SPECIAL 2005
ANA WORLD'S FAIR OF MONEY
COMMEMORATIVE ISSUES
OF THE
SAN JOSE COIN CLUB
To Celebrate
and Honor the ANA's 2005 World's Fair of Money, the San Jose Coin Club
produced three 38.9mm commemorative medals and two
commemorative Wooden Nickels.
The medals were issued in the
following metals:
A.
Silver, 300 pieces
B. Golden Bronze, 400 pieces
C.
Brilliant Copper, 700 pieces (common reverse shown)
D. ANA Obverse Wooden Nickel
E. San Jose Coin Club Obverse Wooden Nickel
F. Common Wooden Nickel reverse shown
Limited editions of 250 sets of medals were offered for sale as well
as 250 sets of the Wooden Nickels. The Brilliant Copper medals were used
not only in the
mint sets but were given as special gifts at the ANA Banquet. The
Reverse of the medals includes the initials of a number of San Jose Bay
Area coin clubs:
o
RCCC - Redwood Empire Coin Club
o
SFCC - San Francisco Coin Club
o
PCNS - Pacific Coast Numismatic Society
o
LNS - Liberty Numismatic Society
o
PCC - Peninsula Coin Club
o
CCC - Cupertino Coin Club
o
VNS - Vallejo Numismatic Society
o
NCNA - Northern California Numismatic
Society
o
ACC - Alameda Coin Club
o
FCC - Fremont Coin Club
o
FCC - Fairfield Coin Club
o
SSRC - Solano Silver Round Club
o
DNS - Diablo Numismatic Society
o
LVCC - Livermore Valley Coin Club
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Various
important sites around the San Jose Bay Area are marked. See if you can
find them:
o
Wine Country
o
Stanford Medical Center
o
Silicon Valley
o
Lick Observatory
Did you find the initials of the last names of each of the
designers?
o
A= Gary A
o
J = Ryan J
o
L= Al L
If you still have not found them look on the computer screen!
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