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Bi-Metallic Collectors Club Newsmail # 710 |
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WBCC
Newsmail 710 Volume 16, March 20, 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 Dear WBCC members and non WBCC members, 1. WBCC For Sale pages...by Rod Sell, WBCC
Webmaster, Australia
We have a "For Sale" page where members can list up to 10
items. Just email me the details of the items you want to list, with
your price and a scan of the item.
The items listed can be viewed at: http://wbcc-online.com/sales/sales.html We have recently had some Korean Bi-metallics listed. The Italian Mint will issue im March a Bi-metallic 2 Euro
2010 commemotare Count Cavour in a anual BU set 2010. 17.000
copies will be sold
3. My Bi-metallic Webpage...by Jose Luis Ramirez,
Spain
My webpage
have a new address: www.monedas-bimetalicas.com
in Spanish language (some pages in English)
I have got these coins from Joel Anderson. I take photos to
the coins to share with the WBCC members
5. Bi-metallic Fansaty Euro's from Vaticane
City ......by Jose Luis Ramirez, Spain
Image from the fantasy coins dated 2008. The coins are from
the series named Specimen
6. Bi-metallics from Montenegro.......by Jose
Luis Ramirez, Spain
I have got this Bi-metallic from Montenegro. The coin shows
the Mala Rijeka Bridge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mala_Rijeka_viaduct
7. Bi-metallics Fantay Euro's ......by Jose
Luis Ramirez, Spain
These images are from a 2 Euro Fantasy coins. First one show
the Original Shin, from the Sistine Chapel ceiling, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_Chapel_ceiling
Second one shows the Making of the Sun and the Moon, from
the same picture from Michelangello
The third coin is only a design taken from this Ebay auction
This design is for the Holy Year 2010, look at this
Wikipedia article (german, I can`t found the english version). This
celebration are in the City of Santiago de Compostela, in the north of
Spain. Official webpage in
8. Bi-metallic from Gibraltar....by Martin Peeters,
The Netherlands
Saw in Ebay a Bi-metallic
Token from Gibraltar you don't see often:
Gibraltar 1967 Proof Crown Coin Encased Spink London 9. Bi-metallic medals from Vatican
City....by Jose Luis Ramirez, Spain
I have obtained these bimetallic medal from Vatican
City. The medals are from a set named Dutch Popes.
10. Bi-metallic Trade Token from the USA....by Martin Peeters, The Netherlands Saw in Ebay a Trade Token from USA you don't see often: http://cgi.ebay.com:80/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170460571131&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123 GOOD FOR TOKEN 5¢ BI-METALLIC WILLIAM COVENTRY
12. Bi-metallic Personal Tokens from the USA....by Martin Peeters, The Netherlands Saw in Ebay 2 Personal tokens from USA you don't see often: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=390171637104&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123 BI-METALLIC PERSONNEL TOKEN NUMISMATIST JAMES WILLISTON
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320503962258&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123 BI-METALLIC
PERSONNEL TOKEN NUMISMATIST JAMES WILLISTON
13. Bi-metallic Quiz Game
#710...........by Jack Hepler, USA
This week continues the quiz series called, "Whose Face".
Whose face appears on the 1997 Australian Bi-metallic Five Dollars? Queen Elizabeth II is also on this coin but that is not the answer I want. 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 #709 Whose face appears on the 2000 Mexican Bi-metallic 20 Pesos? The correct answer to Bi-metallic Quiz Game question #709 is Octavio Paz. 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 #708 prize winner is Gaurav Singh, member #490. There were nine players. 14. WBCC Super Quiz #13...by Jack Hepler, USA Switzerland issued three beautiful Bi-metallic
10 Francs coins that featured three of the highest mountains in the
Alps. The mountains so honored were The Matterhorn Cervin,
Jungfrau, and Piz Bernina. What is the sum of the heights of
these three mountains?
Answer to WBCC Super Quiz #12 The cross and crosslets of Llantrisant is the mintmark appearing on the Bi-metallic coins of which country? In which year did this mintmark first appear on a coin of this country? The correct answers are The United Kingdom and 1983. The winner will be announced next week. Here is a picture of WBCC member Mike Hill
winner of the 10th Super Quiz and his certificate.
15. New Bi-, Tri-, or Tetra-metallic images...by Rod
Sell, WBCC Webmaster
The
new Bi-, Tri-, or Tetra-metallic images shown at:
http://wbcc-online.com/new-releases/new-images.html * Private tokens from James Williston
* Italy 2010 2e * Popes from the region now called the Netherlands 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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