Minutes
of the Annual General Meeting of the Yorkshire Numismatic Society for
2017
The
AGM was held at 7:30pm on Thursday, 30th November 2017.
(1) Apologies
for absence: Anthony Conway, Richard Fynes, Frank Mellor, Lee Toone,
Peter Watson.
(2)
The minutes of the previous AGM were approved. There were no matters
arising.
(3)
The reports of the president is given below.
(4)
The accounts for the year to 30th
September 2017 were approved and adopted. The subscription will
remain unchanged at £15pa.
(6)
Other business: The President displayed the North Medal for services
to British numismatics, awarded at the British Numismatic Society’s
AGM, earlier in the week. Andy Woods received the Blunt Prize for the
encouragement
of younger scholars.
The
programme for 2018 was discussed over a glass of Chȃteau
Le Coin.
Prospective speakers include Andy Woods on the Wold Newton Hoard,
Richard Fynes ‘'Portraits
of a lady; the numismatics of the goddess Nana', William Mackay on
the pennies of Burgred. Emma Herbert-Davies has been working on the
Leeds University collection, and is prepared to speak on the
Winchester Cabinet. The President has suggested to her that this
should be a joint meeting with other local interest groups. Also,
Mike Roberts is in touch with a couple of prospective speakers.
The
meeting closed at 8:30pm.
President’s
Report, 2017
2017 was
dominated by the BANS Congress hosted by the Society in the Crown
Hotel, Harrogate, 7th-9th
April. A full report of this highly successful event was posted on
the Society’s blog. Otherwise, the programme consisted of talks
given at the major local coin fairs. These included:
20th
January, York Coin Fair, ‘Quite Devoid of Sense’. Tony Abramson
revealed his interpretation of one of the two inscriptions on the
York Gold shilling to read Paulinus Ep(iscopus), having been issued
627-633 by Paulinus the first Bishop of York, during King Edwin’s
reign, making it among the earliest of English coins.
17th
March, Harrogate Spring Fair, when Mary Garrison, of the Centre for
Medieval Studies, University of York, discussed the significance of
the Paulinus shilling.
21st
July, York Coin Fair, The Wonderful World of Paranumismatics, Mike
Roberts. The
presentation included the well- known series of trade tokens in the
17th, late 18th and early 19th centuries and also described and
explained, refreshment tickets, co-op checks, transport tokens,
imitation spade guineas, communion tokens, pit checks, works tallies
and local and prize medallions.
The
Society’s finances remain healthy.
David Lee reported
that the Society has 797 followers on Twitter, the Facebook page has
177 members and 400 likes. The flag-counter of original visits reads
17,253, and the total page views including repeat visitors reads
35,415.
Tony
Abramson, 13th
November 2017.
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