| Class 2 — United States fiscal paper |
| All paper money and bonds issued by the United States government,
including military currency;
pre-U.S. colonial, Continental, and Confederate paper money and bonds;
state and private banknotes and bonds;
scrip; college currency; and stock certificates.
Essays, proofs, and souvenir cards of such items may also be shown. |
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The 1918 Two Dollar Battleship Note
Reader will learn the history of the Two Dollar note.
What the symbols, letters, and numbers on the note stand for,
and who engraved the note.
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“Where is that bank?”
The story of how an 1895 directive from a treasury official,
written to help citizens find the location of certain national
banks, created a minor design addition to some series 1902
national bank notes.
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Selected Michigan Nationals from Charter 8723
The purpose of this exhibit is two fold: to briefly describe
what nationals are and to describe the history of the Vassar
National Bank of Vassar, Michigan and the history of the
Millington National Bank of Millington, Michigan.
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A Selection of Series 1929 Federal Reserve and National Banknotes
Banknotes mainly from Western Pennsylvania.
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| Class 3 — Medals, orders, decorations and badges |
| Medallic items not used as a medium of exchange, or not having trade value.
Includes orders and decorations, convention badges, and badges issued by fraternal orders or other organizations.
Excluded are Masonic pennies and tokens included in classes 5-8. |
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A Short Story of a Portrait Medal
The exhibit discusses the story behind the 1922 bronze medal depicting
the portrait of Jean-Francois Champollion by the French medalist
Paul-Marcel Dammann.
This large bronze medal commemorates the centennial of Champollion’s
scientific paper in which he first deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphics in
1822.
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They Also Ran – Select 19th Century Political Medals of Defeated Presidental Candidates
The exhibit aims to highlight and honor the largely forgotten men
who were defeated for the presidency in the popular elections of
the 19th century.
In so doing, the exhibit also recalls a bygone era, preceding
campaign buttons, when political medals were a principal means
of campaign advertising for the presidential candidates and
political parties of that time.
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Medals of the United States Assay Commission 1860-1977
Shown in this exhibit are examples of U.S. Assay Commission
medals for all years issued between 1860 and 1977.
Struck and awarded primarily to members serving on the
commission, these medals were produced in small quantities,
typically 50 or less.
Also shown are rare off-metal strikings and die trials.
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| Class 4 — Modern coins and medals |
| Coins and medallic (non-denominated) material issued 1960 and later,
including philatelic numismatic covers. |
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Chaim Gross’ Ten Commandments Sculpture
The Ten Commandments have been a popular theme in art and numismatics
for centuries.
An unusal set of sculptures that interprets the commandments visually
was designed by Chaim Gross.
This exhibit contains two versions of these sculptures as well as a
large lithograph.
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The New Look of Marvel Superheroes on Coins
Marvel’s superhero Thor needed a makeover.
He was pretty uncool in the original comic books.
In the past few years, the Marvel Universe movies
re-invented Iron Man, Captain America, Black Panther,
Thor, and Spiderman for a younger audience.
The purpose of this exhibit is to show the artistry
of the newly released silver coins and compare them
to how the heroes looked in original print.
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| Class 6 — Casino chips and gaming tokens |
| Items of all types and materials used as gaming pieces,
including traditional and non-traditional tokens and other money substitutes
and including tokens used in military clubs. |
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Title and Theme/Purpose |
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A Study of Selected Slot Machine Tokens Used in Atlantic City, New Jersey Casinos from 1978-2005
This exhibit displays slot machine tokens, ranging in value
from 10 cents to $25.00, that were used in Atlantic City
Casinos from 1978-2005.
Included in the exhibit are examples of all regular issue
tokens listed by casino, denomination, and rate of issue.
Also shown are selected trial strikes, errors, modified
tokens, etc.
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| Class 8 — Elongated coins |
| Souvenirs created using an elongating machine,
whether the underlying piece is a coin, token, medal or blank planchet. |
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Feline Elongated Type Set
Elongated coins sport myriads of different designs.
Zoos and wildlife parks frequently sell elongateds with wildlife
themes as inexpensive souvenirs.
This exhibit shows more than two dozen such elongateds portraying
felines.
It shows one of each identifiable species, subspecies, and genetic
variations, explaining the feline portrayed as well as exploring
the history of the issuer as it relates to felines, and descibing
the coin itself.
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Meet the Rollers: Makers of Coins Any Way They Like Them
This exhibit will introduce visitors to the talented,
unseen individuals, past and present, who turned any
idea they imagined for a coin into reality.
Holidays, greetings, politics, celebrations, destinations
– they came, they saw, they rolled them!
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The Making of Elongated Coins
Elongated coins are made by forcing a coin, token,
or planchet between two steel dies.
The image engraved on the die is transferred to the
host piece under extreme pressure, stretching it into
an oval (elongated) shape.
Most of us recognize the end state, but what do we
know about the process?
This exhibit walks the viewer through the three distinct
phases of creating elongated coins: Designs, Engraving,
and Rolling.
