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NEWSLETTER OF THE ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC JUNE2015
May 2015 minutes amp the treasurerrsquos report are on
the back are on the back of the printed
version (but not on the pdf edition)
The NEWSLETTER OF THE
ORANGE COIN AND STAMP
CLUB INCORPORATED
Web page wwwphilasorgauorange
OUR CLUBrsquoS JUBILEE
Year
The inaugural meeting of the Club was held at Allcorns Star Ballroom (later the New Patmos Restaurant) on 29 July 1965 23 people attended Of these 23 Col Davidson Eileen Davidson and Ray Norman are still members
WHAT A GOOD DAY
ORANGE STAMPS amp COINS
AUCTION ON SATURDAY
13th
JUNE 2015 ndash
Orange Stamps amp Coins held its 3rd annual postal amp public auction in the Kenna Hall on Saturday 13th June 2015
The stamp part of the auction attracted 32 room bidders
910 stamp amp numismatic lots were on offer Viewing ran from 9am through to just before
30 JUNE 2015
ISSUE 160
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the auction which started at 130pm There were 31 room bidders and 45 postal bidders Your editor was told that about 50 of the stamp lots sold on the day and about one-third of the coinbanknote lots went too In the morning there were up to 15 potential bidders lined up at the viewing tables looking through the offerings
All of the attendees spoken to seemed very happy with the lots they purchased Everyone spoke of having a great day
A number of Club members assisted A major reason why they helped was that the auction provided an opportunity to acquire new material for their collections ndash without them having to travel to Sydney or Canberra Having an auction like this in Orange ndash even if it was not a Club one ndashprovides a unique facility to us all ndash and is deserving of our support
Prospective bidders viewing the auction lots in the morning
OUR NEXT CLUB lsquoNIGHTrsquo
MEETING AFTER THIS
ONE IS ON TUESDAY 28th
JULY 2015
THIS IS FOLLOWED BY
OUR 2015 ANNUAL
GENERAL MEETING
The next meeting after this one is on Tuesday 28th July 2015 at 730pm
Straight after the monthly meeting we will be holding our annual general meeting All of the positions in the Club will be declared vacant at that annual general meeting and elections of officers will take place For our Club to continue to function properly there are a whole range of positions that need filling Donrsquot be frightened to put up your hand for one If the same people keep on running for office year in year out we are in danger of becoming ldquostalerdquo On annual general meeting nights we donrsquot have displays and auction lots are discouraged The Clubrsquos by-laws require that office holders prepare annual reports Ideally these could be written and included in the documents for the AGM
THIS NOTICE IS FORMAL
NOTICE OF THE 2015
ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING
After about 8pm 28th
JULY
2015 at the Orange Community
Services amp Information Centre
Your $5 membership for the
2015-2016 year will be due
immediately after the annual
general meeting
The Club always meets on the last Tuesday of
each month except in December at the
Orange Community Information amp Services Centre (Woolworthrsquos Car Park side door) 79 Kite St Orange There is no access from the Kite St front door
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TROUBLES WITH ORANGE
COUNCIL ampTHE CULTURAL
CENTRE VENUE
Orange Councilrsquos manager Administration amp Governance have written to us in a letter dated 6th June 2015 advising that from 1 July the hire charge for the Orange Cultural Centre will be $10 an hour
We currently have a booking at the Cultural Centre for the first Saturday of each month for our monthly Orange Coin amp Stamp Fair Our current booking is from 8am to 4pm Thatrsquos 8 hours In 2014-5 and in previous years we paid approximately $10 for each day
We were advised in the letter that we will be invoiced at the new rate $80 per day from 1 July
The matter was discussed by the participants at the Fair on 6th June There was agreement that we might cut the hours back to four ie from 930am to 130pm That would cost us $40 a session We used to pay $30 plus $3 GST in the Quinnrsquos Arcade $40 is not much of an increase on that We will probably not make a booking for January
A reply to Council will be tabled at the June 30 meeting
OUR NEXT MIDDAY MEETING IS
ON MONDAY 13th
JULY 2015
Our next lunchtime meeting will be at midday on Monday 13th July 2015 We meet in the Orange Community Information amp Service Centre Kite Street Access is from Woolworthrsquos car park or the Kite St entrance
If you havenrsquot been before please come along Itrsquos an opportunity for swapping for asking questions and for information
OUR NEXT MONTHLY ORANGE
COIN amp STAMP FAIR IS IN THE
ORANGE CULTURAL CENTRE
ON SATURDAY 4th
JULY 2015
Our next monthly Coin amp Stamp Fair will be held on Saturday 4th July 2015 in the main hall of the Orange Cultural Centre in Sale St
The Fair runs from 930am till about 130 pm
The venue for our monthly fair is the Orange Cultural Centre It is held on the 1st Saturday of each month
The Orange Cultural Centre is the white-stuccoed building with trees out the front on the right as you enter the Woolworthrsquos car park from Sale St Harris Farm fruit market is on the left
ITEMS FOR THIS NEWSLETTER
AND CORRESPONDENCE TO
THE CLUB
Items for this newsletter need to be posted to the Secretary at the Clubrsquos postal address -PO Box 324 ORANGE 2800 They can always also be e-mailed to - ddolstrabigpondnetau
-Or phone 63 614 872 The opinions expressed in this Newsletter are those of the editor amp are not necessarily the Orange Coin amp Stamp Club Inc
THANKS TO EXPO 2015
SPONSORS - PLEASE SUPPORT
THEM IN RETURN
Australian Stamp Professional magazine
Dot Richards for the main raffle prizes
