WE HAVE A NEW NEWSLETTER:
Dino Millucci has published the second Issue of a new newsletter. You can get yours at:
ocalacc.ads@aol.com
This is an opportunity to list your extra items, see what else is for available, and see the ads sponsored by others. It's a new item for our club members, Northlake and other clubs to buy and sell. Business cards (one size ad is $10/year. Classifieds are free. Include items for sale, wanted, jobs, rides, etc.
Submit to ocalacc.ads@aol.com or fax to 866.476.9238
Ocala Coin Club membership is $10 per year! JOIN or RENEW your membership in the Ocala Coin Club. You can put coins in the auction, reserve seats on the bus for coin shows, and you can participate in all the club activities! See the Membership Chairman Jim Niccum at any monthly meeting. We have 101 members so far in 2019.
Our hobby thrives on our participation!
Click here to see Stevi B's menu.
We now have 101 members this year - and we have 19 former members who have not renewed their membership for 2019. Please renew your OCC Membership for this year!
Thank you! -Jim Niccum, Membership Chair.
Trent graduates from Crystal River High School with top honors!
Having served four years on the Superintendent's Student Advisory Council, earning a regular membership in the National Honor Society for grades 11 &12, and school Leadership Team, and all four years on "Blue Sea," the school's Spirit Club, Trent had a full and satisfying high school adventure!
Trent earned his varsity letter in Soccer (all 4 years), the school's golf team (all 4 years), and Tennis (all 4 years) and celebrated as a State Contender in 9th, 11th, & 12th. Trent ran Cross Country and lettered in both 11th & 12th, and Track in 11th.
More than an athlete, Trent was voted Mr. CRHS, "Most Likely to Brighten Your Day," "Most School Spirited," and Prom King! Not a small pedigree for a YN who also attended the ANA Summer Seminar in Colorado Springs!
Trent is headed to the University of North Florida in Jacksonville to study in the Sports field in Sports Business / Sports Management program. His Dad, Tony, his Mom, Karen, younger brother Jason, and grandparents, Harry & Chris Eck are so extremely proud of him. We join them in celebrating Trent's success and accomplishments.
To congratulate Trent personally: soccerguy@tampabay.rr.com
Click on APMEX name to see latest gold & silver values!
Ocala Coin Club is a proud member club of the
American Numismatic Association
Member Club for 50 years
- Florida United Numismatists Member Club
The Ocala Coin Club of Ocala, Florida is formed as an educational organization promoting the perpetuation of numismatic study and fellowship for dealers, collectors, educators, and others interested in coins, currencies, and exonumia.
We had 798 visitors to our web site in April!
Trent Stukes
Ocala Coin Club's Young Numismatist
Welcome to the Official Site of The Ocala Coin Club!
Remember our National Coin Week exhibit? Just think about what we can do next year! We have been asked to present our hobby in the display case at Freedom Library again next year!!! WE WERE A VERY POPULAR EXHIBIT! We have been recruited to display next March, 2020 for the whole month! So give us some suggestions for our next exhibit next year!
The Next Board Meeting of 2019: July 2nd,
at Stevi B's Pizza Buffet
3101 SW 34th Ave., Ocala 34477
6:00 p.m. order dinner on your own tab.
Meeting begins 6:30 p.m. All club members are welcome to join us for the Board meeting and everyone attending is expected to purchase food in exchange for use of the room without rent.
OUR MAY 28th MEETING LOCATION:
MOTEL 6 Conference Center
Route 27 & I-75, Exit 354
3810 Blitchton Road, Ocala Florida 34482
Bus Trip: Summer F.U.N. in Orlando
Thursday, July 11th; Cost: $10
Ride from either Motel 6 or Wildwood Plaza;
We have 55 seat-bus with people signing up each month. Make your reservation at OCC, North Lake, or Buffalo clubs.
Rewards of Merit
An Ephemeral Award & Collectible
During the Victorian Era, school children were given paper ephemeral rewards for good behavior, called a Reward of Merit. The top of the card usually reads "Reward of Merit," with the well behaved students name written below, followed by the signature of the teacher who issued the reward. A family may have saved these tokens of merit and recognition throughout the years. Often pasted into the popular Victorian era scrapbook albums to show a child's achievement, and performance at school, rewards were given by a teacher to a student for punctuality, attendance, proper and good right conduct, Sunday school work with younger students, and overall signs of improvement in the early 19th century one room schoolhouse curriculum.
In 1780, Robert Raikes (1735-1811) an editor of the Gloucester Journal, opened his first Sunday school in Massachusetts. He began a reward of merit system to maintain discipline, appropriate behavior and good and punctual attendance. It is said he walked the back streets of Gloucester one Sunday afternoon to find hundreds of idle, and often misbehaving children. He then had an idea to bring this young population into a better relationship with God and themselves. Within a short time, he opened four large schools in Gloucester, and when the Sunday school concept soon took hold, it spread like wildfire across a pioneer America.
18th century hand drawn, colored and had painted reward of merit cards from this early era are uncommon and highly prized, as most would be considered American folk art in nature. A majority of the rewards of merit we find today in our travels are printed. The earlier cards are usually religious in nature, with poetry, sermons and verses from the bible. Beginning in the early to mid 1800's, rewards of merit became less religious and pious in nature, gearing themselves more toward children's topics, games, child scenes, and patriotic flags and eagles, especially those printed at the time of the American Civil War.
There were also actual material objects for rewards, such as sterling medals, cups, spoons, knives, mugs, porcelain ABC dishes and pitchers, etc. These pieces are unusual and difficult to find, and are highly collectible today. Our program for May will be presented by Pete LaComb of Jacksonville, a collector of Rewards of Merit, Past President of the Greater Jacksonville Coin Club, and friend to several of us in the Ocala Coin Club. Come hear his presentation on Tuesday, May 28th, 2019.
Please keep us informed of any club member who is hospitalized, who is ill, or needs encouragement for health or other reasons. We were pleased to see Rich Selvar back and moving better, Linda Trout, and Fitz all back at their duties this month.
We continue to keep Rose Selvar in our thoughts as she is in rehab for knee replacement.
Thank you for keeping us informed of those hospitalized or ill. We share the joys and griefs of life with our members. If you have news or info, please Email the club.
News from F.U.N.: President Bob Hurst's mother passed away on April 21.
News from Jacksonville: Rick "Biscuit" Bousquett died April 4. Our prayers for his daughter Taylor.
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