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The World's Fair of Money will be coming to Milwaukee and should be pretty prestigious. They have a couple pieces deemed national treasures and many high-end auctions. There's gonna be over $30 million in coins and money either on display or auction.
Your Guide to ANA's World's Fair of Money
By Numismatic News
July 26, 2007
Many of the features of annual ANA World's Fair of Money conventions are rolled over from year to year, with efforts extended to make them bigger and better. Just to whet your appetite, here are several special things that are being planned for the 116th anniversary renewal in Milwaukee:
1) Paper Money of Wisconsin, a special invitational display of 170+ cases;
2) ANA classes, seminars and workshops;
3) U.S. Mint & Bureau of Engraving & Printing participation;
4) U.S. Post Office - a special postmark and full local office participation;
5) Numismatic Theatre (approximately 50 presentations to choose from;
6) Collector Educational Exhibits (a vast and varied array of 450+ cases;
7) World Mint Promenade (some 20 mints will display their latest products);
8) Heritage Auctions (4 or 5 sessions featuring diverse and rare materials)
9) Club Midway & Meetings (more participating organizations than ever... and there will be more.
Planning is still evolving both locally and on a national basis, as the local committees work with ANA staff and officers to present the best ANA ever.
Exhibits abound at ANA
A wide range of exhibits will be on display at the American Numismatic Association's 2007 World's Fair of Money Aug. 8-12 in Milwaukee, Wis.
"The convention's theme is 'Collecting Coins Captures Time Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,' said Clifford Mishler, the event's general chairman. "The planned exhibits certainly will capture that theme."
One of the Marquee exhibits is the Bebee specimen 1913 Liberty Head nickel. The display is a 40th anniversary homecoming for the coin that was sold for $46,000 in 1967 by the widow of its long-time owner, Milwaukee collector, J.V. "Mac" McDermott. Buyers at that sale, Aubrey and Adeline Bebee of Omaha, Neb., later donated the famous coin to the ANA museum in 1989.
The finest-known 1663 Petition Crown will be on exhibited. It is one of the most important and rare coins in British history, and it will be displayed courtesy of Geoffrey Cope. It was produced by former Royal Mint chief engraver Thomas Simon as a proposed design for King Charles II. The coin's edge lettering spells out his petition for consideration of the design.
The Petition Crown is part of the ANA museum's current exhibit, "Coins, Crown & Conflict: An Exploration of Cromwell's England."
More than 1,500 Wisconsin bank notes from the collection of Chester L. Krause will be available for viewing. It comprises the most extensive collection of state paper money ever publicly exhibited at one time.
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing's "Billion Dollar Display," will be exhibited. It features examples of Series 1934 $100,000 denomination gold certificates, the highest denomination paper money ever produced by the United States. The BEP will also display the face plates used for printing 12-subject Series 1934A $10,000 and 1934C $5,000 notes for the Chicago Federal Reserve District.
Visitors can view The Smithsonian Institution's exhibit, "The Renaissance of American Coinage," displaying coins minted from 1907 to 1916. The exhibit features the only two existing 1907 Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle pieforts. The two double-thick, high-relief coins were struck with $10-diameter planchets.
The U.S. Mint will display 22-karat gold proof Sacagawea dollars that soared into space aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. The coins were included on the mission to commemorate the first space shuttle flight under the command of a woman, Col. Eileen Collins.
Odyssey Marine Exploration will display rare coins discovered on the shipwreck of the SS Republic. The steamship, which sank off the coast of Georgia in 1865 en route from New York to New Orleans, served in both the Confederate and Union navies during the Civil War.
One of the 100-kilogram, .99999 fine gold coins made by the Royal Canadian Mint will be on display. The face value is $1 million (Canadian), but it actually contains more than $2.3 million (U.S.) of virtually pure gold. This is the first time one of these coins will be publicly displayed in the Midwest. The exhibit will be at the Royal Canadian Mint's table in the Mint Promenade.
The five-day convention will take place at the Midwest Airlines Center, 400 W. Wisconsin Ave. It will be free and open to the public.
