MICC Meetings Cancelled!
Due to the recent rise in COVID-19 Cases and new province wide restrictions set in place on Sept 2nd by BC Health Authority, Our MICC meetings are cancelled until considered safe to reconvene. We understand this news will be disheartening for many, please understand these steps will allow us to do our part in containing the transmission.
Our “Mission Statement” is to promote interest in numismatics through education of our members. Encourage members to conduct research on history and geography as it relates to numismatics. Provide a forum for discussion and exchange of numismatic knowledge through regular meetings and a club newsletter. Support the hobby of numismatics and to cultivate social relationships among its members.
Many people have a few coins of interest in their homes either collected over the years or given to them by family, relatives or friends. These coins may be tucked away in a box or drawer. Meeting with ...
Read more »Mid-Island Coin Club (MICC) is a member of the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association. MICC holds monthly meetings at 6:45pm on the second Thursday of the month at the ABC Restaurant, 6671 Mary-Ellen Drive, ...
Read more »MICC is very fortunate to have a wide range of experienced members within its club. We welcome questions related to any form of numismatics (ie from Canadian or world banknotes, Canadian or world coins, ...
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The Esso “Play Coins” of Australia. By: MICC Lifetime member #001 Every so often, plastic tokens with obverses similar to the above show up, leading us to wonder what they are. They are actually a sort of play money given away to children by the Esso Oil Company stations in Australia in 1966 to familiarize […]
The First Foreign Issues of the Ottawa Mint. By: MICC Lifetime member #001 It’s quite true that it’s an ill wind that blows no one any good – and this was true even of the international disaster called the First World War. The war proved to be very, very good for the profit columns of […]
Aluminum – The Poor-Relative Coinage Metal. By: MICC Lifetime member #001 When it comes to being a coinage metal, we tend to think of aluminum as one of the “junk” metals, ranking just ahead of zinc. Everything conspires to make this so: it is used only by second- and third-world countries; it is used for […]
The Calgary Commemorative Silver Dollar of 1975 By: MICC Lifetime member #001 Calgary was founded for one overriding purpose: location. Immediately after he had the power to do so after Confederation, Prime Minister John A. Macdonald moved to establish a Canadian presence in vast unsettled area of the Prairies. His fears were justified; the Americans, […]
