Do you think the 1959-D mule cent with the wheat-back reverse is real or the perfect forgery? How about the 1943 bronze and copper cents, real or forgery? Read the book and you may be surprised on how easily they can be created. It is possible to create a bronze or copper cent that could avoid detection, but they are so rare they would not avoid suspicion. The author of "Numismatic Forgery" Mr. Larson was the night guard for a Mr. Frank Gasparro (master forger and murderer), who claims to have made the one and only 1959-D mule cent found so far. Mr. Larson now owns the machines and tools that Frank Gasparro claims to have used to make this cent. If Mr. Larson is successful in making another 1959-D mule cent, then does he not also become a forger?, (the Secret Service is watching). The United States Mint adamantly stated this mule cent could not have been made at the mint but we have it and it recently sold for $100,000.

    As a reference book that goes deep into the mind of a forger, you will find all the tools, equipment, and other resources necessary to make dies, manufacture planchets, and collars for edge markings of ancient to modern coins. An illustrated step-by-step guide to the principles, methods, and techniques to manufacture the rare or common coins. So after reading the book don't create something illegal or you just might meet Mr. Frank Gasparro in jail.

    We are at a point in time where there are thousands and thousands of counterfeiters and forgers. Thousands in the US and tens of thousands in China, Russia, Middle East, Africa, etc. Some countries have the money to buy the best tools and equipment necessary to create the perfect forgery.

    In the presentation of "Bust Half Dollars", that I did last year, I showed you pictures of Chinese workers creating forgeries adding edge lettering to early bust half dollars by the thousands. Master Forger and Murderer Frank Gasparro states that some of his forgeries are slabbed by major grading companies and his manufactured errors are scattered all around the Salt Lake area in collector's hands. This book will and should scare the hell out of you.  ...Stan Mead

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If you own a signed copy of Bill Fivaz's Counterfeit Detection Guide...

You are probably a numismatist...

And you should belong to the Anchorage Coin Club.

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Door Prize: Certified Coin-Tru Grade Service 1973 Lincoln Cent MS-66 Red Won by Don Somers. Membership Prize: Certified coin- International Numismatic Bureau 1971-S Jefferson Nickel GEM Proof Uncirculated. Won by Bud Biloon.

Other Prizes:

• Anchorage Coin Club 10^th Year Bronze Medallion (1988-1998). Won by Bob Zorick.

• Numismatic DVDs won by Dennis Williams, Bob Zorick, and John Pastes.

Announcements:

• Coin Show on Saturday (May 21^st 10 am-6 pm) and Sunday (May 22^nd 11 am-6 pm) at the University Center. Tables available at $10/ each with cases provided.

• After the coin show, next main event will be the club's Summer picnic on Saturday afternoon (July 9^th) at the Abbott Community Park on Elmore Road. The club will provide the hamburgers, hotdogs, chips, dips, soda pop, plates, forks, spoons, knives, and napkins. We ask that our club members bring a potluck side dish, salad, or dessert for the picnic.

• The main event at our July 9^th Summer picnic will be the Numismatic Donation Auction in which club members are asked to donate coins, paper currency, and numismatic items. Proceeds from the Donation Auction to benefit our club programs. We are now accepting such donations.

• Thanks go to Stan Mead and his wife, Ruth, for posting our club meeting times and dates in the Community Section of the Anchorage Daily News.

Following announcements, a presentation was then given by Stan Mead on the subject of "Numismatic Fraud- Difference Between a Counterfeit and a Fraud."

The meeting then concluded following the club's monthly coin auction.

Next meeting: June 1st 7pm.

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MISNUMICAT JUMBLE

Last: EPACE - PEACE the post war feeling celebrated with the eagle's closed wings on the back of the new 1921 silver dollar.

    Meeting called to order at the New Cauldron Restaurant at the University Center. No correspondence reviewed.

    Had dinner. Set times for coin show in upcoming weekend. Agreed to "CHILI NIGHT" for next membership meeting. Invented new event: SHOW AND TELL where each member brings in one of their favorite coins or sets and tells us about it.

Adjourned 7:20PM, next meeting June 15th.

    The coin show at the University Center was a great event for the club it was not such a great event for members selling coins at the show. People were happy to find us and we gave out several membership applications. Two news programs sent crews and our president was put on TV with his bushy eyebrows and commanding voice. Everyone from a housewife in Muldoon to a barber in midtown saw us with everything from BU Alaska quarters to ancient Roman coins to sell but not many of them were there to buy.

We need to work on advertising in the future but the exposure we got for the club was great.

-FROM BILL F1VAS

1859 (Copper Nickel) Indian Cent F MB 10
1872 Indian Cent G (Reverse Scratch) MB 35
1874 Indian Cent G MB 8
1970-S/S (Strong) Cent RPM#l BU NM
1982-P Cent struck through BU MB 15
1852 Type I Silver 3 Cent F MB 20
1866 Nickel 3 Cent VF MB 10
1866 Nickel 3 Cent VF (Double Error: Misaligned obv. Die and Major Rev. Cud) MB 25
1939-P Jefferson Nickel Double Die Rev #1 F MB 15
1877 Seated Liberty Quarter F+ MB 20
1834 Bust Half VF-35 MB 55
1921-S Walking Half (Semi-Key) VG MB 35
1893-P Morgan Dollar Fine MB 175
Hobo Nickel by Keith Pederson MB 45
1882-CC GSA Morgan Dollar MS-62 PL MB 235

-Donation Lots from Bill Fivaz:

1892 Columbian Half VF NM
1926 Sesquicentennial Half VG NM

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION

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ADDRESS :_________________________________________________

DUES: Regular; Full membership for those living in Anchorage $25

          Sponsored membership - first year $15

          Senior, Handicap, & Associates outside Anchorage area $10

          Junior; those under the age of 17 $5

          Life membership $250

WINNERS DRAWN AT OUR SUMMER PICNIC

TICKETS: $5 each or 5 for $20

SECOND AND THIRD PRIZE SAME TICKET