Seven Seas Stamps
MR Roberts amp the Wynyard Coin Centre
Jane Silvester of East Orange LPO
Orange Odeon5 Cinemas
Community Radio Station 1075 FM
DEALERS WHO ATTENDED
OUR 2015 EXPO ndash KEEP
SUPPORTING THEM
- Page - 4 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
A Byrne Coins (Tony Byrne
from Canberra ndash PO Box 53 MITCHELL ACT 2911 ph (02) 6255 4044)
AAA Stamps (Steve Burton
from the Central Coast ph 0432 540 760 email aaastampsyahoocomau World-wide stamps bought amp sold
Phil amp Win Morehouse
Bankstown NSW Ph (02) 9707 4087 email wmorehousenetspacenetau
Wynyard Coin Centre 7
Hunter Arcade Sydney 2000 ndash Lower Concourse Wynyard Railway Station Ph (02) 9299 2047 amp Fax (02) 9290 3710Their e-mail address is saleswynyardcoinscomau
Orange Stamps and Coins
(Howard Lyons) PO Box 9288 ORANGE NSW 2800 Phfax (02) 6362 2368 E-mail - howardlyonsbigpondcom
DATES FOR 2015
Orange Coin amp Stamp Club monthly
meeting 730pm Tuesday 30th June at the Community Info Centre Kite St
PHILAS Auction 121 Saturday 11th July
2015 at PHILAS House 17 Brisbane St Surry Hills
Northern Suburbs Philatelic Society A
Winterrsquos Day with Stamps Dougherty Centre Victor St Chatswood Sat 25th July 2015
Orange Coin amp Stamp Club Annual General
meeting amp monthly meeting 730pm
Tuesday 28th July at the Community Info Centre Kite St
Orange Coin amp Stamp Club monthly meeting 730pm Tuesday 25th August at the Community Info Centre Kite St
Petersham SCDAA Stamp amp Coin Super Fair Petersham Town Hall 107 Crystal St Petersham Sunday 30th August 2015
BATHEX 2015 Bathurst Bicentenary
Collectables Gem amp Mineral Exhibition Bathurst Showground 26th-27th September 2015
Orange Coin amp Stamp Club Spring Fair 2015 and Auction on Saturday 17th October at the Kenna Hall 90 Hill St Orange 9 to 5
ANDA APTA Show Lower Town Hall
Sydney 1oth amp 11th October 2015
Campbelltown Clubrsquos Fisherrsquos Ghost
Stamp Fair Civic Hall Campbelltown Sunday 1st November 2015
Adelaide STAMPEX 2014 Modified
National Stamp Exhibition 10-12 October Drill Hall Torrens Parade Ground King William Road Adelaide
Wagga Stamp amp Coin Fair 21st amp 22nd
November 2015 at Sturt Primary School 60 White Avenue Kooringal Wagga Wagga
Petersham SCDAA Stamp amp Coin Super Fair Petersham Town Hall 107 Crystal St Petersham Sunday 29th November 2015
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THE NEXT LUNCH-TIME MEETING is at midday Monday
13th July 2015 at the Orange Community Information amp Services
Centre 79 Kite St Itrsquos a great opportunity to swap stamps No theme helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip
Thanks to Australian Stamps Professional Magazine for their kind donation of back copies for
our EXPO 2015 Pick the current issue up at your newsagent or email infozoicomau Most
Orange newsagents now keep it
wwwaustralianstampspr
Hunter Arcade Sydney 2000 ndash Lower Concourse Wynyard Railway Station Ph (02) 9299 2047 amp Fax
(02) 9290 3710Their e-mail address is saleswynyardcoinscomau
The Wynyard Coin Centre was a sponsor of our Expo 2015 We thank them for their kind donation of books for our library and the ldquosample bagsrdquo for Expo visitor
helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip
Thanks also to
Orangersquos ODEON5 Cinema for their kind donation of prizes for the Expo 2015 youth competitions
helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip
ORANGE STAMPS and COINS PO Box 9288 Orange2800
Email howardlyonsbigpondcom
FOR ALL YOUR ACCESSORIES Available at the Clubrsquos monthly fair in the Orange Cultural Centre
I would like to thank all those members of the Club who gave up their time to provide assistance with the running of the Orange Stamps and Coins Auction 3 it was indeed very much appreciated I believe an event such as this would not take place if it wasnt for your help and support I do hope that I can again call on your services again next year when we shall endeavour to do Auction 4 Howard
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ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUBrsquoS
2015 SPRING FAIR
amp auction
In the KENNA HALL 90 Hill Street Orange
DISPLAYS OF COINS amp STAMPS INFORMATION VALUATIONS CLUB STAMP amp COIN DEALERS amp
AUCTION
SATURDAY 17th October 2015 9am to 5pm
Admission $2 accompanied kids free
Stamp amp Coin Auction starts at 230pm
Auction lot viewing from 9am to 1230pm
MEMBERS - THE CLUB NEEDS YOUR LOTS FOR THE SPRING FAIR AUCTION ON SATURDAY 17th OCTOBER 2015 START PREPARING YOUR LOT DESCRIPTIONS Contact the auction co-ordinator Col Davidson
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Orange Stamps amp Coinsrsquo auction in progress on 13 June 2015
Ray Norman talking to Tony Richards on the Club table at Expo 2015 April 2015
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ORANGE STAMPS and COINS PO Box 9288 Orange
Email howardlyonsbigpondcom Phone 6362 2368
2015 ANZAC Day $2 Red Uncirculated Australian Decimal Coin
plus the latest Royal Australian Mint issues
Still in stock and available Saturday July 4th at the Cultural Centre -----------------------------
Presently awaiting the arrival of the
2015 ANZACS Remembered 20c amp $1 War
Heroes ndash Set of 15 coins
Direct from the Royal Australian Mint - RRP ( to be advised)
- Page - 9 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
MINT UNCIRCULATED
Time to change - 1
A recent article in the CWD referred to money presumably notes and coins being
replaced by debit and credit cards This is close to reality when shopping for several
items or expensive ones but I canrsquot imagine using a card for buying small items such as
the CWD especially for sums less than our current smallest note of $5 Even now many
businesses have minimum limits before debit cards are acceptable The collection plate
on Sundays would be comparatively lean if no coins were available
