Seminar Offers Paper Money Classes
Paper money classes offered at the American Numismatic Association's 2009 Summer
Seminar are designed for a wide range of interests and collector levels.
The educational event, held June 27-July 3 and July 4-10 in Colorado Springs,
Colo., features currency experts and offers students the chance to view some of
the country's finest paper money specimens.
Session I courses, scheduled for June 27-July 3, include the five-day course,
"Detection of Counterfeit World
Paper Money," by Joseph E. Boling, ANA governor and co-author of World
War II Remembered: History in Your
Hands.
The mini-seminar, "Collecting
United States Federal Savings Bonds," will be held from 6:30-9:30 p.m.
June 30. Instructing the course is Carlton F. "Fred" Schwan,
co-author of World War II Military Currency.
Session II courses, scheduled for July 4-10, include the five-day course,
"United States National Bank Notes," by Peter Huntoon, author of U.S.
Large Sized Bank Notes; and Gerome Walton, author of A History of Nebraska
Banking and Paper Money.
"Introduction to Paper Money" is another five-day course offered
during Session II. Leading the seminar is Wendell Wolka, columnist for The Numismatist and author of A History of
Nineteenth Century Ohio Obsolete Bank Notes and Scrip.
Boling and Schwan will lead a five-day course titled "Military Numismatics
Since 1930 and Advanced Military Numismatics." Glen Jorde, Paper Money
Guaranty manager, will head two-day course "Grading United States Paper
Money" July 6-7.
For the first time in seminar history, students can choose to take two two-day
classes or one five-day class during either session.
Source: numismaster.com