Madison County Coin Club
of Huntsville, Alabama

For over twenty years, the Madison County Coin Club has served the north Alabama community by bringing numismatists together for the love of coin collecting. The Club strives to impart knowledge to its members through presentations and personal experiences. Through the sharing of knowledge and experiences, it enhances and enriches coin collecting for the numismatic community. Speaking of our members, we have a vast group of collectors who collect all types of United States coins, as well as, foreign coins. Many of our members collect coins from a certain era (19th century, for example), while others collect strictly modern coins. We also have members who collect only a certain type of coin (Seated Coins, Morgan Dollars, and Commemoratives, to name a few). Some members focus solely on foreign coins (for instance English, German, and Chinese) which can span many centuries. This diversification makes our club dynamic, providing something for every type of collector.



The club is a member of the American Numismatic Association (Member #C-195870 Region 20, AL & GA), Georgia Numismatic Association (GNA), and the Florida United Numismatists (FUN).

Madison County Coin Club members can access our lending library of more than 130 books, auction catalogs, and periodicals. The library features resources and materials on subjects including but not limited to U.S. and foreign coins, ancients, paper money, tokens, and medals. You can request materials by emailing the librarian, Ann Fulmer. Library materials are checked out to members for a four-week period. You can email the librarian to renew items for another four-week period (as long as no other member has submitted a hold on the item/items). To return your items simply bring them to one of our meetings.

You can search the online library catalog for available materials by using the following links:

Ancient Coins
Auction Catalogs
Currency
Coin Grading
Miscellaneous
Red Books
U.S. Coins
World Coins

The Officers of the Club serve in a variety of capacities and are elected annually at the November meeting.

The Board
President: Nathan Burrows	Vice President: Wayne Koger
Secretary: David Feeney	Treasurer: Mike Campbell
Board Member: Kurt Springfield	Board Member: Hal Fears
Board Member: Todd Hutto

Why was the club started?
I was transferred for work to Huntsville, AL and moved with my family from Virginia (living near Washington D.C.) to Madison, AL in April 2000. I had been coming to Huntsville since 1998 for business trips on a regular basis and had looked for a coin club in the area. I did attend some one-day coin shows held in Huntsville. At the local coin shows in Huntsville I asked about a coin club in the area, and a number of people told me there were none, and probably no interest. In Virginia I was an American Numismatic Association (ANA) District Delegate volunteer. I have been an active ANA volunteer in a number of positions since 1993. There was not an ANA member club in the area at the time, or even an active coin club. I contacted the ANA Headquarters in Colorado Springs and requested a search of ANA members within a 50-mile radius of Huntsville, sometime in late 2000. I was informed by the ANA that there were a little over 100 ANA members in my search area. I decided that with so many ANA members, there should be interest for a coin club, and I decided to start one. The club would have four main focuses:

• Education
  • MCCC Newsletter
  • Speakers
  • Displays, exhibits
• Fellowship
  • Refreshments at meeting
  • Pot-luck dinners
  • Gathering before and after the meeting
• Public Service
  • Outreach to schools, scouts, community groups
  • Respond to public inquires
• Collecting Opportunities
  • Club auction
  • Buying and selling at meeting
  • Non-members bring in items to sell

More can be found in Richard's book:
20 YEAR ANNIVERSARY HISTORY OF THE MADISON COUNTY COIN CLUB (2001-2021)

The Club has awarded Honorary Lifetime Membership to outstanding people that have made a 'major contribution' to the Madison County Coin Club.

The Club's current Honorary Members are:

• Mr. Charles Anderson
• Mr. Michael Turini

For our members, the club holds two auctions each year: one in June and the other in November. These two meetings feature a bourse and an auction. Our bourse opens at 5:15 p.m. and all members are welcome to display, trade, and sell coins at the bourse-tables. The auction starts at approximately 6:15 p.m. All members may bid on any of the lots in the auction. Members are encouraged to submit coins for the auction. Visitors may participate in the bourse and the auction as buyers only.

• We recommend that if you wish to participate in the auction as a seller you arrive at the meeting room at 5:15 or soon thereafter to present your consignments for inclusion in the auction.
• To proceed timely with the auction, we are not able to accept consignments after 6:00 pm on the day of the auction.
• As lots (along with completed auction slips) are presented by consigner, lot numbers are assigned in numerical order, beginning with “1,” by a member of the Auction Team (Auctioneer, Auction Record Keeper, or Runner).
• Only members may make consignments to the auction.
• Only numismatic and exomumistmatic items may be consigned for auction.
• The maximum number of lots to be auctioned per member is five (5). All consigned items must be appropriately packaged and described.
• Seller may indicate their assessment of the “condition” of the item in the “Description” block of the auction slip.
• The auction slip can be downloaded here.
  Do not write in the “Lot”, “Buyer” and “Sold” sections of the slip!
  Complete all other sections of the slip.

