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EXECUTIVE 2019 to 2020 Past President : Bruce Watt * President Sharon MacLean Vice President Terry Campbell Treasurer Vic Shewchuk Secretary Leslie Sanderson Librarian Vac. News Editor Sharon MacLean Directors Ed Keetch Marion Alexander Ernie Ruch Mike Melnichuk Bob Holden Barry Dutton

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he next meeting is JAN. /21 CANCELLED Doors open at 12:30 P.M.at Rundle Park Community Centre ( Located at Park & Gibb.). Remember the Oshawa &

District Coin Club is always open to friends and relatives. Please feel free to bring your friends and neighbors. Its nice to meet new people and you never know you may just generate new interest in the hobby.

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NOTE!!! . JAN./21 MEETING CANCELLED !!!!! FROM THE PRES: Miracles happen with running out to get a new monitor after breakdown As you all are aware we are under lock down due to covid, plus now a new strain developed an the first case in Durham. I am expecting more once people have returned from holidays. I contacted rundal as usual every month to verify and it is closed. so hope for Feb. I will have also contacted the pavilion to get update on their statis an still waiting for word from them. But had to get this out.

Please Note!!!! There is a good chance that our feb/21 show may have to be pushed back so I’m letting everyone know ahead this is a very strong possibility it could happen.

PLEASE EVERYONE STAY SAFE & TAKE EXTRA CARE EVERYONE S HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE.

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2021 MEETING SCHEDULE Meets at Rundle Park Community Centre at 12:30 P.M. second Sunday of each month (some exceptions)

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Berlin police raided homes and jewelry shops Wednesday on suspicion they could be connected to efforts to fence a mas-sive 100-kilogram Canadian gold coin — piece by piece — that was stolen from a museum in the German capital. The coin, with an estimated value of 3.75 million euros ($5.82 million Cdn) was stolen from Berlin's Bode Museum in 2017 and has not yet been recovered. The morning raids were focused on eight suspects, aged between 14 and 51, of various na-tionalities, police said. They are alleged to have been part of a ring that obtained stolen gold to melt it down and forge col-lector coins, then sell them as genuine through jewelry stores operated by them or their relatives. Some of the counterfeits are already circulating, police said.

Cash, counterfeit coins seized

The searches led to the discovery of counterfeit coins, forgery tools and a "five-digit" sum of cash, police said. "The evalu-ation of the evidence is ongoing," police said. "Among other things, a possible connection to the theft of the gold coin from the Bode Museum is being examined." The searches came just two days after the arrest of a key suspect in the spectacular theft of 18th-century jewels from a Dresden museum last year. The suspect is from a crime family linked to the Canadian gold coin theft. Mohamed Remmo, 21, was arrested by Berlin authorities in a car in the Neukoelln district of the city on Monday evening. His twin brother, Abdul Majed Remmo, remains at large. Canadian Gold coin Heist : Prosecuters seek lengthy prison terms for accused Police and prosecutors would not comment on whether there was a connection between the arrest and the searches, but members of the same family were convicted earlier this year for the Canadian gold coin theft. Cousins Ahmed Remmo and Wissam Remmo, along with a friend who worked as a security guard at the museum, were all convicted of that Canadian gold coin heist and sentenced to several years in prison.

Roman coins supposedly discovered in Belgium are believed to have been illegally excavated in France. Photo courtesy of the Onroerend Erfgoed, the Flemish Organization for Immovable Heritage. French authorities in Belgium have seized a massive haul of 27,400 Roman coins and artifacts. Following a joint investigation by the two nations, officials found the hoard in the posses-sion of a French man and his mother living in Belgium. “The offender is l iable to imprisonment and hundreds of thousands of Euros in customs fines, ” Bruno Le Maire, France ’s economy minister, “This is a clear message to those who, for the benefit and selfish pleasure of a few, rob us of our common heritage and erase entire swaths of our history. ” Altogether, officials believe the treasures are worth €772,685 ($946,670), Identified only as Patrice T., the subject of the ongoing criminal investi-gation is suspected of planting his i llegal archaeological finds from France in Belgium.

Some of the thousands of objects believed to have been looted in France and recovered during the raid of the home of a man id entified only as Pa-

tr ice T. Photo courtesy of the Douane Française, the d irectorate -general of customs and indirect taxes. Using a metal detector is outlawed in France except in scientific research. Under Belgian law, personal use of metal detectors is allowed, and the finder is entitled to keep his discoveries if he owns the land where they are found. The case has been under investigation since October 2019, when Patrice called Onroerend Erfgoed, the Flemish Organization for Immovable Heritage, claiming that he had recently purchased an apple orchard in the Belgian town of Gingelom and that, while cleaning the property, he had found 14,154 Roman coins.Archaeologist Marleen Martens was one of five agency experts sent to investigate. “He opened the car boot and showed me two enormous plastic buckets filled to the brim. I had never seen so many coins, ”

she told La Voix du Nord. The agency team immediately sensed that something wasn ’t right and shared their suspi-cions with French authorities.“During the site survey we concluded that it was impossible for the coins to have come from this site,” Martens told the Het Nieuwsblad newspaper. “They were located in an earth layer that was formed

after the Middle Ages. A few coins could exceptionally still toss up Patrice ’s cache of antiquities includes Bronze brace-lets, Iron Age torques, Roman coins and brooches, Renaissance belt buckles, artifacts from the Middle Ages, and other antiquities. Among them is a hollow copper Roman dodecahedron, a rare and mysterious 12 -faced object of unknown use, of which there are only 100 or so extant examples. The majority of the coins were likely buried by the end of the third century. French customs officials believe Patrice amassed the collection through “the looting of various sites in