Time to change - 2
In the past week or so I have seen a TV ad asking for donations of 5c pieces to fund
foreign aid charities Suggestions have been around for a while that this denomination is
destined to follow the 1c and 2
c coins into extinction No doubt itrsquos time to start rounding
up the prices to the nearest 10c A quick check of my pocket revealed a lonely 5
c among
mostly 20c and $2 coins
Lawrence Sherwin
Lawrence Sherwinrsquos display of coinage of Richard III won the numismatic competition at the Clubrsquos 2015 Expo in April
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The First Caliphate
When the prophet Mohammed died in AD 630 his followers elected a new leader of the Moslems with the title of Caliph Arabic for successor combining the roles of civil and religious leader A century later the Caliphate had expanded from Arabia into an empire that stretched from Spain across North Africa through the Middle East as far as the border with modern India This vast empire had a short lifetime as a result of Islamic factional politics and consisted of little more than modern Iraq when obliterated by the Mongols in AD 1258
The Caliphate at about its greatest extent showing the location of some mints (Wikipedia) The early coinage of the Caliphate was copied from Roman (Byzantine) prototypes in gold and copper and Iranian types in silver Purely Islamic types took nearly 50 years to appear and were distinguished by purely epigraphic (non-figural) types Early issues of the Caliphate showed the mint and date but were otherwise anonymous The denominations struck by the Caliphs and most Islamic states were the gold dinar the silver dirhem and copper fals With the passing years as the Caliphate disintegrated into a multitude of warring Islamic states many with leaders calling themselves caliph it became necessary for the true Caliph to be identified on the coins as the responsible issuer
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EARLY ISLAMIC Gold Dinar (20mm 427 g) Dated AH 83 (703 AD)
LATER ISLAMIC Gold Dinar (24mm 598 g) Tustar min al-Ahwaz mint Extra inscription was necessary to identify the caliph Dated AH 325 (AD 9367)
Caliphate Early silver dirhem closely modelled on Iranian (Persian) types (32mm 407 g) Kirman mint Dated AH 67 (AD 6867)
Political instability was as much a feature of the first caliphate as of the current one The caliph al-Muntasir (AD 861-862)
murdered his predecessor and was himself murdered after a reign of six months Silver dirhem (19mm 288 g) Surra man rarsquoa (Samarra) mint Dated AH 248 (AD 862)
Later Caliphate Silver Dirhem (23mm 297 g) of non-pictorial type Er-Rafiqat (Rakka) mint Dated AH 290 (AD 9023
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The early copper coinage of the Caliphate was modelled very closely on Roman (Byzantine) types This fals has replaced the emperorrsquos name with that of the mint Damascus written in Greek characters Otherwise it is a close copy of a Roman follis even retaining crosses in the design Circa 680s AElig Fals (20mm 415 g) Damascus mint
Copper fals (185mm 307 g) Halab (Aleppo) mint Struck circa 690s The cross soon disappeared from the fals and the image of the emperor was replaced by that of the caliph The inscriptions were now entirely in Arabic
Pictorial designs disappeared altogether within a few years because of Islamic disapproval of images which might be deemed idolatry This fals (17mm 496 g) struck in Seville Spain in AH 108 (AD 7267) is typical of subsequent copper coinage
with inscriptions only
Images courtesy of CNG
Lawrence Sherwin
A 1938 AIR MAIL FROM NEW ZEALAND TO SAN
FRANCISCO via AMERCAN SAMOA AND HAWAII
Kingsford-Smith was the first person to fly across the Pacific in the Southern Cross in 1938
Ten years later Pan American Airways had an ambitious plan to commence an air mail service from San
Francisco to New Zealand Juan Trippe and his investors wanted originally to fly the lucrative and
prestigious air mail and passenger route across the Atlantic Ocean but they could not get permission In
1934 they had acquired two Martin M130 and three Sikorsky S-42 clippers ndash 42 million worth of aircraft
They needed an ocean to cross ndash so they chose the Pacific
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Their first successful route was from San Francisco to Manila in the American territory of the Philippines
Captain Edwin Musick set off on the first survey flight on 17 April 1935 He replaced the passenger cabin
with auxiliary fuel tanks In June the S-42 flew from Hawaii to Midway In August it flew to Wake Island
and by October it flew across the Pacific to Guam
Pan Amrsquos first route across the Pacific with connections to Macau Hong Kong Canton Shanghai amp Beijing
The first regular mail amp passenger carrying Pan Am clipper flight arrived in manila on 29 November 1935
under the command of Captain Ed Musick The passenger fare was US$95
After that Martin M130 clippers left San Francisco every Wednesday for Manila Later it connected with
another Pan American flying boat service to Hong Kong and Macau ndash until the disappearance of the Hawaii
Clipper in 1938 when Pan Am was left with only two Martin clippers The service to Manila had to be
reduced to three times a month
Captain Musick arriving in Honolulu in a Sikorsky S-42 Clipper after the first Pacific survey flight April
1935
With delays in setting up an Atlantic service Pan Am began surveying new routes to New Zealand
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In March 1937 Captain Ed Musick took to survey a route using a landing on Kingman Reef and at Pago
Pago in American Samoa These were the only spots were America had any sovereignty This route was
dangerous and probably ill-advised The British amp French-governed colonies did not give approval to Pan
Am set up flying boat bases
