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 Saturday, June 30, 2007
ANA Summer Seminar week one over, week two about to start!
Posted by george
The 39th Annual Americn Numismatic Assocaiation Summer Seminar is in full force. Week one participants have enjoyed a week of learning on a variety of numismatic topics as diverse as Roman Republican coins, Hammered coins of England, and the clas I was involved with - Coins of World, 1500-present, to those of US Currency, Counterfeit banknotes, and intaglio engraving.
Chris Madden of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing was the teacher of the intaglio class. It is offered as a two year scholarship program, and this was the second year in the cycle. His six students displayed their work before the closing banquet.
Two favorite events during the week are a duplicate sale from the library, which for the first week raised over $2,500 dollars, and the donation auction for the YN scholarship fund which took in over $13,000 on 250 or so lots. (The YN's learn the auction business, but accepting, inventoring the material, then writing the descriptions, printing and distributing the catalog, all on a very tight schedule.)
As week two starts off, Friday - Sunday is a 100+ dealer coin show which many of the participants take an extra day in their travel schedule to attend.
Classes this week include Building an award winning educational display, US Paper Money, the milled coins of England, coin photography, and of course the ever popular coin grading classes. I am here this second week as a first year participant in the two-year Gilroy Roberts Fellowship program for engraving. It starts off with a gallery art show of items from the six participants on Sunday Night with a wine and cheese reception.
It is truely a who's who of the hobby, with a bunch of past and current ANA officials in attendance, and access to many of the Association's staff.
Yes, there is plenty of after hours discussions about the ANA election and the recommended changes to the by laws, and how that will affect the "membership" participation in their organization. Much of that is discussed at a social gathering not to be found on any schedule, but open to all, with the outdoor after dinner and evening classes meeting of the Luna Cafe society in the commons area overlooking the soccer field, with a fine vew of sunsets (or impending thunder clouds) over Pike Peak.
More as the week progresses.
George
6/30/2007 12:16:29 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00) 
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Monday, June 25, 2007
ANA Summer Seminar, day one report
Posted by george
Greetings,
About 200 eager ANA members have gathered in Colorado Springs this week for the 39th Annual Summer Seminar. This is a program where volunteer instructors from all over the country have gathered to teach courses on coin grading, US paper money, ancient coins, coin photography or intaglio engraving.
Emmett McDonald of Long Island, NY, and I are co-teaching 11 students of varied ages and backgrounds a survey class on world coins.
I had a great three-day drive from central Wisconsin, mostly traveling on routs 35, 70 and 76, but I did get off to do some blue line touring on old state roads mostly 6 in Nebraska, and 71/24 in Colorado.
On the good side was a memorable breakfast at Gary Nebraska, and sadly the worst stop was just a few more miles down the road at the saddest BP station on the tour.
More about the class and other classes during the next two weeks.
George Cuhaj
6/25/2007 11:21:57 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Monday, June 18, 2007
A vist to Central High School
Posted by george
In early June I had the pleasure to accept an invitation of the Central Arkansas Coin Club to speak at a special meeting of the club. As it was my first visit to the city, I asked to make a long weekend out of it.
A very pleasurable three days was spent with Tom Dodson out and about town.
High School has been on my mind a bit this spring. April was my 30th reunion of the class of ’77 from Brooklyn Technical High School. I was the coin club vice president while a student, and I am now the Alumni Foundation’s archivist. It was a great school experience for me, and still is a fine NYC Public High School.
So, with the recent congressional gold medal for the “Little Rock Nine” and this year’s silver dollar commemorative, I asked Tom to include a visit to the Central High National Historic Site – it turned out to be Tom’s alma mater. It is a Most impressive building, and as school was still in session, active with student life. The NPS has restored a nearby Mobil Station to serve as the interpretative center, and is constructing an even larger facility across the street.
I’ve given some thought to other sites depicted on coins that I have visited – the list continues to grow, and that is a nice subtle way to tie our hobby into other interests. As a scout I got to visit the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, Lexington and Concord, Independence Hall, Mount Vernon, Monticello, West Point,Jamestown, the DC sites of the Capitol, White House, Vietnam Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, the Smithsonian, Civil War battlefields of Gettysburg and Antietam. If you include the circulating 50-state quarter program, I have even been over the New River Gorge Bridge. Now only if I can find a way to get me to Diamondhead.
