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Elaine Rexdale #94 Editor

EDITOR'S NOTES

Dear Fellow Collectors, When I was a child, I boldly, and without the assistant of any adult, joined the Mighty Mouse Fan Club. I'd gathered all the necessary information from watching the cartoons, sent in the required information and box tops knowing I was going to be the “coolest” kid on the block with this important membership. MORE

LET US KNOW HOW WE'RE DOING. If you have comments or observations to contribute about any portion of this please let me know. Of course you are always invited to send me anything for publication that may be of general interest to our members. Elaine

NEW MEMBERS

NEW MEMBERS:  Ronald Barend #389 - John Van Etten #390 - Philip Strong #391 - Phillip Flip Kuchler #392 - David Burke $393 - Steven Robinson #394 - Steve Saller #395 - Milton Malpica # 396 - Jeffrey Kelley #397 - Brett Peterson #398 - David Silver #399 - Thomas Squires #400 - Merlin Zeller #401 - Robert Otterson #402 - Ronald J. Darbyshire #403 - Richard Nowicki #404 - Steve Schooley #405 - Robert Greenwood #406 - Tom Friday #407 - James Renner #408 - Bonnie Adams #409 - John Occhi #410 - David A. Bennett #411 - Louis Gregoire #412 - George Roomian #413 - Jim Grim #414 - Jay Delpho #415 - Franc Connor #416 - Bobby L. Carpenter #417 - Michael Hunter #418 - John Boyer #419 - Peter Fritz #420 - Patrick J. O'Toole #421 - Michael T. James #422 - Warren Schliessman #423 - Luz E. Rivera #424 - Kathy McConnel #425 - Warren A. Sheaffer #426 - J. A. Wilbur #427.

~Members recruiting new members this quarter Cecil Starcher #1 10 ~ Steve Swingenstein #123 1 ~ Colin Goode #372 1 ~ Jerry Ferrell #93 5 ~ Elaine Rexdale #94 19 ~ Todd Lammers #206 2. Pennsylvania has taken over the lead with32 members shifting California to second with 30 members. Florida continues hold a tight grip on third at 25 members - Ohio stays in fourth place with 18 with Illinois in 5th place with 16 members. States with 0 members: Alaska - Delaware.

SECRETARY'S DESK

~Happy New Year everyone. I trust that Santa was good to you and that you emerged from all the New Year's Eve celebrations with clear vision; ready to tackle 2008. If we can survive all the campaigning and election hub-bub it ought to be a good year.

~Brett Peterson #398 sent me a link to Marl Evanier's website where I found THIS interesting piece of encased coin history. Thanks Brett.

~There are so many replaced coin encased being auctioned on eBay that we will no longer be featuring them in the newsletter. On November 27th there were 21 different ones, too many to post, so be warned. I see several of our members who ought to know the difference bidding on some of these pieces.

~I received the following from a visitor to our website. "Hello, I am offering $1,000.00 for a photo of the OUTSIDE of the original Harry Mann Chevrolet SHOWROOM in Los Angeles. If you can direct me to anyone, I will pay a finder's fee. Harry Mann Chevrolet was the world's largest Corvette dealer from 1953 to about the mid 1980's. I am interested in producing a model of the showroom, but cannot find any photos. It was a small showroom, with only room for one car, which was always a Corvette. Thank you, Allen Drucker." Mr. Drucker's email address is: ADPROD@aol.com

~We met our goal of 400 active members with time to spare during the last few days of December. We now have 15 new members towards our goal of 450 active members for this year. Since beginning in 2004 we have only lost 11 members to the best of our knowledge. We have several members who no longer receive our newsletter due to invalid e-mail address's.

~My Wish for You in 2008......"May peace break into your house and may thieves come to steal your debts. May the pockets of your jeans become magnets for $100 bills. May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips! May your clothes smell of success like smoking tires and may happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be those of joy. May the problems you had forget your home address! In simple words, May 2008 be the best year of your life!!!"

 POTPOURRI: With Jerry Ferrell #93

ECI's Information Table Provided By The Charleston Coin Club Show In November In Charleston, West Virginia.

The Banner Was Provided By Editor Elaine Rexdale #94

~We will have the 2007 State Quarter set and the 2007P Madison dollar available in a few weeks. Watch you email for the announcement. In March we will have the 2007 Canadian quarter set along with the 2008P Monroe dollar.

 eBay ACTION with Steve Swingenstein #123

What's In The Future For The Encased Cent Hobby? By: Derek McDonough #90

~As I was going threw my daily ritual of searching for encased cents on eBay, I discovered an auction for an encased penny that had been, again encased into a slab. It was a fairly common piece, a 1949 Rexall Encased Cent. The grading company labeled it as a "Token" and gave the piece a grade of "MS-68 RED".  MORE

E-CUBED By: Elaine Rexdale #94

~Rita Law: Life's road is full of little surprises. In 1999 I was surfing the Internet trying to find information regarding lucky pennies. I decided it would be the perfect way to advertise my fledgling publishing company, but of course I didn't have an idea of where to start. MORE

NEW ENCASED

MEET CHARLES BIANCO # 173 Elaine Rexdale #94

~Charlie Bianco lives in Louisville, Kentucky. In his earlier years he attended high school in Winsboro, South Carolina and later attended Central Texas College while he served in the Military. He is a United States Army Veteran.

