meeting recessed at 9:30 PM

Respectfully submitted by Bob Weinstein

Regional Archives: Great Lakes Region of the National Archives and Records Administration

What does it include:

• Part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the Federal agency that, by law, preserves and provides access to permanently valuable, non-current Federal records with historical, legal or fiscal value.
• One of 14 NARA facilities where the public has access to Federal archival records.
• A depository and center for research in historical records from Federal agencies and courts in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.
• A center for genealogical research.
• A sponsor of programs that educate the public about archives, history, genealogy and related subjects.
• A partner with colleges and universities, historical and genealogical societies, museums and other archives.
• A host for student interns, and school and other groups that want to learn more about archives.
• A national resource in a local setting.

They have:

• More than 72,000 cubic feet of historical records dating from 1800 to the 1990s, among them photographs, maps and architectural drawings, created or received by nearly 100 Federal agencies, including Federal courts.

They serve:

• Anyone who needs historical information created or received by the Federal Government: historians, genealogists, lawyers, scholars, Government officials, environmentalists and others.

Their records are:

• Diverse in content, covering the Great Lakes and inland waterways, agriculture, African Americans and Native Americans, the environment, immigration and naturalization, inventions and technology, railroads, the automotive industry, the labor movement, organized crime, the military, domestic conditions during World Wars I and II, sedition and treason, nuclear research and many other subjects.
• Filled with historical names, among them Abraham Lincoln, Vice President Aaron Burr, black nationalist Marcus Garvey, gangster Al Capone, playwright Lorraine Hansberry and physicist Enrico Fermi.
• Unique evidence of the impact of Federal policies and programs in the Great Lakes region.

If you plan to do research in original records:

• Call before visiting to assure that records are available 773-581-7816.
• Bring identification such as a driver's license, passport, or student ID so they can issue you a researcher's card.
• Plan on leaving your personal belongings in a locker. Laptop computers are permitted.

The microfilm holdings include:

• Of genealogical interest: Federal population censuses for all States, 1790-1930 (1930 census available April 2002); some pre-1900 military service and pension records, and bounty land warrant applications; selected passenger arrival records and indexes for vessels arriving at various U.S. ports; a naturalization index for parts of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin; and Indian censuses for Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
• Of general historical interest: Territorial papers; the Mathew Brady Collection of Civil War photographs; German records captured at the end of World War II; records of U.S. diplomatic missions, the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the Government's administration of Indian affairs, and the U.S. Supreme Court; records documenting the unexplained loss of Air Force flight #19 in the Bermuda Triangle, 1945; and documentation of the Axis Powers' looting of assets, 1933-45.

If you plan to do microfilm or genealogy research:

• Call ahead to reserve a microfilm reader: 773-581-7816.
• Expect to use their self-service microfilm research room with the aid of volunteers and staff.
• Because research is time-consuming, you may need to visit more than once.

They welcome inquiries:

• Address: NARA's Great Lakes Region, 7358 South Pulaski Road, Chicago, IL 60629-5898
• E-mail: chicago.archives@nara.gov
• Telephone: 773-581-7816 Fax: 312-353-1294
• Hours: weekdays 8 am - 4:15 pm (call first for changes)
• Closed weekends and Federal holidays
• NARA home page www.archives.gov

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