The first official airmail was flown between Auckland and San Francisco on 2 January 1938 The plane the
Samoan Clipper was a Sikorsky S-42B flying boat The pilot again was Ed Musick The plane had
landed in Auckland on 26 December after a journey from San Francisco but no air mail had been carried
from the United States
The plane left Auckland on 2 January with a hold full of mail (but no passengers) and arrived at Pago Pago
in American Samoa on 1 January (because of the International Date Line) It arrived in Hawaii on 3 January
and the mail was transferred to a Martin flying boat operating on the regular Pan Am Manila to San
Francisco Route The mail arrived in San Francisco on 6 January The rate to both the US and the UK was
46d
lsquoSamoa Clipperrsquo in Auckland Harbour very-late-December 1937 The Centaurus is behind
Earlier in 1937 the Centaurus had inaugurated the England to Australia air route for Imperial
Airways
- Page - 15 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Captain Ed Musick and his entire crew were tragically killed a fortnight later on 11 January 1938 on the
return flight to New Zealand The SB42B flying boat developed an oil leak after taking off form Pago Pago
The aircraft jettisoned fuel in an attempt to lighten the aircraft as they attempted to return to Pago Pago The
fuel ignited as vapours built up in the wing structure and the plane exploded in flame The service was
terminated and not restored until it 1940 Then the US Army Air Service needed to provide a service across
the Pacific because German invasions in Europe had cut off the direct route from Australia amp New Zealand
to the USA and the United Kingdom
Two covers flown on the first Auckland to San Francisco air mail service (The back of one and the
front of another)
- Page - 16 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
WORLD TOILET DAY STAMPS
One of our members brought along to our last meeting a colour photocopy of a letter
from Samoa to the Uniting Church in Orange showing a $2 World Toilet Day stamp
World Toilet Day is a big United Nations event Much of the Third World is ravaged
by disease because of the inadequate provision of proper toilets Around 3000
children die every day because of poor sanitation
On 26 November 2014 Samoa issued a stamp to demonstrate the importance hygiene
and sanitation in Samoa It was launched by the Deputy Prime Minister Fonote Laufo
who also opened two Garden Toilets He acknowledged the help of the European
Union and the World Bank in providing better sanitation in Samoa
- Page - 17 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The Republic of San Marino has also produced World Toilet Day stamps-
The 2015 issue has an appropriate postmark
It is not a subject that Australia Post has been big on
- Page - 18 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Correspondence list for Orange Coin amp Stamp Club meeting of 30 June2015
Item Date in Action
1
2 Letter from Orange
Councilrsquos
Community Info amp
Services Centre of
25 May re info for
Community
Information Guide
28 May 2015 Replied to on 28 May
updating the Clubrsquos
information for 2015-
2016
3 The Wagga Stamp
Club (Inc)
Newsletter for June
2015 9pp
29 May 2015
4 Bathurst Stamp
Coin Collectables amp
Lapidary Club
Newsletter for May amp
June 2015
By e-mail on 31 May
2015
5 Queensland
Numismatic Society
Inc Monthly
Magazine for May
2015
4 June 2015
6 PHILAS News for
June 201 3 copies
4 June 2015 Copies to publicity officer
amp to president on 6 June
Contains a half-page
report on Expo
7 MR Robertsrsquo
NUMI$NEWS for
June 2015
4 June 2015
8 Letter from Orange
Council re Hire Fees
for Cultural Centre
dated 1 June 2015
5 June 2015 Discussed at Monthly Fair
on 6 June 2015 Draft
reply has been prepared
For discussion
9 Gladstone amp District
Philatelic Societyrsquos
The Gladstone Bag
for 10 June 2015
5 June 2015
10 Australian Philatelc
Traders lsquoAssociation
APTA 2015
Yearbook 1 copy
9 June 2015
- Page - 19 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
28pp
11 Leonard G Morel of
leonxnlizzycomau
Banknote list amp Coin
list for June 2015 2
copies of each
11 June 2015
12 Statement from
Prime Media Group
Pty Ltd dated 8 June
15 June 2015 For treasurer
13 Maitland amp District
Coin Clubrsquos
Newsletter for July
2015
22 June 2015
14 Bathurst C S C
amp Lap Clubrsquos
Bathex 2015
Exhibition and
Bathurst Centenary
Information e-
Newsletter Issue 10
May 2015
By e-mail on 23 June
2015
Some hard copies made amp
to go out as a pdf e-mail
attachment
15 Australian Stamps
Professional magazine for June-
July 2015
26 June 2015
16 Tamworth
Philatelic Society
Inc Newsletter for
July amp August 2015
29 June 2015
17 PHILAS Auction
Catalogue for
Auction 121 Saturday 11 July 2015
26 June 2015
- Page - 20 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
AAA Stamps tables at Expo 2015 in April Steve Burton is talking to Phil Morehouse
(on the left) and another customer
Tony Byrne at Expo 2015 in April setting up his tables
- Page - 2 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
the auction which started at 130pm There were 31 room bidders and 45 postal bidders Your editor was told that about 50 of the stamp lots sold on the day and about one-third of the coinbanknote lots went too In the morning there were up to 15 potential bidders lined up at the viewing tables looking through the offerings
All of the attendees spoken to seemed very happy with the lots they purchased Everyone spoke of having a great day
A number of Club members assisted A major reason why they helped was that the auction provided an opportunity to acquire new material for their collections ndash without them having to travel to Sydney or Canberra Having an auction like this in Orange ndash even if it was not a Club one ndashprovides a unique facility to us all ndash and is deserving of our support
