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NEWSLETTER OF THE ORANGE COIN & STAMP CLUB INC FOR JUNE 2014

May 2014 minutes & the treasurer’s report are on

the back are on the back of the printed

version (but not on the pdf edition)

The NEWSLETTER OF THE

ORANGE COIN AND STAMP

CLUB INCORPORATED

Web page: www.philas.org.au/orange

OUR CLUB’S 49th YEAR

AUSTRALIA POST ISSUES

STAMP FOR G20 MEETING,

EARLIER RATHER THAN LATER

The G20 meeting is not until 15-15th November. It

is being held in the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. It is described as the most

important meeting of World leaders ever held in Australia... As many as 4 000 delegates & 3 000

members of the media are expected to attend.

The single, perf 14.6 x 13.86, 70c-value stamp was

issued in sheetlets of 10 stamps on 3rd June. It was

designed by McKillop College. Australia Post may

have saved money on graphic designers with this one.

Collectors have been saved from having it in peel-&-stick booklet form.

THE BANJO PATERSON PNC

COVER WAS QUITE POPULAR

The Bush Ballads: Banjo Paterson PNC cover was released on 13th May 2014. It retailed for $29.95. Sales were apparently very brisk.

Previous PNC’s had an Australian $1 coin or perhaps a coin from somewhere like Tuvalu. This one had three medallions. Where they worth the extra $26.85 over the value of a “normal” FDC with the four stamps? The PNC cover only had three stamps.

24th JUNE 2014

ISSUE #148

- Page - 2 ORANGE COIN & STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2014

OUR NEXT CLUB ‘NIGHT’

MEETING, AFTER THIS

ONE, IS ON TUESDAY 29th

JULY 2014 AND IS ALSO

THE ANNUAL GENERAL

MEETING

Our next nighttime general monthly meeting, after the June meeting is to be held on

Tuesday 29th July 2014 at 7.30pm.

The 2014 Annual General Meeting will be held immediately after the 29th July general meeting. There will be no competitive displays, and auction items are discouraged.

This advice is formal notice of the annual general meeting.

All of the positions in the Club will be declared

vacant at that annual general meeting and elections of officers will take place.

Please forward any reports for the A.G.M. to the Newsletter editor on the weekend before the

meeting, so that they can be included in the A.G.M. printed documents.

The Club always meets on the last Tuesday of each month, except in December at the

Orange Community Information & Services Centre (Woolworth’s Car Park side door), 79

Kite St, Orange. There is no access from the Kite St front door.

OUR NEXT DAYTIME MEETING

IS ON MONDAY 14th

JULY 2014

Our next lunchtime meeting will be on

Monday 14th July 2014 at midday in the meeting room in the Orange Community

Information & Service Centre, Kite Street. If you haven’t been before, please come along.

It’s an opportunity for swapping, for asking questions and for information.

A theme will be set at the June meeting.

OUR NEXT MONTHLY ORANGE

COIN & STAMP FAIR IN THE

ORANGE CULTURAL CENTRE

ON SATURDAY 5th

JULY 2014

Our next monthly Coin & Stamp Fair will be

held on Saturday 5th July 2014.

The Fair runs from 9am till about 3pm.

The venue for our monthly fair is the Orange Cultural Centre. It is held on the 1st

Saturday of each month

The Orange Cultural Centre is the white-

stuccoed building, with trees out the front on the right as you enter the Woolworth’s car park

from Sale St. If you make your way past the junior ballet dancing classes you will find us in

the room on the south side of the building.

OUR SPRING FAIR & AUCTION

IS ON SATURDAY 11th

OCTOBER

The Club’s annual Spring Fair is on Saturday

11th October in the Kenna Hall. We will be having an auction.

Members are asked to start preparing auction

lots. The catalogue would need to be produced by mid-September.

DEALERS WHO

ATTENDED OUR EXPO

2014

Dealers who attended Expo 2014 & deserve your continuing support are - -

A. Byrne Coins (Tony Byrne from

Canberra – PO Box 53, MITCHELL, A.C.T. 2911, ph (02) 6255 4044)

Leo Jakimow PO Box 1082, CANBERRA ACT 2601; phone (02) 6241 5292. E-mail: - [email protected]

Pittwater Philatelic Service (John & Tracy Pearson); Shop 18, 331-335 Barrenjoey Rd Newport Beach NSW 2106; PO Box 259, Newport Beach,

mailto:[email protected]


NSW, 2106; Ph (02) 9979 1561; Fax (02) 9979 1577. Mobile 0412 904 295. E-mail: [email protected] website www.ozemail.co.au/~pittwaterstamps/