For more information about marquee exhibits at the Milwaukee World's Fair of Money, call (719) 482-9828 or e-mail [email protected].
Your Guide to ANA's World's Fair of Money
By Numismatic News
July 26, 2007
Many of the features of annual ANA World's Fair of Money conventions are rolled over from year to year, with efforts extended to make them bigger and better. Just to whet your appetite, here are several special things that are being planned for the 116th anniversary renewal in Milwaukee:
1) Paper Money of Wisconsin, a special invitational display of 170+ cases;
2) ANA classes, seminars and workshops;
3) U.S. Mint & Bureau of Engraving & Printing participation;
4) U.S. Post Office - a special postmark and full local office participation;
5) Numismatic Theatre (approximately 50 presentations to choose from;
6) Collector Educational Exhibits (a vast and varied array of 450+ cases;
7) World Mint Promenade (some 20 mints will display their latest products);
8) Heritage Auctions (4 or 5 sessions featuring diverse and rare materials)
9) Club Midway & Meetings (more participating organizations than ever... and there will be more.
Planning is still evolving both locally and on a national basis, as the local committees work with ANA staff and officers to present the best ANA ever.
Exhibits abound at ANA
A wide range of exhibits will be on display at the American Numismatic Association's 2007 World's Fair of Money Aug. 8-12 in Milwaukee, Wis.
"The convention's theme is 'Collecting Coins Captures Time Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,' said Clifford Mishler, the event's general chairman. "The planned exhibits certainly will capture that theme."
One of the Marquee exhibits is the Bebee specimen 1913 Liberty Head nickel. The display is a 40th anniversary homecoming for the coin that was sold for $46,000 in 1967 by the widow of its long-time owner, Milwaukee collector, J.V. "Mac" McDermott. Buyers at that sale, Aubrey and Adeline Bebee of Omaha, Neb., later donated the famous coin to the ANA museum in 1989.
The finest-known 1663 Petition Crown will be on exhibited. It is one of the most important and rare coins in British history, and it will be displayed courtesy of Geoffrey Cope. It was produced by former Royal Mint chief engraver Thomas Simon as a proposed design for King Charles II. The coin's edge lettering spells out his petition for consideration of the design.
The Petition Crown is part of the ANA museum's current exhibit, "Coins, Crown & Conflict: An Exploration of Cromwell's England."
More than 1,500 Wisconsin bank notes from the collection of Chester L. Krause will be available for viewing. It comprises the most extensive collection of state paper money ever publicly exhibited at one time.
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing's "Billion Dollar Display," will be exhibited. It features examples of Series 1934 $100,000 denomination gold certificates, the highest denomination paper money ever produced by the United States. The BEP will also display the face plates used for printing 12-subject Series 1934A $10,000 and 1934C $5,000 notes for the Chicago Federal Reserve District.
Visitors can view The Smithsonian Institution's exhibit, "The Renaissance of American Coinage," displaying coins minted from 1907 to 1916. The exhibit features the only two existing 1907 Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle pieforts. The two double-thick, high-relief coins were struck with $10-diameter planchets.
The U.S. Mint will display 22-karat gold proof Sacagawea dollars that soared into space aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. The coins were included on the mission to commemorate the first space shuttle flight under the command of a woman, Col. Eileen Collins.
Odyssey Marine Exploration will display rare coins discovered on the shipwreck of the SS Republic. The steamship, which sank off the coast of Georgia in 1865 en route from New York to New Orleans, served in both the Confederate and Union navies during the Civil War.
One of the 100-kilogram, .99999 fine gold coins made by the Royal Canadian Mint will be on display. The face value is $1 million (Canadian), but it actually contains more than $2.3 million (U.S.) of virtually pure gold. This is the first time one of these coins will be publicly displayed in the Midwest. The exhibit will be at the Royal Canadian Mint's table in the Mint Promenade.
The five-day convention will take place at the Midwest Airlines Center, 400 W. Wisconsin Ave. It will be free and open to the public.
For more information about marquee exhibits at the Milwaukee World's Fair of Money, call (719) 482-9828 or e-mail [email protected].