France,” according a statement cited by Agence France Presse. By taking advantage of the differences between French and Belgian law, Patrice then allegedly sought to pass off the illicit finds as legitimate. Patrice has a long history of archaeological discoveries, reports De Standaard ,including 5,250 coins from the third and fourth century, which he

German police raid jewelry shops, homes in search for 100-kg Canadian gold coin The Associated Press · Posted: Dec 16, 2020 1:19 PM ET

French Authorit ies Seized More Than 27,000 Potentially Looted Ar-chaeological Artifacts Hoarded by a Single Collector in Belgium

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Gardeners unearth coins inscribed with Henry the VIII’s First three wives By meilan solly Dec.11th 2020

In 1526, Henry VIII and his chief advisor, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, reformed England’s coinage in hopes of regulating the kingdom’s econo-my. As part of the project, the Tudor king introduced new denominations—gold crowns—with an unexpected feature: the initials of his queen consort, Catherine of Aragon. Seven years later, when Henry divorced Catherine to marry Anne Boleyn, the Royal Mint issued a new set of crowns inscribed with the letter “A.” Three years after that, when Henry had Anne beheaded on trumped-up charges of adultery, incest, witch-craft and conspiring to kill him, the Mint produced yet another gold coin, this time dedicated to the monarch’s latest queen, Jane Sey-mour.Though Henry married three more times, his later wives (Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr) never appeared on the kingdom’s currency—perhaps a wise decision considering the difficulty of keeping up with an ever-shifting cast of queens. This spring, four such rare Tudor tokens turned up in the New Forest area of southern England, where a British family weeding its garden during Covid-19 lock-down unearthed a trove of 64 medieval coins. Per a statement from the British Museum’s Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), which is respon-sible for tracking the English and Welsh public’s archaeological finds, the collection includes 63 gold coins and one silver coin dated to between the late 15th and early 16th centuries. “They were out turning up the soil and all of a sudden these coins popped out of the ground … miracu-lously,” Ian Richardson, the museum’s treasure registrar, tells the Guardian’s Mark Brown. “It is quite a shocking find for them and very inter-esting for us.” In total, the trove spans the reigns of five British monarchs: Edward IV, Edward V, Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII. At the time of their burial around 1540, the coins were worth £24, or £14,000 (almost $18,500 USD) today—a “great deal of money, certainly more than the annual wages of the average person,” says Barrie Cook, a curator of medieval and early modern coins at the museum, to the Guardian. The majority of the coins are “angels” depicting Saint Michael slaying a dragon. The gold crowns bearing the royals’ initials, meanwhile, fea-ture the Tudor rose and shield of arms. Researchers are unsure whether the coins’ owner buried them all at once or made regular deposits over time. John Naylor, a coin expert at the University of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, posits that a wealthy merchant or clergy member buried the hoard in response to Henry’s Dissolution of the Monasteries. Some churches did try to hide their wealth, hoping they would be able to keep it in the long term,” One of the gold crowns found in southern England (© The Trustees of the British Museum). A medieval mount with the person-al emblem of Richard III (© The Trustees of the British Museum) 1970s South African gold coins (© The Trustees of the British Museum) As Ben Johnson explains for Historic U.K., Henry, who’d broken from the Catholic Church in 1534 to wed Anne, ruthlessly dissolved the king-dom’s monasteries as part of England’s Protestant Reformation. Aided by advisor Thomas Cromwell, the king spent the late 1530s and ’40s shutting down houses of worship, seizing their land and wealth, and engaging in iconoclastic destruction. In doing so, he both eliminated sym-bols of the papacy and filled his dwindling coffers with funds from the Church’s treasures. Writing for COINage magazine in 2018, R.W. Julian noted that the 1526 currency overhaul marked Henry’s first experiment with debasement, or the practice of lowering coins’ worth but maintain-ing their face value by increasing the percentage of everyday metals mixed in with precious metals like gold or silver. Officials used the extra gold and silver to mint additional coins, theoretically making more funds available but, in practice, sparking widespread inflation. Toward the end of his reign, Henry embarked on a similar economic venture, replacing coins’ precious metal content with cheaper base metals to such an extent that the policy was later dubbed the Great Debasement. Per a 2011 journal article by scholar Stephen Deng, the king, who “had already exhausted the bounteous resources he had acquired from the dissolution of the monasteries,” hoped to exploit England’s coinage to fund mili-tary campaigns in France, Scotland and Ireland. Following Henry’s death in 1547, his son Edward VI continued the practice, which only came to an end in 1551. The Tudor coins are among more than 47,000 archaeological finds made in England and Wales this year, the British Museum said on Wednesday. Other key discoveries included a collection of 50 apartheid-era South African gold coins; a medieval mount featuring a white boar, the personal emblem of Richard III; and a copper Roman furniture fitting. Officials reported that Covid-19 lockdowns led to an up-tick in finds, with many pandemic-worn Brits seeking respite in their gardens.

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Next show on FEB 21st 2021 as per scheduled is very much in question now with the ONT lock down and new variant of Covid. an may have to be pushed back. So letting everyone know.

FEB. 21st SHOW IN QUESTION