Prospective bidders viewing the auction lots in the morning
OUR NEXT CLUB lsquoNIGHTrsquo
MEETING AFTER THIS
ONE IS ON TUESDAY 28th
JULY 2015
THIS IS FOLLOWED BY
OUR 2015 ANNUAL
GENERAL MEETING
The next meeting after this one is on Tuesday 28th July 2015 at 730pm
Straight after the monthly meeting we will be holding our annual general meeting All of the positions in the Club will be declared vacant at that annual general meeting and elections of officers will take place For our Club to continue to function properly there are a whole range of positions that need filling Donrsquot be frightened to put up your hand for one If the same people keep on running for office year in year out we are in danger of becoming ldquostalerdquo On annual general meeting nights we donrsquot have displays and auction lots are discouraged The Clubrsquos by-laws require that office holders prepare annual reports Ideally these could be written and included in the documents for the AGM
THIS NOTICE IS FORMAL
NOTICE OF THE 2015
ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING
After about 8pm 28th
JULY
2015 at the Orange Community
Services amp Information Centre
Your $5 membership for the
2015-2016 year will be due
immediately after the annual
general meeting
The Club always meets on the last Tuesday of
each month except in December at the
Orange Community Information amp Services Centre (Woolworthrsquos Car Park side door) 79 Kite St Orange There is no access from the Kite St front door
- Page - 3 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
TROUBLES WITH ORANGE
COUNCIL ampTHE CULTURAL
CENTRE VENUE
Orange Councilrsquos manager Administration amp Governance have written to us in a letter dated 6th June 2015 advising that from 1 July the hire charge for the Orange Cultural Centre will be $10 an hour
We currently have a booking at the Cultural Centre for the first Saturday of each month for our monthly Orange Coin amp Stamp Fair Our current booking is from 8am to 4pm Thatrsquos 8 hours In 2014-5 and in previous years we paid approximately $10 for each day
We were advised in the letter that we will be invoiced at the new rate $80 per day from 1 July
The matter was discussed by the participants at the Fair on 6th June There was agreement that we might cut the hours back to four ie from 930am to 130pm That would cost us $40 a session We used to pay $30 plus $3 GST in the Quinnrsquos Arcade $40 is not much of an increase on that We will probably not make a booking for January
A reply to Council will be tabled at the June 30 meeting
OUR NEXT MIDDAY MEETING IS
ON MONDAY 13th
JULY 2015
Our next lunchtime meeting will be at midday on Monday 13th July 2015 We meet in the Orange Community Information amp Service Centre Kite Street Access is from Woolworthrsquos car park or the Kite St entrance
If you havenrsquot been before please come along Itrsquos an opportunity for swapping for asking questions and for information
OUR NEXT MONTHLY ORANGE
COIN amp STAMP FAIR IS IN THE
ORANGE CULTURAL CENTRE
ON SATURDAY 4th
JULY 2015
Our next monthly Coin amp Stamp Fair will be held on Saturday 4th July 2015 in the main hall of the Orange Cultural Centre in Sale St
The Fair runs from 930am till about 130 pm
The venue for our monthly fair is the Orange Cultural Centre It is held on the 1st Saturday of each month
The Orange Cultural Centre is the white-stuccoed building with trees out the front on the right as you enter the Woolworthrsquos car park from Sale St Harris Farm fruit market is on the left
ITEMS FOR THIS NEWSLETTER
AND CORRESPONDENCE TO
THE CLUB
Items for this newsletter need to be posted to the Secretary at the Clubrsquos postal address -PO Box 324 ORANGE 2800 They can always also be e-mailed to - ddolstrabigpondnetau
-Or phone 63 614 872 The opinions expressed in this Newsletter are those of the editor amp are not necessarily the Orange Coin amp Stamp Club Inc
THANKS TO EXPO 2015
SPONSORS - PLEASE SUPPORT
THEM IN RETURN
Australian Stamp Professional magazine
Dot Richards for the main raffle prizes
Seven Seas Stamps
MR Roberts amp the Wynyard Coin Centre
Jane Silvester of East Orange LPO
Orange Odeon5 Cinemas
Community Radio Station 1075 FM
DEALERS WHO ATTENDED
OUR 2015 EXPO ndash KEEP
SUPPORTING THEM
- Page - 4 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
A Byrne Coins (Tony Byrne
from Canberra ndash PO Box 53 MITCHELL ACT 2911 ph (02) 6255 4044)
AAA Stamps (Steve Burton
from the Central Coast ph 0432 540 760 email aaastampsyahoocomau World-wide stamps bought amp sold
Phil amp Win Morehouse
Bankstown NSW Ph (02) 9707 4087 email wmorehousenetspacenetau
Wynyard Coin Centre 7
Hunter Arcade Sydney 2000 ndash Lower Concourse Wynyard Railway Station Ph (02) 9299 2047 amp Fax (02) 9290 3710Their e-mail address is saleswynyardcoinscomau
Orange Stamps and Coins
(Howard Lyons) PO Box 9288 ORANGE NSW 2800 Phfax (02) 6362 2368 E-mail - howardlyonsbigpondcom
DATES FOR 2015
Orange Coin amp Stamp Club monthly
meeting 730pm Tuesday 30th June at the Community Info Centre Kite St
PHILAS Auction 121 Saturday 11th July
2015 at PHILAS House 17 Brisbane St Surry Hills
Northern Suburbs Philatelic Society A
Winterrsquos Day with Stamps Dougherty Centre Victor St Chatswood Sat 25th July 2015
Orange Coin amp Stamp Club Annual General
meeting amp monthly meeting 730pm
Tuesday 28th July at the Community Info Centre Kite St
Orange Coin amp Stamp Club monthly meeting 730pm Tuesday 25th August at the Community Info Centre Kite St
Petersham SCDAA Stamp amp Coin Super Fair Petersham Town Hall 107 Crystal St Petersham Sunday 30th August 2015
BATHEX 2015 Bathurst Bicentenary
Collectables Gem amp Mineral Exhibition Bathurst Showground 26th-27th September 2015
Orange Coin amp Stamp Club Spring Fair 2015 and Auction on Saturday 17th October at the Kenna Hall 90 Hill St Orange 9 to 5
