July 2023 - Denver Coin Club - Love Tokens

I had a chance to attend the July Denver Coin Club (DCC) monthly meeting.  I have not participated much in coin clubs in the past, but had been encouraged to attend the DCC for the past several months.  The meeting was well attended at about 50 people including mostly members and about 10 guests including myself.  Membership is a nominal $20 annually and if I attend again, I will sign up.  Talked with Eric and Mark.

Doors open at 6 PM, with the meeting to start at 7 PM.  I arrived around 6:40 PM.  Dealers had set up their wares and were doing the buy/sell/trade thing.  There was also silent auction items and free numismatic magazines.

The talk was given by Bob Bair on Love Tokens which featured the 1898 $5 gold piece from his essay submitted to CAC Grading. His family certainly had an interesting story with his grandfather purchasing the coin to wear on his pocket watch chain as a reminder of his wife and the date she accepted his marriage proposal.

There was also some business stuff including treasurer's report, secretary's report, update on medals.

Finally there was an auction at the end that I did not stick around for.

I did purchase and 1835 h10c LM-8.1 (raw VF25) from DR that filled a nice hole in my collection.  Ideally I would submit it for PCGS grading at the next opportunity.