Wynyard Coin Centre 7 Hunter Arcade, Sydney, 2000 – Lower Concourse, Wynyard Railway Station; Ph (02) 9299 2047 & Fax (02) 9290 3710

Orange Stamps and Coins (Howard

Lyons) PO Box 9288, ORANGE NSW 2800; Ph/fax (02) 6362 2368; E-mail: - [email protected]

ITEMS FOR THIS NEWSLETTER

AND CORRESPONDENCE TO

THE CLUB

Items for this newsletter need to be posted to the Secretary at the Club’s postal address: -PO Box 324 ORANGE 2800. They can always also be e-mailed to: - [email protected]

-Or phone 63 614 872. The opinions expressed in this Newsletter are those of the editor & are not necessarily the Orange Coin & Stamp Club Inc.

TURN YOUR STAMPS INTO

CASH! PREPARE SOME PAGES

READY FOR THE CLUB’S

EXCHANGE BOOK

Turn your unwanted stamps into cash! Pages are needed for our next Exchange Book.

Tony Richards, the circuit book manager, can be contacted by phone on (02) 6361 7681 and at 1/62 Cox Avenue, Orange 2800.

We would like to remind members that it is very important to have clear printed initials where a stamp has been taken like “A.I.R.” We do not want to see scrawled, hard-to-decipher signatures or initials.

THANKS TO EXPO 2014

SPONSORS - PLEASE SUPPORT

THEM IN RETURN

A.B.C. Shop / Boomers Books

Australian Stamp Professional magazine

M.R. Roberts & the Wynyard Coin Centre

Jane Silvester of East Orange LPO

Geoff Henry & family

Klaus Barrasch

Orange Odeon5 Cinemas

Members who donated to the hamper raffle

Norm Binns, Tony Read behind him, & Rob Willis behind Tony at the Club table with customers at our

Expo 2014

DATES FOR 2014

Monthly Orange Coin & Stamp Fair at the

Orange Cultural Centre, Sat 5th July 2014, 9am-3pm

PHILAS Auction #118 at PHILAS House,

Darlinghurst, 12th July 2014

Orange Stamps and Coins, Public and Postal Auction, Kenna Hall, Hill St, Orange.

Viewing from 9.30am - Auction from 1.30pm

Orange Coin & Stamp Club monthly meeting followed by

annual general meeting, Tuesday 29th

July 2014, 7.30pm, Community Info & Services Centre, Kite St, Orange

Monthly Orange Coin & Stamp Fair at the Orange Cultural Centre, Sat. August 2nd, 9am-3pm


http://www.ozemail.co.au/~pittwaterstamps/




Albany WA Great War Centennial National

One Frame Exhibition (Postcards, Banknotes & State multiframe), 1-3 August 2014

Orange Coin & Stamp Club monthly

meeting, Tuesday 26th August 2014

Orange 2014 Spring Fair & Auction, Saturday 11th October

2014, Kenna Hall

Stampex 2014, 10-12 October 2014, Drill Hall, Torrens Parade Ground, Adelaide

Fishers Ghost Stamp Fair, Campbelltown,

Sunday 2nd November 10-3.30, Campbelltown

Civic Centre, Queen St, Campbelltown

Wagga Wagga Stamp & Coin Show, 22-23

November 2014, Sturt Primary School, Wagga

Sydney 2015 National Stamp Show,

Thursday 16th April to Sunday 19TH April at the Johny Warren Indoor Sports Centre at the Hurstville Aquatic Leisure Centre

BATHEX 2015 Bathurst Bicentenary

Collectables, Gem & Mineral Exhibition, Bathurst Showground, 26th-27th September 2015

THE NEXT LUNCH-TIME MEETING is at midday Monday

14th July 2014, at the Orange Community Information & Services

Centre, 79 Kite St. ……………………………………………………………………………

Thanks to Australian Stamps Professional Magazine for their kind donation of back copies

EXPO 2014. Pick the current issue up at your newsagent or email [email protected]. Most Orange

newsagents now keep it.

www.australianstampspr

……………………………………………………………………………………....

Thanks to

Orange’s ODEON5 Cinema for their kind donation of prizes for the Expo 2014 youth competition

………...…………………………………………………………………………

Thanks to M.R. Roberts’ Wynyard Coins for their kind donation, at Expo 2014, of three books to the Club’s Library ………...…………………………………………………………………………


http://www.australianstampspr/


[Advertisement]

ORANGE STAMPS AND COINS

PUBLIC & POSTAL AUCTION

SATURDAY 19th JULY 2014

In the Kenna Hall

90 Hill St Orange

Viewing from 9.30am to 12.30pm

Auction commencing at 1.30pm

Printed auction catalogue price $2, or a copy can be sent to your e-

mail address gratis by emailing - [email protected]

To obtain a printed copy please forward your payment to: - Orange Stamps & Coins,

PO Box 9288, ORANGE NSW 2800

For further details please contact me by e-mail or phone (02) 6362 2368



MINT UNCIRCULATED

This month’s contribution comes from St Petersburg.

