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Vol. 5, No. 7 July, 2006

MICCy Speaks     .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    Pages 2 - 3
"The Day the Mint Ran Out of Money"    .    .   .    .    .    .    .    .     4 - 9
"Early Issues of the Sherritt Mint" .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .     10 - 13
"Some Rare P.E.I. Tokens" (Willey)    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .      13 - 15
"The Order of Hildegard"      .    .   .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .             15
"'Halifax Banking Co.' Specimen Sheet, 1872" .    .    .    .    .    .        16

Above: Essequebo & Demarary (British Guiana) 1 stiver, 1813. This and its accompanying ½-stiver were imported and widely used in New Brunswick as 1d and ½d pieces, the stiver being exactly equal to a penny, Halifax Currency.

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

Executive Officers:

President:                                                                                                  Jeff Ross
Vice-President:                                                                                      Phil Harris
Treasurer:                                                                                           Bob Bresden
Secretary & Editor:                                                                          Wayne Jacobs
Directors:                                             Jim Bourgeois, Bill Lane, Orest Minishka

NOTICE:
The next meeting of the Mid-Island Coin Club will be held on Thursday, July 13, 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.

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