ANDA APTA Show Lower Town Hall
Sydney 1oth amp 11th October 2015
Campbelltown Clubrsquos Fisherrsquos Ghost
Stamp Fair Civic Hall Campbelltown Sunday 1st November 2015
Adelaide STAMPEX 2014 Modified
National Stamp Exhibition 10-12 October Drill Hall Torrens Parade Ground King William Road Adelaide
Wagga Stamp amp Coin Fair 21st amp 22nd
November 2015 at Sturt Primary School 60 White Avenue Kooringal Wagga Wagga
Petersham SCDAA Stamp amp Coin Super Fair Petersham Town Hall 107 Crystal St Petersham Sunday 29th November 2015
- Page - 5 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
THE NEXT LUNCH-TIME MEETING is at midday Monday
13th July 2015 at the Orange Community Information amp Services
Centre 79 Kite St Itrsquos a great opportunity to swap stamps No theme helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip
Thanks to Australian Stamps Professional Magazine for their kind donation of back copies for
our EXPO 2015 Pick the current issue up at your newsagent or email infozoicomau Most
Orange newsagents now keep it
wwwaustralianstampspr
Hunter Arcade Sydney 2000 ndash Lower Concourse Wynyard Railway Station Ph (02) 9299 2047 amp Fax
(02) 9290 3710Their e-mail address is saleswynyardcoinscomau
The Wynyard Coin Centre was a sponsor of our Expo 2015 We thank them for their kind donation of books for our library and the ldquosample bagsrdquo for Expo visitor
helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip
Thanks also to
Orangersquos ODEON5 Cinema for their kind donation of prizes for the Expo 2015 youth competitions
helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip
ORANGE STAMPS and COINS PO Box 9288 Orange2800
Email howardlyonsbigpondcom
FOR ALL YOUR ACCESSORIES Available at the Clubrsquos monthly fair in the Orange Cultural Centre
I would like to thank all those members of the Club who gave up their time to provide assistance with the running of the Orange Stamps and Coins Auction 3 it was indeed very much appreciated I believe an event such as this would not take place if it wasnt for your help and support I do hope that I can again call on your services again next year when we shall endeavour to do Auction 4 Howard
- Page - 6 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUBrsquoS
2015 SPRING FAIR
amp auction
In the KENNA HALL 90 Hill Street Orange
DISPLAYS OF COINS amp STAMPS INFORMATION VALUATIONS CLUB STAMP amp COIN DEALERS amp
AUCTION
SATURDAY 17th October 2015 9am to 5pm
Admission $2 accompanied kids free
Stamp amp Coin Auction starts at 230pm
Auction lot viewing from 9am to 1230pm
MEMBERS - THE CLUB NEEDS YOUR LOTS FOR THE SPRING FAIR AUCTION ON SATURDAY 17th OCTOBER 2015 START PREPARING YOUR LOT DESCRIPTIONS Contact the auction co-ordinator Col Davidson
- Page - 7 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Orange Stamps amp Coinsrsquo auction in progress on 13 June 2015
Ray Norman talking to Tony Richards on the Club table at Expo 2015 April 2015
- Page - 8 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
ORANGE STAMPS and COINS PO Box 9288 Orange
Email howardlyonsbigpondcom Phone 6362 2368
2015 ANZAC Day $2 Red Uncirculated Australian Decimal Coin
plus the latest Royal Australian Mint issues
Still in stock and available Saturday July 4th at the Cultural Centre -----------------------------
Presently awaiting the arrival of the
2015 ANZACS Remembered 20c amp $1 War
Heroes ndash Set of 15 coins
Direct from the Royal Australian Mint - RRP ( to be advised)
- Page - 9 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
MINT UNCIRCULATED
Time to change - 1
A recent article in the CWD referred to money presumably notes and coins being
replaced by debit and credit cards This is close to reality when shopping for several
items or expensive ones but I canrsquot imagine using a card for buying small items such as
the CWD especially for sums less than our current smallest note of $5 Even now many
businesses have minimum limits before debit cards are acceptable The collection plate
on Sundays would be comparatively lean if no coins were available
Time to change - 2
In the past week or so I have seen a TV ad asking for donations of 5c pieces to fund
foreign aid charities Suggestions have been around for a while that this denomination is
destined to follow the 1c and 2
c coins into extinction No doubt itrsquos time to start rounding
up the prices to the nearest 10c A quick check of my pocket revealed a lonely 5
c among
mostly 20c and $2 coins
Lawrence Sherwin
Lawrence Sherwinrsquos display of coinage of Richard III won the numismatic competition at the Clubrsquos 2015 Expo in April
- Page - 10 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The First Caliphate
When the prophet Mohammed died in AD 630 his followers elected a new leader of the Moslems with the title of Caliph Arabic for successor combining the roles of civil and religious leader A century later the Caliphate had expanded from Arabia into an empire that stretched from Spain across North Africa through the Middle East as far as the border with modern India This vast empire had a short lifetime as a result of Islamic factional politics and consisted of little more than modern Iraq when obliterated by the Mongols in AD 1258
The Caliphate at about its greatest extent showing the location of some mints (Wikipedia) The early coinage of the Caliphate was copied from Roman (Byzantine) prototypes in gold and copper and Iranian types in silver Purely Islamic types took nearly 50 years to appear and were distinguished by purely epigraphic (non-figural) types Early issues of the Caliphate showed the mint and date but were otherwise anonymous The denominations struck by the Caliphs and most Islamic states were the gold dinar the silver dirhem and copper fals With the passing years as the Caliphate disintegrated into a multitude of warring Islamic states many with leaders calling themselves caliph it became necessary for the true Caliph to be identified on the coins as the responsible issuer
