Keokuk Coin Club
OUR 65th ANNIVERSARY MEETING!
The 730th meeting of the Keokuk Coin Club will be held on the evening of Thursday, May 15”, starting at 6:00 p.m., in the Lost Canvas Studio, 711 Main Street, in Keokuk. Nearby parking on Main Street should be pretty easy to find by the time of our evening meeting. All club members are urged to attend the meeting; visitors and guests are always welcome!
This is our 65” anniversary meeting—and we did not have an auction at our March meeting—so we will NOT be following our usual order of business for this evening’s meeting. We did not have an auction in March because of low turnout, and our turnout was low because two of our most valued members passed away, and a third very highly valued member has left the area in order to live closer to her family. We lost both our president and our vice president, but the nine members who were able to attend the March meeting all decided they wanted to try again. We have a candidate for president and a candidate for secretary / treasurer. We do need to elect a vice president and get one more member, who would not have to be the vice president, to volunteer to help clerk for our auctions. We need to get our attendance back up into the mid-teens.
The members at the March meeting decided that all of this should be doable—and they also decided that the 64 lots in the March auction might have as many as 36 lots added to them for a grand double auction at our 65”’ Anniversary meeting May 15”‘. So this will be our unusual order of business for this meeting: If possible, arrive at the Lost Canvas Studio between 5:30 & 6:00 p.m. for socializing, with our more experienced members available to identify and estimate the value of coins, paper money, tokens, etc. This is also when members can buy, sell or trade with other members. We will be called to order promptly at 6:00 p.m. for the first half of the evening’s auction. We’ll know we’ve reached the halfway point because that’s when the pizza will arrive. So we’ll pause for pizza, more socializing and a short business meeting. We need to elect our 2025 officers! Bring something to show & tell; we are even hoping to have enough time for a bit of that. And then we’ll complete the auction. (Attendance may dictate a last minute change to this schedule.)
OUR 65th ANNIVERSARY MEETING!
The 730th meeting of the Keokuk Coin Club will be held on the evening of Thursday, May 15”, starting at 6:00 p.m., in the Lost Canvas Studio, 711 Main Street, in Keokuk. Nearby parking on Main Street should be pretty easy to find by the time of our evening meeting. All club members are urged to attend the meeting; visitors and guests are always welcome!
This is our 65” anniversary meeting—and we did not have an auction at our March meeting—so we will NOT be following our usual order of business for this evening’s meeting. We did not have an auction in March because of low turnout, and our turnout was low because two of our most valued members passed away, and a third very highly valued member has left the area in order to live closer to her family. We lost both our president and our vice president, but the nine members who were able to attend the March meeting all decided they wanted to try again. We have a candidate for president and a candidate for secretary / treasurer. We do need to elect a vice president and get one more member, who would not have to be the vice president, to volunteer to help clerk for our auctions. We need to get our attendance back up into the mid-teens.
The members at the March meeting decided that all of this should be doable—and they also decided that the 64 lots in the March auction might have as many as 36 lots added to them for a grand double auction at our 65”’ Anniversary meeting May 15”‘. So this will be our unusual order of business for this meeting: If possible, arrive at the Lost Canvas Studio between 5:30 & 6:00 p.m. for socializing, with our more experienced members available to identify and estimate the value of coins, paper money, tokens, etc. This is also when members can buy, sell or trade with other members. We will be called to order promptly at 6:00 p.m. for the first half of the evening’s auction. We’ll know we’ve reached the halfway point because that’s when the pizza will arrive. So we’ll pause for pizza, more socializing and a short business meeting. We need to elect our 2025 officers! Bring something to show & tell; we are even hoping to have enough time for a bit of that. And then we’ll complete the auction. (Attendance may dictate a last minute change to this schedule.)
