The Mid-Island Coin Club,

Vol. 6, No. 4 April, 2007

 

 

MICCy Speaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pages 2 - 3

"Report on the Lasqueti Mint" ( Jennings ) . . . . . . 5 - 7

"The (Nearly) Perfect Counterfeiting Scheme" . . . . 7 - 10

"The Tale of the 5-Cent 'Fishscale'" . . . . . . . . 10 - 16

"A Giant $10.00 'Wood'" . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

 

Above: Great Britain , silver medal, 1760. " Canada Subdued" issued by the Society Promoting Arts and Commerce after the fall of Montreal in that year. The reverse is an adaptation of a " Judea Capta" design from the coinage of Roman emperor Vespasian (A.D. 69-79).

The Mid-Island Coin Club,

Meetings: The second Thursday of every month at 7:00 p.m. ,
A.B.C. Restaurant, Mary Ellen Drive, north Nanaimo , B.C.

  Mailing Address:
  Mid-Island Coin Club, c/o Nanaimo Stamp & Coin,
3150 North Island Highway ,
Nanaimo , B.C. V9T 1V9

President: Phil Harris
Vice-President: Jeff Ross
Treasurer: Bob Bresden
Secretary & Editor: Wayne Jacobs
Directors: Jim Bourgeois, Bill Lane , Orest Minishka
  Webmaster: (www.rightclickhome.com) Rob Tallone

   

NOTICE:

The next meeting of the Mid-Island Coin Club will be held Thursday, April 12, at 7:00 p.m. , at the A.B.C. Restaurant , Mary Ellen Drive , in north Nanaimo . (Mary Ellen is the first street parallel to Aulds Road northward ).

Wayne Jacobs is numismatic expert. He is the award winning author of numerous articles. He is the secretary and editor of the "Mid-Island Coin Club Numismatic Journal"of Nanaimo, Vancouver Island , British Columbia. The MICC journal are hosted here: MICC webpages Copyright 2006 Wayne Jacobs. This article may be reprinted freely for non commercial purpose only if the resource box is left intact, linking back to us.