Bland philatery I haven’t been sending many postcards but the stamps used in Estonia and Finland are remarkably unimaginative in design. In Estonia the €1 stamp depicts the one euro coin. In Finland the national flag provided the design. In both instances the stamps were sold as single items with peel away backing. For reasons I don’t understand the stamps still come with full perfs – adhering to tradition perhaps.

Mixed coinage Needless to say, I have been watching my small change, i.e., coins as distinct from notes. In Turkey there are about three denominations in circulation but I saw only the 100 lira coin, remarkably similar in size and bimetallic flan to the European one euro despite being worth much less. Within 24 hours of arrival in Estonia I found euro denominations from states as diverse as Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium and even Greece. Of all the “foreign” coins circulating in Estonia those from Germany were the most common. A vast improvement on the past when every petty state in Europe insisted on issuing unrelated currencies. In Russia most prices are denominated in hundreds of roubles – there are about 35 roubles to the Aus$ - so it is no surprise that in normal tourist purchases there is little demand for even the highest denomination, the 10 rouble, let alone smaller rouble multiples and even rouble fractions such as 10 kopecks. On previous visits to Russia several years ago the kopeck had negligible value and the bank window trays at money changers were full of kopecks and sub rouble denominations that no one thought worth picking up.

Lawrence Sherwin


From a recent Orange Life


Correspondence List for the 24th June 2014 meeting of the Orange Coin & Stamp Club

ITEM DATE IN ACTION 1. The Wagga Stamp Club

Inc, Newsletter for June

2014, 9pp

30th May 2014

2. PHILAS News for June

2014, 3 copies

5 June 2014

3. Maitland & District

Coin Club Newsletter for

June 2014

6thJune 2014

4. Queensland Numismatic

Society Inc Monthly

Magazine for May 2014

7th June 2014

5. M.R. Roberts’

NUMI$NEWS for June

2014

7th June 2014 Wynyard Coins’ sale ends

27 June 2014

6. APF News, 12 copies 13 June 2014

7. Catalogue for PHILAS

Auction #115 at PHILAS

House, Darlinghurst on 12

July 2014

13 June 2014 Also available on the

PHILAS website

8. Gladstone & District

Philatelic Society’s The

Gladstone Bag for 11 June

Meeting

20 July 2014

9. Tamworth Philatelic

Society’s Newsletter for

July-August 2014

23 June 2014

10. Letter of 18 June 2014

from Orange Council’s

Community Services

Manager advising that as

from 1 July 2014 if a non-

funded Community group

(like us) hire a meeting

room, then the first 10

usages will be free.

Thereafter it is $10 a

booking. As we have paid to

Nov 2014, the new charges,

we are told, will commence

for the month of June 2015

23 June 2014 We don’t have to do

anything. When we make

our 2015 bookings the first

10 will be free.

We need to think in the next

few months if we want the

midday meetings to move to

the café in Summer St.

For discussion.


TALKS FROM THE 27th MAY CLUB MEETING

GRAHAM DOHERTY – ROTARY ON STAMPS Graham introduced his 12-page display by saying he had originally prepared it for a Rotary club talk

entitled Stamp Collecting – Why I Do It? His wife had suggested finding and using Rotary-

themed stamps – but Graham said he didn’t find a huge lot. There was the 6c 50th

Anniversary of Rotary in Australia stamp issue of 17 May 1971. With this there was a first

day cover and associated postmarks. There was a Norfolk Island stamp and a few overseas

stamps

DEREK DOLSTRA – COOK BICENTENARY POSTMARKESD

COVER SET Derek Dolstra showed the set of small size, Australia Post #FDC-5 1970 Cook Bicentenary

covers with 5c Cook Bicentenary stamps and cancelled with the twelve HMS Endeavour

journey re-enactment postmarks.