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EARLY ISLAMIC Gold Dinar (20mm 427 g) Dated AH 83 (703 AD)
LATER ISLAMIC Gold Dinar (24mm 598 g) Tustar min al-Ahwaz mint Extra inscription was necessary to identify the caliph Dated AH 325 (AD 9367)
Caliphate Early silver dirhem closely modelled on Iranian (Persian) types (32mm 407 g) Kirman mint Dated AH 67 (AD 6867)
Political instability was as much a feature of the first caliphate as of the current one The caliph al-Muntasir (AD 861-862)
murdered his predecessor and was himself murdered after a reign of six months Silver dirhem (19mm 288 g) Surra man rarsquoa (Samarra) mint Dated AH 248 (AD 862)
Later Caliphate Silver Dirhem (23mm 297 g) of non-pictorial type Er-Rafiqat (Rakka) mint Dated AH 290 (AD 9023
- Page - 12 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The early copper coinage of the Caliphate was modelled very closely on Roman (Byzantine) types This fals has replaced the emperorrsquos name with that of the mint Damascus written in Greek characters Otherwise it is a close copy of a Roman follis even retaining crosses in the design Circa 680s AElig Fals (20mm 415 g) Damascus mint
Copper fals (185mm 307 g) Halab (Aleppo) mint Struck circa 690s The cross soon disappeared from the fals and the image of the emperor was replaced by that of the caliph The inscriptions were now entirely in Arabic
Pictorial designs disappeared altogether within a few years because of Islamic disapproval of images which might be deemed idolatry This fals (17mm 496 g) struck in Seville Spain in AH 108 (AD 7267) is typical of subsequent copper coinage
with inscriptions only
Images courtesy of CNG
Lawrence Sherwin
A 1938 AIR MAIL FROM NEW ZEALAND TO SAN
FRANCISCO via AMERCAN SAMOA AND HAWAII
Kingsford-Smith was the first person to fly across the Pacific in the Southern Cross in 1938
Ten years later Pan American Airways had an ambitious plan to commence an air mail service from San
Francisco to New Zealand Juan Trippe and his investors wanted originally to fly the lucrative and
prestigious air mail and passenger route across the Atlantic Ocean but they could not get permission In
1934 they had acquired two Martin M130 and three Sikorsky S-42 clippers ndash 42 million worth of aircraft
They needed an ocean to cross ndash so they chose the Pacific
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Their first successful route was from San Francisco to Manila in the American territory of the Philippines
Captain Edwin Musick set off on the first survey flight on 17 April 1935 He replaced the passenger cabin
with auxiliary fuel tanks In June the S-42 flew from Hawaii to Midway In August it flew to Wake Island
and by October it flew across the Pacific to Guam
Pan Amrsquos first route across the Pacific with connections to Macau Hong Kong Canton Shanghai amp Beijing
The first regular mail amp passenger carrying Pan Am clipper flight arrived in manila on 29 November 1935
under the command of Captain Ed Musick The passenger fare was US$95
After that Martin M130 clippers left San Francisco every Wednesday for Manila Later it connected with
another Pan American flying boat service to Hong Kong and Macau ndash until the disappearance of the Hawaii
Clipper in 1938 when Pan Am was left with only two Martin clippers The service to Manila had to be
reduced to three times a month
Captain Musick arriving in Honolulu in a Sikorsky S-42 Clipper after the first Pacific survey flight April
1935
With delays in setting up an Atlantic service Pan Am began surveying new routes to New Zealand
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In March 1937 Captain Ed Musick took to survey a route using a landing on Kingman Reef and at Pago
Pago in American Samoa These were the only spots were America had any sovereignty This route was
dangerous and probably ill-advised The British amp French-governed colonies did not give approval to Pan
Am set up flying boat bases
The first official airmail was flown between Auckland and San Francisco on 2 January 1938 The plane the
Samoan Clipper was a Sikorsky S-42B flying boat The pilot again was Ed Musick The plane had
landed in Auckland on 26 December after a journey from San Francisco but no air mail had been carried
from the United States
The plane left Auckland on 2 January with a hold full of mail (but no passengers) and arrived at Pago Pago
in American Samoa on 1 January (because of the International Date Line) It arrived in Hawaii on 3 January
and the mail was transferred to a Martin flying boat operating on the regular Pan Am Manila to San
Francisco Route The mail arrived in San Francisco on 6 January The rate to both the US and the UK was
46d
lsquoSamoa Clipperrsquo in Auckland Harbour very-late-December 1937 The Centaurus is behind
Earlier in 1937 the Centaurus had inaugurated the England to Australia air route for Imperial
Airways
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Captain Ed Musick and his entire crew were tragically killed a fortnight later on 11 January 1938 on the
return flight to New Zealand The SB42B flying boat developed an oil leak after taking off form Pago Pago
The aircraft jettisoned fuel in an attempt to lighten the aircraft as they attempted to return to Pago Pago The
fuel ignited as vapours built up in the wing structure and the plane exploded in flame The service was
terminated and not restored until it 1940 Then the US Army Air Service needed to provide a service across
the Pacific because German invasions in Europe had cut off the direct route from Australia amp New Zealand
to the USA and the United Kingdom
Two covers flown on the first Auckland to San Francisco air mail service (The back of one and the
front of another)
