Mark your calendar for the next Mid-Island Coin Club Meeting:
Meeting Cancelled! Thursday – Sept 9th, 2021 (6:45pm)
Our Sept 2021 meeting is cancelled due to the rise in COVID-19 Cases and BC Health Authority!
New Meeting Location:
Boston Pizza, 5779 Turner Rd, Nanaimo, BC
(Upstairs in the Meeting Room)
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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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, […]
The “Tree Cents” of Prince Edward Island. By: MICC Lifetime member #001 For many years, the local currency pound of Prince Edward Island was out of step with those of the rest of her neighbours who typically used “Halifax Currency” whereby a dollar (U.S., Spanish-American or Spanish) was valued at 5-shillings (a Halifax Pound = […]
Genoa Bay Farm By: Ron Greene (From Transactions of the Canadian Numismatic Research Society, Vol. 4, 1968, p.43. Reprinted by permission). Genoa Bay Farm is situated in a very pretty little valley overlooking Genoa Bay about eight road miles east of Duncan. The farm is owned and operated by Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Lines. […]