• Auction lots and their slips will be added to the auctioneer’s table and be available for viewing by potential bidders shortly after the consigner presents the lot and its completed auction slip to be included in the auction.
• We recommend that if you wish to participate in the auction as a buyer you arrive at the meeting room at 5:15 or soon thereafter to have the maximum amount of time to view and consider lots.
• The auction begins and viewing concurrently ends promptly at 6:15 pm.
• Once the auction begins, for the auction to proceed without undue delay no further inspection of items consigned for auction will be allowed; nor will the auction be delayed allowing potential bidders to research or discuss consigned items.
• Before the auction starts, if you are interested in bidding for an item, place a hatch mark “/” in the lower right corner of that lot’s auction slip. If there are no hatch marks on an auction slip by the time the auction begins, the lot will not be included in the auction.

• The Auctioneer (a MCCC Officer or Board Member) guides the bidding process.

• Bidders raise their hands or call out bids, with the Auctioneer determining the highest bid.
• Bid increments are at the discretion of the Auctioneer.
• The decision of the Auctioneer as to the winning bid and winning bidder is final.

• A Runner (an Officer or Board Member) will carry the lot to the winning bidder and take the payment from the winning bidder to the Auction Record Keeper (an Officer or Board Member).
• “No bid” items will be returned to the consignor by the Runner as soon as the items are identified as having no bid.

• Payment must be in cash.
• The Record Keeper will make change, and the Runner will carry the change to the winning bidder before the auction of the next item begins.

• The Auction Record Keeper keeps a record of sales.
• As soon as the winning bidder of a lot is determined by the Auctioneer, the lot auction slip is handed by the Auctioneer to the Auction Record Keeper to fill out the “Buyer” and “Sold” (winning bid amount) sections.
• During auction the Auction Record Keeper maintains control of proceeds from each lot; and, once received from the Auctioneer, control of the auction slip related to the lot.

• The auction ends at 7:00 pm whether there are lots remaining or not.
• Any lots remaining at the end of the auction will be returned to the consigner by the Runner in an orderly fashion by lot order number.

• As soon as the auction concludes, consigners whose lots were sold must present themselves to the Auction Record Keeper to receive the proceeds from the sale of each lot.
• The Auction Record Keeper will disperse proceeds in lot number order.

Buy-it-now items can appear on the auctioneer’s table; however, this will not be a part of the auction. Transactions can take place after the auction.

The Club's mailing address is:

Madison County Coin Club
P.O. Box 12242
Huntsville, AL 35815


Or send us an email.

The purpose of the coin club is to provide a forum for coin collectors, young and old, to have a fun time and share their knowledge and enjoyment of the hobby. Membership is open to all people who share an interest in collecting coins, medals, paper money, or any other numismatic material.

Members of the club enjoy a number of benefits:

• Eleven Monthly meetings
• Educational lectures at each meeting covering a range of numismatic topics
• Door prizes including a silver eagle are given away at each meeting
• Refreshments at each meeting
• Two Club Auctions per year
• Notices via email of club events
• Access to the club's extensive numismatic library
• Able to purchase club medals
• Help from a large pool of knowledgeable collectors to answer questions
• Camaraderie with fellow collectors who also have a very strong interest in collecting coins, tokens, banknotes, and exonumia!

We are keen to encourage new members with an interest in numismatics to join the club. We provide a warm and friendly welcome and are very keen to encourage those new to the study, collecting of coins, tokens or banknotes.


The club is a member of the American Numismatic Association (Member #C-195870 Region 20, AL & GA), Georgia Numismatic Association (GNA), and the Florida United Numismatists (FUN).

PRIVACY NOTICE:
Information provided by members in their application for membership to the Madison County Coin Club will not be provided to any thrid party.

Membership of the club is open to all persons with an interest in numismatics. Applications for membership are warmly welcomed from individuals. The club is financed by an annual membership which are due in January each year.

MEMBERSHIP RATES
Current membership rates are as follows:
Regular membership	$15
Senior membership	$12
YN and Spouse	$5

To apply, please fill out the membership form.

You can bring the form to one of our club meetings or mail it to:

Madison County Coin Club
P.O. Box 12242
Huntsville, AL 35815

We meet at the
South Huntsville Public Library
7901-L Bailey Cove Rd Se
Huntsville, AL 35802

Typically meetings are on the third Monday of the month from 6:00-7:30 with the doors opening at 5:30. If the library is closed that day for a holiday, we meet on the fourth Monday of the month. You can check our program schedule for this year's meeting dates.