So there are many ways to include numismatics in trips!
George Čuhaj
6/18/2007 4:41:36 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007
New Modern World Paper Money edition released !
Posted by george
The Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, Modern Issues, 1960-date is now available in a 13th Edition from Krause Publications. That has been my winter project at the office from December thru March. It is always nice to have a product back from the printer.
Continuing in the familiar large 8-1/2 x 11 size format, this edition totals 1032 pages of modern world bank note listings, 32 pages of helpful information on collector terms, advertisements and historical information and an eight-page color section. 
This is the 13th edition of the Modern Book that I have been involved with. We once again rely on correspondence and submissions from over 80 worldwide experts for price updates and new issue reports. Signature varieties, replacement note and specimen listings continue to be expanded.
For those who have been concerned and following the editor’s three-year-long trial and tribulation about image quality, Cuhaj is pleased to report that this edition is the first of the paper money volumes to be produced entirely in a digital format, thus all images have been electronically re-processed, enhancing their quality over past editions which were produced by the old format of screened half-tone veloxes.
This digital endeavor will continue into future volumes of the Standard Catalog of World Paper Money series – Volume 1, Specialized Issues and Volume 2, General Issues – in addition to the online version of all the world paper money catalogs soon to be available at Numismaster.com.
What this all means is that to move the product - all three paper money products, our KP image library has had to be inspected, photos sized and given computer ID numbers, so that they will appear along with the data base test (which also had to be re-edited), and flowed into the computer image publishing program. This book went directly from computer to printing plate. A hugh advancement in book prodcution technology from what we did last year, when we spent over 200 hours of staff time transfering velox images onto the new past-up page for the book.
The book is available from the publisher direct, or major hobby distributors. Krause Publications, 700 East State St. Iola, WI 54990 USA. 1-800-258-0929, or on the web at
www.krausebooks.com
. ISBN #978-0-89689-502-7; at $50.00.
George Čuhaj
KP News
6/13/2007 1:07:22 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Monday, June 11, 2007
Early June Travel Report
Posted by george
Greetings
Well, George's appearance at the Ypsilanti Orphan Car show was enjoyable, however, I was traveling without my Chekcer, which did not make it out of the shops properly repaired (I was having tie rods and break pads replaced). As I was leaving the mechanic's property, I blew a break line, and left a puddle of fluid in the street. I came to a halt, and had to be pushed back into the mechanic's shop. Not a good sign at the start of a 600 mile trip, so the car stayed home and I took my daily driver on the adventure.
This was my first trip to Ypsilanti, the city is the location of the home of Preston Tucker, the Michigan Firehouse Museum and the oldest Hudson dealership - all sites worthy of a visit. The restored downtown is an interesting study in how a planed restoration can revitalize old buildings and bring folks back into the area for lunch, dinner and events.
My travel from Wisconsin to Michigan always includes a round-trip on the S.S. Badger, a 1950s car ferry. It is a coal fired steam ship (the last in operation in the U.S.) And overnight visits with a sculptor friend of mine, James MaloneBeach. He is an art teacher at Big Rapids High School, and an end-of-term day with high schoool students is always interesting.
The second part of the adventure was a long weekend to Little Rock, Ark., at the invitation of Tom Dodson and the Central Arkansas Coin Club. I gave a slide talk on new technologies of world bank notes at a special meeting of the club. It drew a varied attendance of current and prospective members as well as professionals from the banking council. Tom and I have been working at the Coin Collecting Merit Badge Midway Booth at the National Scout Jamborees of 2001 and 2005. We are already planing the 2010 event, celebrating the centennial of scouting in the United States.
The leasure part of my time in Little Rock included visits to the National Park Service Historic Site of Central High - the site of the 1950s school interegration events, the William Clinton Presidental Library, which also includes a restored train station, and a Arkansas Traveler's baseball game. The Razorback, a WWII submarine, is docked on the river, and in town for the day was the venerable paddlewheeler the Delta Queen. All said and done, it was a great trip.
Now, I've got plenty of voice-mail and e-mail to tackle.
George Čuhaj
6/11/2007 8:43:05 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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