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Going to Hell (Michigan that is): An Elongated Adventure
A road trip through Michigan routed through the community
of Hell, where a set of elongated cents was rolled.
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| Class 9 — Coins issued prior to 1500 A.D. |
| Coins, including gold,
issued by any government before 1500 A.D. |
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Remember the Ladies – The Empresses of Rome’s Severan Dynasty, 193-235
The five Emperors of the Roman Empire’s Severan Dynasty
are generally well-known, but most of the nine Empresses seem
to be hidden in the shadows of history.
The Emperors were indeed a colorful lot: they included one
military genius, one a murderous psychopath,one man murdered
by his own brother (the murderous psychopath), one male prostitute,
and a general murdered by his own troops.
But the Severan Dynasty would never have lasted as long as it did,
if not for the Empresses who struggled so (wo)manfully to keep the
Roman ship of state on course, in spite of the Emperors who often
seemed hell-bent on crashing onto the rocks.
Let us Remember the Ladies.
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| Class 10 — Regional U.S. numismatics |
| Numismatic material of any type
specific to a particular region of the United States, such as the locale where the exhibit is being presented. |
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Assayed at the Mint – 200 years ago in a building not far, far away…
An attempt to reconstruct the group of world silver coins
assayed at the Mint, as detailed in the report by Joseph
Richardson dated December 27, 1818.
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The Birth of U.S. Nickel Coinage – A Local Story
The exhibit looks at the local history of U.S. production
of malleable nickel that made the production of the 3-cent
nickel and 5-cent nickel pieces possible.
The exhibit will consider the Lancaster County, PA mines,
and the Camden, NJ foundry that first produced the metal
for our cupro-nickel coins and Joseph Wharton’s role
in it.
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| Class 11 — Numismatics of the Americas |
| Numismatic material of any type issued, used in, or related to
the Western Hemisphere outside the United States. |
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| 17 |
5 |
Cuban History in the 20th & 21st Centuries Through Numismatics
This exhibit represents my collection of Cuban Numismatics
and Exonumia to tell a story of Cuban history in the modern
age.
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Guatemala 1895 – 1915 5 Pesos Regular & Specimen Issues
Regular and proof issue 5 peso notes are exhibited along
with a die proof vignette of the face of the note.
The history of Guatemala, its flag, and map are also displayed.
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Medalic, coinage, and paper money issues of Mexico’s First Empire under Agustin Iturbide 1822-1823 and their ties to Central America
Show a representative display of Iturbide issues for
the period 1822-1823 including key rarities.
Show often overlooked ties of the Iturbide issues to
Central America.
Provide little known historical information pertaining
to all these issues.
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2 |
Panama Currency in the Period of the French Canal Development
Early history of currency evolution for the Country
to become Panama.
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Newfoundland Coin Trench Art
Many American soldiers, sailors, and airmen passed through
Newfoundland during World War II.
A few trench art coins are testimony to these travels.
|
| Class 12 — Numismatics of Europe |
| Numismatic material of any type issued, used in, or related to
Europe, including Russia east to the Urals. |
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2 |
Presidential Gold Set
Reflecting the Centennial recollection of establishment
of a new country in Central Europe formed by three
nationalities (Czech, Moravian, and Slovaks) and
production of a set of four gold coins non legal tender
by law as such presented to the first US Ambasador to
the newly established country Czechoslovakia by the
returning first president of Czechoslovakia to his
life long family.
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Introduction to the 19th Century United Kingdom Penny
Queen Victoria reigned for 63 years over one of the
greatest empires.
Her image appears on many denominations of coins
including pennies from 1839 to 1901.
The purpose of this exhibit is to give an introduction
to the history of the Queen’s reign and its
reflection in the coinage of pennies.
The relatively large size of Victorian era pennies
makes them ideal for displaying and highlighting the
artistry and symbolism of the coin.
The exhibit will briefly identify and discuss the
meaning of the images on the penny.
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| Class 13 — Numismatics of Africa and the Middle East |
| Numismatic material of any type issued, used in, or related to
the continent of Africa or the Middle East
(from Turkey east through Iran and south to Aden). |
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The Roaring Lion of Megiddo
Few animals have so captured the human imagination as the lion,
and the Jews were no exception to the rule.
Lions have symbolized the tribe of Judah and the jewish people
since ancient times, but they only appeared on money and medals
under the modern State of Israel.
This exhibit focuses on the only lion design to appear on a
circulating coin, the roaring lion of Megiddo, based on an
ancient seal uncovered in 1904.
It also includes private issues portraying either the seal or
the lion figure.
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Coinage of the German Colonies
This exhibit contains a type collection of German colonial
coinage that is mostly complete.
These pieces reflect imperial Germany’s efforts to
create an overseas Empine that would rival that of any of
the other major European countries.
Germany lost all of her colonies as a result of World War I
– a war during which serious fighting occurred in some
of them.
The exhibitor’s intent with this display is to provide
an explanation of the coins and to show how important historical
events are reflected in them.