2025 Madison County Coin Club Program Refreshments and Programs Schedule
Meeting Date	Refreshments	Program
January 27	Harold Fears	Randy Partin Civil War Dog Tags
February 17	Shane and Laura Armstrong	Everyone Show and Tell
March 17	Wayne Koger	Todd Hutto Counterfeit Coins
April 21	Pat Douglas/George Steele	Kurt Kelley Part 1- An Unissued Confederate War Bond With a Story to Tell Part 2- The Conception of the Lincoln Cent
May 19	Ann Fulmer	Chad Thrasher Disappearing Denominations; Which Ones and Why?
June 16	Potluck, Bourse Night, and Auction
July 14	Aaron Wales	Aaron Wales TBD
August 18	TBD	Everyone Show and Tell
September 15	Doug Glandon	Nathan Burrows TBD
October 20	Keith George	David Hollander The Wonderful World of Banknote Collecting
November 17	Thanksgiving Potluck, Bourse Night, and Auction
December - No Meeting

If you can't make it to our meeting in person, you can visit with us via our YouTube Channel. The name of the club's channel is MCCC Meeting and the URL is https://www.youtube.com/@MCCCMeeting-of3qx/streams .

The MCCC Newsletter started with the first club meeting with the purpose being to keep the member informed and to let other hobbyist know about the club's activities. Now, the newsletter include articles and stories written by members detailing their numismatic adventures, learnings, and mishaps! The MCCC Newsletter has won numerous American Numismatic Association publication awards including Outstanding Local Numismatic Publications and Outstanding Electronic Numismatic Publication. The club welcomes articles, notes, and stories for publication in our newsletter. If you are interested please contact the club's newsletter editor.

You can read our current newsletter or read our previous newsletters going back to 2001.

Click here to read the index of all our articles from 2018 to date.

From time to time the club will make available presentations from the monthly meetings. Click the link to view the list of presentations.
http://mccc.anaclubs.org/presentations/

Read Richard Jozefiak's Book:
20 YEAR ANNIVERSARY HISTORY OF THE MADISON COUNTY COIN CLUB (2001-2021)

In 2011 the Madison County Coin Club celebrated its ten year anniversary and to mark this occasion in its history a special medal was commissioned by the club. With a mintage of 50 sets, the medals were issued in the following metals:

• Bronze
• Golden Alloy
• Copper-Nickel

The Club's 2011 10th Anniversary Medal
The Club's 10th Anniversary Medal (click on image to enlarge)

In 2021 the Madison County Coin Club celebrated its twenty year anniversary. With a mintage of 25 sets, the medals were issued in the following metals:

• Bronze
• Golden Alloy
• Copper-Nickel
• Silver

The Club's 2021 20th Anniversary Medal
The Club's 20th Anniversary Medal (click on image to enlarge)

In early September of 2023, the club decided to have Daniel Carr, proprietor of the Moonlight Mint of Loveland, Colorado, produce silver and copper medals for the club. The club had a total of 35 silver and 50 copper medals minted.

The Club's 2024 Medal
The Club's 2024 Medal (click on image to enlarge) All medals are 39mm in diameter. The silver medal had edge lettering of "ONE TROY OZ .999 SILVER" and a serial number (between "01" through "35").

The Club's 2025 Medal
The Club's 2025 Medal (click on image to enlarge) All medals are 39mm in diameter. The silver medal had edge lettering of "ONE TROY OZ .999 SILVER" and a serial number (between "01" through "40").

For 2025, the club had three medals minted by Daniel Carr of the Moonlight Mint. They were:

• a one troy ounce .999 silver medal with a serial number on the edge,
• a copper medal, and
• a brass medal. This medal was only available to club members as part of a three medal set.

A total of 40 silver, 60 copper, and 20 brass medals were minted.

The Club's 2025 Medal
The Club's 2025 Medal (click on image to enlarge) All medals are 39mm in diameter. The silver medal had edge lettering of "ONE TROY OZ .999 SILVER" and a serial number (between "01" through "40").

For 2025, our club will have three medals minted by Daniel Carr of the Moonlight Mint. They are:

• a one troy ounce .999 silver medal with a serial number on the edge,
• a copper medal, and
• a brass medal. This medal is only available to club members as part of a three medal set.

All the medals are 39 mm in size. The issue price of the silver and copper medals has not changed from last year. The cost and mintages are:

• Silver: $100 with a maximum mintage of forty.
• Copper: $15 with a maximum mintage of sixty. These are sold out.
• Three medal set including the brass medal: $150 with a mintage of 20. The three medal sets are sold out.

For more information please contact the newsletter editor.