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5. Numismatic addresses/sources
FAQS
Coin Collecting FAQ at URL http://www.telesphere.com/ts/coins/faq.html
Hobby Organizations:
American Numismatic Association (ANA), 818 North Cascade Avenue, Colorado Springs, CO 80903-3279, USA, telephone 719 632-2646, FAX 719 634-4085 at URL http://www.money.org.ANA Convention Department:
anacvn@money.org
ANA Education Department:
anaedu@money.org
ANA Resource Center (Library):
analib@money.org
General email:
ana@money.org
American Numismatic Society (ANS) at URL http://www.AmNumSoc2.org
Director: Leslie A. Elam elam@amnumsoc.org
Librarian: Francis D. Campbell campbell@amnumsoc.org
General email:
info@amnumsoc.org
Canadian Numismatic Association (CNA), P.O. Box 226, Barrie, Ontario, Canada L4M 4T2
Early American Coppers, Inc. (EAC), c/o Rod Burress, PO Box 15782, Cincinnati, OH 45215, USA
Flying Eagle and Indian Cent Collectors Society (Fly-In Club), c/o Xan Chamberlain, Secretary, PO Box 915, Palo Alto, CA 94302, USA
New England Numismatic Association (NENA), P.O. Box 3003, Nashua, NH 03061-3003, USA
Society of Lincoln Cents Collectors (SLCC), 13515 Magnolia Blvd., Sherman Oaks, CA 91423, USA
Society of Private and Pioneer Numismatics (SPPN), c/o Dave Showers, P.O. Box 4423, Davis, CA 95617-4423, USA
Standing Liberty Quarter Collectors Society (SLQCS), P.O. Box 14762, Albuquerque, NM 87191-4762, USA
Texas Numismatic Association, P.O. Box 14711, Austin, TX 78761-4711, USA
Phone:
Bob Metzger
512 331-6510, Internet:
bob.metzger@intranetsol.com
Numismatic Hobby Press:
Coin World, PO Box 4315, Sidney, OH 45365, USA, 1 800 253-4555.Numismatic News, Circulation Dept., 700 E. State St., Iola, WI, 54990,
USA.
Subscriber services phone 715 445-3775 ext. 257 or 800 258-0929.
Governmental:
British Royal Mint, PO Box 25, Woodside, NY 11377-9863, USA
Royal Canadian Mint, PO Box 457, Station A, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N
8V5.
Phone orders 1 800 268-6468 ext. 623. Fax 1 613 993-4092.
Israel Government Coins and Medals Corp., PO Box 4415, New York, NY 10163,
USA.
To order call 1 800 56-COINS
U.S. Mint, Customer Service Center, 10001 Aerospace Drive, Lanham, MD 20706,
USA.
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U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Office of Public Affairs, Room 533M, 14th and C Streets, SW, Washington, DC 20228, USA. 202 874-3019.
6. Administration of the Coins list
6. Administration of the Coins list We try to operate the list by consensus. Direct questions about administration of the list to the coins list manager or to the membership. Public members make policy decisions for C.O.I.N.S. -- Collectors On-line International Numismatic Service. The C.O.I.N.S. organizations is currently being formed. COINS list is hosted at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, IA. Ken Connelly is the systems manager for the DEC Alpha XMP. Thanks Ken.
There is an anonymous FTP coins archive on the internet at the University of Northern Iowa. Thanks Ken.
UNI anonymous FTP
From: COBRA::CONNELLY "Ken Connelly - VMS System Manager" at UNI
I have placed the submissions to COINS in the anonymous FTP directory tree in a subdirectory called COINS. They are organized and named by month. Take a look if you want.
DIRECTIONS
$ FTP COBRA.UNI.EDU
1993_05.TXT;2 143 29-APR-1994 08:24 [ISCS,KENTEST] (RWED,RWED,,R)
Please send your additions, corrections, questions, and comments to the FAQ
editor and Coins list owner, Daniel Power, email Daniel.Power@uni.edu or snail mail
to my home at 906 Barnett Drive, Cedar Falls, IA 50613 or more formally to:
Prof. Daniel Power
If you send me information or comments, and I don't respond to your email,
and/or I don't take it into account in the revised FAQ, don't hesitate to write
me again to see if I "lost" your email. I will try to include important
general information that is sent to me or respond to you in one way or another.
Overtime this FAQ will be the work of many people. Allow me to thank everyone
in advance who has and will help with the Coins list and this FAQ. I
appreciate your contributions. So far I've received alot of indirect help from
other FAQ editors by reading their FAQs and borrowing ideas. Many thanks to:
Doug Foxvog, Brian Marcotte, Bob Neidorff, Tim Pierce, Gene Spafford, Una
Smith. Coin netters whose posts I've consulted include: Joe Farrenkopf, Peter
Gaspar, Lloyd Lim, Mike Marotta, Henry Mensch, Mark Mitchell, Donovan Spafford,
John Sullivan.
Any feedback will be appreciated.
cobra.uni.edu MultiNet FTP user process 3.2(106)
Connection opened (Assuming 8-bit connections)
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1993_06.TXT;2 445 29-APR-1994 08:24 [ISCS,KENTEST] (RWED,RWED,,R)
1993_07.TXT;2 367 29-APR-1994 08:24 [ISCS,KENTEST] (RWED,RWED,,R)
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1993_11.TXT;2 141 29-APR-1994 08:25 [ISCS,KENTEST] (RWED,RWED,,R)
1993_12.TXT;2 251 29-APR-1994 08:25 [ISCS,KENTEST] (RWED,RWED,,R)
1994_01.TXT;2 207 29-APR-1994 08:25 [ISCS,KENTEST] (RWED,RWED,,R)
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1994_03.TXT;2 317 29-APR-1994 08:24 [ISCS,KENTEST] (RWED,RWED,,R)
Total of 3168 blocks in 11 files.
Professor of Information Systems
College of Business Administration
University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0125
9. Contributors.
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