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A Middle East Tribute to Apollo – Fujairah and Yemen’s Coins Honoring America’s Space Program
How the Apollo Moon landing and missions captivated the
world and inspired two Middle East nations to issue
commemorative coins celebrating America’s space
Program.
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| Class 14 — Numismatics of Asia and the Pacific |
| Numismatic material of any type issued, used in, or related to
Asia east of the Urals and Iran,
and in the southeast Asian, Australasian, and Pacific islands.
Excluded is Hawaii under the United States. |
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Expo ’70 Fair in Osaka, Japan: Progress and Harmony for Mankind
This exhibit describes the historical significance of Asia’s
first world’s fair, Expo ’70 in Osaka, Japan, and shows
and describes a variety of artifacts from the fair or commemorating
the fair.
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Coinage of the Ideal Indian Princely State – Travancore
The Kingdom of Travancore was from 1729 to 1947.
As its zenith, it covered most of the modern-day central
and southern Kerala along with Kanyakumari District.
In the early 19th century, it became a princely state
under the British Empire.
This exhibit attempts to bring out the rich and varied
numismatic heritage of this model state of which some
are absolutely unique in the entire world!
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| Class 17 — Numismatic literature |
| Printed and manuscript (published or unpublished)
literature dealing with any numismatic subject. |
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7 |
Buy the Book for the Coins
The first and best advice most coin collectors receive is
“Buy the book before the coin.”
But why stop with just “the” book?
After all, no single book can provide all of the information
and insights about a coin that a dedicated collector wants or needs.
Let’s see how a single coin – in this case, a gold
solidus struck by the Byzantine emperor Theophilos – could
trigger a collector’s bibliomania.
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Publications By Charles J. Steigerwalt
Some history about Charles J. Steigerwalt and his work in coin
publications will be shown.
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Special Medals for U.S. Government Agencies
The purpose of this exhibit is to debut an unpublished
literary work that provides an introduction to the not
well known third manufacturing function of the U.S. Mint
that produces special medals for U.S. Government agencies.
The manufacture of these special medals required no
authorization from U.S. federal legislation.
Currently, four known U.S. Government agencies have been
identified as having their own special medal series.
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| Class 18 — General, specialized and topical |
| Numismatic material not covered in other classes
or covered by more than one class (but see rule 20.B).
Includes wooden money,
political buttons and insignia, and other exonumia,
as well as media of exchange used in carrying out purchases and business transactions
by primitive people and later by others as they progressed from barter to coins,
or other items generally accepted as primitive or odd and curious currencies.
Also includes exhibits showing material linked by design,
such as elephants or bridges,
or by theme, such as a world’s fair. |
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Watch Your Head! Helmets From the Iron Age to the Space Age
From the earliest recorded history to the present, people have
worn helmets to protect their heads.
One sign of the importance we place on helmets is that we have
displayed them on coins almost as long as there have been coins
on which to display them.
This exhibit presents a numismatic gallery of helmets, beginning
with the bronze war helmets shown on early coins, then progessing
through 25 centries of developments in helmet design and technolgy,
and ending with the modern plastic helmets worn by astronauts.
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4 |
Sealing the Deal: E Pluribus Unum
On July 4, 1776 America’s thirteen separate states
united to form an independent nation.
That same day the Continental Congress agreed to create
a national emblem or Great Seal of the United States.
The Latin phrase “E pluribus unum” or
“Out of Many, One” was included on the Great
Seal as a unifying motto connecting the people and cultures
of the original states.
This exhibit details the artistic symbolism and design of
the Great Seal of the United States and explores the first
American motto still included on coins and currency today.
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Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and His Influence on Numismatics
Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency represented a
turning point in the quality of United States coinage.
He had great appreciation for beauty, and the coinage
of the United States struck him by the lack of it.
Roosevelt wrote, “I think our coinage is artistically
of atrocious hideousness.”
His desires led to the transformation of several key
denominations under his purview and inspired future
engravers to produce more appealing designs on US coinage.
His life’s extraordinary feats inspired a myriad
of numismatic items.
One can find his image on fire company medals, police
marksmanship awards, town commemoratives, military
challenge coins, national commemoratives, and coins
throughout the world.
His story continues to encourage people to pursue a more
passionate and courageous life.
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Treasures of the Sea
To show the Treasures of the Sea through original art
and coins depicting birds, ships, fish, and, of course,
sunken treasures.
The coins will be described.
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The World in Flight: Aviation History 1903-1975
This exhibit explores aviation history from the Wright
brothers to the Apollo Space Program through selected
medals, US and foreign coins, and tokens.
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Numismatic Prelude to the Thirteenth Amendment
The scope of this exhibit is a selection of British
and American exonumia issued prior to 1865.
These medals and tokens document the British colonization
of freed slaves, the ending of the slave trade and abolishment
of slavery.
The United States followed its mother country in each of these
actions utilizing similar symbols, tokens, and medals.
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Marquee Exhibits were invited to display here;
this section also includes exhibits produced from items in the ANA Museum.
These exhibits are not eligible for the People’s Choice Award.
