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Bi-Metallic Collectors Club Newsmail # 731 |
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WBCC
Newsmail 731 Volume 16, August 14, 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
731, 732 and 733, August 14, 21 and 28 will be composed and sent out by
Jack
Hepler, USA. ED. Martin
just sent a message indicating that
he was having some difficulties getting his new mobile home and server
to be
compatible. He has asked me to prepare
Newsmail 733 in addition to the ones previously announced. Please notice
Martin's new E-mail address starting August 1: 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 three weeks by going
to the
WBCC Website: http://wbcc-online.com.
(By permission) On the obverse side, the
Bi-metallic 2 Euro coin depicts Voluptas, a
detail of one of three dancing Graces, liberally inspired by the
painting,
La
Primavera by Sandro Botticelli, which hangs in the Uffizi Gallery in
Florence. The coin is completed by
the caption "SAN MARINO", the year
2010, the symbol, "m" of the artist, Roberto Mauri, and the symbol
"R" of the Italian Mint which was responsible for the coinage. On the reverse of the coin is the common
side used for all the European countries. Issue date: 7 September
2010 Edge:
finely milled with
incision (alternate of stars and pairs of the number 2 both upright and
upside
down) Maximum mintage: 130,000
sets ED The
image of this coin may also be viewed at
the WBCC Website; http://wbcc-online.com
This week continues the
quiz series called, "Whose Face". Whose face
appears on the 2010 Bi-metallic 10 Dollars of
Namibia? 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 #730 Whose face
appears on the 2007 Bi-metallic 200 Pesos of
Easter Island? A hammerhead shark
appears on the reverse of this coin. The correct answer to Bi-metallic Quiz Game
question #730 is Makemake. 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 #729 prize winner was Barry Murray, WBCC
member #411. 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) The July Super
Quiz winner was John Veltmeyer, WBCC member #87.
The new Bi-,
Tri-, or Tetra-metallic images are shown at: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "See you" next week, Jack Hepler, for: Martin Peeters, Focal Point of
the Worldwide Bi-metallic Collectors Club
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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