Medal Collectors of America
Saturday, Noon

Our January club meeting in New York is shaping up to be another blockbuster. Dr. Lawrence Lee will be the keynote speaker. Dr. Lee's presentation will focus on the Crane collection of IndianPeace Medals at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Everyone is invited and welcome. Our January meeting is held every year in conjunction with the New York International Numismatic Convention. Itwill take place at noon on Saturday January 13, 2018. The show is at the Grand Hyatt Hotel located at 109 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10022, between Park and Lexington Avenues. Our meeting is inthe Julliard room and anyone planning to attend should have no problem finding it once at the convention hotel. If you have any questions about the show, please visit their website at:http://www.nyinc.info/index.php; or email any one of the officers.

British Numismatic Society
Saturday 4pm

The meeting will take place on Saturday 13 January, at the Uris Room, Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York, at 4pm, in conjunction with the 46th New York International Numismatic Convention

Our speaker is David Vagi (Certified Collectibles Group, Sarasota, FL), and David's presentation is entitled "Roman coins and the province of Britannia".

When the Roman emperor Claudius invaded Britain in AD 43 he encountered a thriving Iron Age culture that often has been described as 'Celtic'. Once a Roman presence was established, Rome's coinagebegan to circulate on an increasingly large scale. Soon it displaced local currencies and came into common usage. Like any of Rome's provinces, Britain was the site of periodic uprisings and a widerange of imperial concerns. On some occasions this led to special coin types referencing Britain, notably under Claudius, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Commodus and the Severans. In the later 3rd centuryAD a variety of new coinages began to circulate in Britain. They include imitative issues (often called 'barbarous radiates') and coins of the rebel-emperor Carausius, who established Roman-stylemints in Britain. After his successor, Allectus, was defeated in 296/7, the Romans continued to strike coins in Britain well into the 4th century.

We would like to extend a warm welcome to all, whether a member of the Society or not.

The British Numismatic Society (founded 1903) exists to promote the study of coins, tokens, medals and paper money of the British Isles, the Commonwealth and other territories that have beensubject to British rule. Details of membership may be had from the Secretary, Peter Preston-Morley, secretary@britnumsoc.org

For more information on the show, see:
http://www.nyinc.info/