The location of each postmark was relevant to Captain James Cook & his voyage down the

coast of eastern Australia. Most postmarking dates were very close to 200 years after the

dates of Cook’s original visit. The cancels are listed: -

Point Hicks Victoria 3889 20 April 1970 8269 cancels

Kurnell NSW 2231 27April-2 May 21,009 cancels

Bulli NSW 2516 27April-1 May 8690 cancels

Botany NSW 2019 27April-1 May 8448 cancels

Laurieton NSW 2443 27April-2 May 7915 cancels

The Entrance NSW 2261 4-16 May 6674 cancels

Coolangatta Qld 4225 13-19 May 6870 cancels

Gladstone Qld 4680 20-26 May 7328 cancels

Rockhampton Qld 4700 25-30 May 7085 cancels

Mackay Qld 4740 1-6 June 14 7030 cancels

Cooktown Qld 4870 15-20 June 14 6927 cancels

Thursday Island Qld 4875 17-22 August 6428 cancels

Cook’s ship, HMS Endeavour, made landfall at Point Hicks on 20 April 1770. He landed at

Kurnell on 29 April 1770 making first contact with Aboriginal Australians. The ship passed

Laurieton on 12 May 1770. The crew of HMS Endeavour spent seven weeks at Cooktown

repairing damage from the collision with Endeavour Reef. Derek added that these covers only had the 5c Cook Bicentenary stamp. The set of 12 covers with the 30c Cook Bicentenary stamp was listed in Australian Pictormarks at $450.

TONY READ – KARL GOETZ MEDALS Tony Read introduced his display by saying that some of the medals had featured in previous

displays.

Karl Goetz was born on 28 June 1875 in Augsberg, Germany. From 1889 to 1893 he was

apprenticed to an engraver. After moving to, and working in Paris as an engraver, he met and

subsequently studied under Firmin Lassete, a master medallist. In 1904 he left Paris & settled in

Munich. By 1905 he had developed a relationship with the Bavarian Royal Mint. They provided


him with a number of commissions. By 1913 he had also designed a series of pattern coins for

Prussia in gold, silver & copper.

When World War I started Goetz produced a number of medals honouring Germany’s leaders.

As the War went on these images gradually became more satirical. Goetz used humour to

criticise, good naturedly or otherwise, things that were happening in Germany’s war. Although

the medals were quite popular during the War and afterwards, they were sometimes highly

controversial. The designs gradually changed from hatred of Germany’s enemies to strong

criticism of Germany’s War leaders.

Goetz medal of the Kaiser parleying with Lenin & Trotsky

Tony Read showed a 1915 pro-War medal, a 1917 medal to commemorated Romania entering World War I and a 1918 medal showing the Kaiser getting a kick up the bum. The most controversial medal Tony showed was the Lusitania medal. The Lusitania was a Cunard liner that plied between New York & Liverpool. It was launched in 1906. When war broke out the British Navy thought about acquiring it – but as it consumed 910 tons of coal a day they demurred. At the start of the War it was painted in dark-green camouflage, but it soon went back to civilian colours.

On 1 May 1915 the German Embassy gave notice that the state-of-war zone included the seas around the British Isles. U.S. president Woodrow Wilson warned his government that if anything happened, he would hold Germany accountable. Unfortunately the Lusitania was torpedoed by a U-boat off the Irish Coast on 6th May 1915, with a loss of 1138 lives. Many of these were U.S. citizens. In its defence Germany proclaimed that the Lusitania was carrying ammunition and other War supplies. In August 1915 Goetz produced an issue of 500 bronze propaganda medals, blaming Cunard for

allowing the Lusitania to sail – showing it laden with guns. The medal showed an incorrect date – 5 May 1915. Its intention was hugely counter-productive. Selfridges (the department store) reproduced 250,000 copies of the medal in iron. The reproductions sold for 1/-, with the proceeds going to the Red Cross. They were widely distributed in the United States and were an additional impetus to that country entering the War. Tony Read showed both the original German Goetz medal and one of the reproductions.

The Lusitania medal


Tony also showed a 1919 medal Who Is To Blame?, showing kids, and a 1920 Code Napoleon medal depicting a French African Colonial occupation soldier – they were blamed atrocities including the raping German civilians.

Karl Goetz produced a number of satirical medals during the Weimar Republic 1919-1927, and later a Hitler medal. Only four of the Hitler medals were made, although in the period 1933 to 1945 he did make 146 medals but not many were political. Goetz was not a supporter of the Nazi Party. He died in Munich on 8th September 1950.

HOWARD LYONS – 7-SEAS APPROVAL BOOK Howard Lyons showed a crca-1967 Seven Seas approval book. It offered stamps at 2c each. These operated like circuit books and were received in the mail. They were widely advertised on the back pages of comics.

KLAUS BARRASCH – VICTORIAN PRIVATE PRINTED TO ORDER

NEWSPAPER WRAPPERS Klaus showed two Victorian private-printed-to-order newspaper wrappers. These were produced by the Victoria Government Printer for businesses and usually showed their name & address and sometimes some advertising. They were produced in the period before 1913 when States produced their own stamps. Klaus asked if anyone had any for sale.

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