Charlie is happily married to a wonderful woman. He has two adult daughters, who are married. He also has two grandsons and two granddaughters. To round out his family he has rescued three black cats.

He began his encased collection by collecting some Louisville and Kentucky encased pieces. When he learned about ECI, he joined! He doesn't have a favorite piece but he generally collects the Kentucky and ECI pieces. He doesn't let any other encased piece that catches his eye escape either.

He has been collecting coins for approximately 40 years. He's also been collecting transit tokens, Kentucky Trade tokens, Kentucky Casino Chips and Kentucky post cards for about 10-15 years. His encased collecting is relatively new ...only 5-7 years of age.

Charlie is a member of the American Vecturist Association, TAMS, The Token and Metal Society and National Token Collector's Association.

 The Worldwide Bi-metallic Collectors Club (WBCC) publishes the 600th issue of the "WBCC Newsmail"

~What began on September 14th, 1996, with the first WBCC Newsmail, has reached the milestone of its 600th Newsmail on February 9th 2008. This means 600 weeks in a row publishing information about Bi- and Tri-metallic coins, medals and tokens, unique in the Internet. The WBCC Newsmail is composed with help from members of the Worldwide Bi-metallic Collectors Club. MORE

 INQUIRIES TO ECI'S ANSWER MAN by  Jim Lawniczak #17

 ~ PONDERING by Todd Lammers #206

~What does 2008 have in store for we collectors of round monetary units and their off shoots, like encased coins? Will we be consumed with watching the daily rise and fall of gold and silver spot markets as has been the case for many of us in the last half 2007? It has been a mixed bag for sure. I've stopped adding new precious metal pieces to my collection because of the higher prices, which is a bummer, while at the same time I relish the thought of my holdings growing in value. The questions that keep nagging in the back of my brain is: Should I sell? When? If I do sell I surely need to avoid the mistake that many made during the last precious metal's upsurge by waiting too long to unload only to watch the market collapse. My plan is this. If gold hits and maintains the $1,000 an ounce threshold I sell. If silver hits and maintains the $25 an ounce target I sell. MORE

MY FAVORITE ENCASED by Steve Swingenstein #123

~The other day while looking through my collection of encased I discovered four favorites.  These, by far, were not the oldest, rarest, or most expensive but for me, ones with a special meaning.  I would like to share them with you. MORE

~ AND FINALLY with HP

1) When I die, I want to die like my grandfather--who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car." --Author Unknown

2) Advice for the day: If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: "Take two aspirin" and "Keep away from children." --Author Unknown

3) "Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar." --Drew Carey

4) "The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house." --Jeff Foxworthy

5) "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base." --Dave Barry

6) "Relationships are hard. It's like a full time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice. There should be severance pay, the day before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp." --Bob Ettinger

7) "My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'" --Paula Poundstone

8) "A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: "Duh." --Conan O'Brien

9) "Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God.... I could be eating a slow learner." --Lynda Montgomery

10) "I think that's how Chicago got started. Bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'" --Richard Jeni

11) "If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead." --Johnny Carson

12) "Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography." --Paul Rodriguez

13) "My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law." --Jerry Seinfeld

14) "Remember in elementary school, you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?" --Warren Hutcherson

15) "Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same." --Oscar Wilde

16) "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.. But I repeat myself."  --Mark Twain

17) "Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Afghanistan ." --A. Whitney Brown

18) "You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!'" --Dave Barry

19) Do you know why they call it "PMS"? Because "Mad Cow Disease" was taken. --Unknown, presumed deceased

20) "Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." --W. C. Fields

And now a real "groaner" from Steve Hughes #215

A man is dining in a fancy restaurant and there is a gorgeous redhead sitting at the next table. He has been checking her out since he sat down, but lacks the nerve to talk with her. Suddenly she sneezes, and her glass eye comes flying out of its socket toward the man. He reflexively reaches out, grabs it out of the air, and hands it back.
"Oh my, I am so sorry, " the woman says as she pops her eye back in place. "Let me buy your dinner to make it up to you,"  she says.
They enjoy a wonderful dinner together, and afterwards they go to the theater followed by drinks. They talk, they laugh, she shares her deepest dreams and he shares his. She listens after paying for everything, she asks him if he would like to  come to her place for a nightcap and stay for breakfast. They have a wonderful, wonderful time.
The next morning, she cooks a gourmet meal with all the trimmings. The guy is amazed. Everything had been SO incredible! "You know, "he said, "you are the perfect woman. Are you this nice to every guy you meet? "

"No, "she replies. . . "You just happened to catch my eye."

Told Ya!..........

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