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WORLD TOILET DAY STAMPS
One of our members brought along to our last meeting a colour photocopy of a letter
from Samoa to the Uniting Church in Orange showing a $2 World Toilet Day stamp
World Toilet Day is a big United Nations event Much of the Third World is ravaged
by disease because of the inadequate provision of proper toilets Around 3000
children die every day because of poor sanitation
On 26 November 2014 Samoa issued a stamp to demonstrate the importance hygiene
and sanitation in Samoa It was launched by the Deputy Prime Minister Fonote Laufo
who also opened two Garden Toilets He acknowledged the help of the European
Union and the World Bank in providing better sanitation in Samoa
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The Republic of San Marino has also produced World Toilet Day stamps-
The 2015 issue has an appropriate postmark
It is not a subject that Australia Post has been big on
- Page - 18 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Correspondence list for Orange Coin amp Stamp Club meeting of 30 June2015
Item Date in Action
1
2 Letter from Orange
Councilrsquos
Community Info amp
Services Centre of
25 May re info for
Community
Information Guide
28 May 2015 Replied to on 28 May
updating the Clubrsquos
information for 2015-
2016
3 The Wagga Stamp
Club (Inc)
Newsletter for June
2015 9pp
29 May 2015
4 Bathurst Stamp
Coin Collectables amp
Lapidary Club
Newsletter for May amp
June 2015
By e-mail on 31 May
2015
5 Queensland
Numismatic Society
Inc Monthly
Magazine for May
2015
4 June 2015
6 PHILAS News for
June 201 3 copies
4 June 2015 Copies to publicity officer
amp to president on 6 June
Contains a half-page
report on Expo
7 MR Robertsrsquo
NUMI$NEWS for
June 2015
4 June 2015
8 Letter from Orange
Council re Hire Fees
for Cultural Centre
dated 1 June 2015
5 June 2015 Discussed at Monthly Fair
on 6 June 2015 Draft
reply has been prepared
For discussion
9 Gladstone amp District
Philatelic Societyrsquos
The Gladstone Bag
for 10 June 2015
5 June 2015
10 Australian Philatelc
Traders lsquoAssociation
APTA 2015
Yearbook 1 copy
9 June 2015
- Page - 19 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
28pp
11 Leonard G Morel of
leonxnlizzycomau
Banknote list amp Coin
list for June 2015 2
copies of each
11 June 2015
12 Statement from
Prime Media Group
Pty Ltd dated 8 June
15 June 2015 For treasurer
13 Maitland amp District
Coin Clubrsquos
Newsletter for July
2015
22 June 2015
14 Bathurst C S C
amp Lap Clubrsquos
Bathex 2015
Exhibition and
Bathurst Centenary
Information e-
Newsletter Issue 10
May 2015
By e-mail on 23 June
2015
Some hard copies made amp
to go out as a pdf e-mail
attachment
15 Australian Stamps
Professional magazine for June-
July 2015
26 June 2015
16 Tamworth
Philatelic Society
Inc Newsletter for
July amp August 2015
29 June 2015
17 PHILAS Auction
Catalogue for
Auction 121 Saturday 11 July 2015
26 June 2015
- Page - 20 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
AAA Stamps tables at Expo 2015 in April Steve Burton is talking to Phil Morehouse
(on the left) and another customer
Tony Byrne at Expo 2015 in April setting up his tables
- Page - 3 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
TROUBLES WITH ORANGE
COUNCIL ampTHE CULTURAL
CENTRE VENUE
Orange Councilrsquos manager Administration amp Governance have written to us in a letter dated 6th June 2015 advising that from 1 July the hire charge for the Orange Cultural Centre will be $10 an hour
We currently have a booking at the Cultural Centre for the first Saturday of each month for our monthly Orange Coin amp Stamp Fair Our current booking is from 8am to 4pm Thatrsquos 8 hours In 2014-5 and in previous years we paid approximately $10 for each day
We were advised in the letter that we will be invoiced at the new rate $80 per day from 1 July
The matter was discussed by the participants at the Fair on 6th June There was agreement that we might cut the hours back to four ie from 930am to 130pm That would cost us $40 a session We used to pay $30 plus $3 GST in the Quinnrsquos Arcade $40 is not much of an increase on that We will probably not make a booking for January
A reply to Council will be tabled at the June 30 meeting
OUR NEXT MIDDAY MEETING IS
ON MONDAY 13th
JULY 2015
Our next lunchtime meeting will be at midday on Monday 13th July 2015 We meet in the Orange Community Information amp Service Centre Kite Street Access is from Woolworthrsquos car park or the Kite St entrance
If you havenrsquot been before please come along Itrsquos an opportunity for swapping for asking questions and for information
OUR NEXT MONTHLY ORANGE
COIN amp STAMP FAIR IS IN THE
ORANGE CULTURAL CENTRE
ON SATURDAY 4th
JULY 2015
Our next monthly Coin amp Stamp Fair will be held on Saturday 4th July 2015 in the main hall of the Orange Cultural Centre in Sale St
The Fair runs from 930am till about 130 pm
The venue for our monthly fair is the Orange Cultural Centre It is held on the 1st Saturday of each month
The Orange Cultural Centre is the white-stuccoed building with trees out the front on the right as you enter the Woolworthrsquos car park from Sale St Harris Farm fruit market is on the left
ITEMS FOR THIS NEWSLETTER
AND CORRESPONDENCE TO
THE CLUB
Items for this newsletter need to be posted to the Secretary at the Clubrsquos postal address -PO Box 324 ORANGE 2800 They can always also be e-mailed to - ddolstrabigpondnetau
-Or phone 63 614 872 The opinions expressed in this Newsletter are those of the editor amp are not necessarily the Orange Coin amp Stamp Club Inc
THANKS TO EXPO 2015
SPONSORS - PLEASE SUPPORT
THEM IN RETURN
Australian Stamp Professional magazine
Dot Richards for the main raffle prizes
Seven Seas Stamps
MR Roberts amp the Wynyard Coin Centre
Jane Silvester of East Orange LPO
Orange Odeon5 Cinemas
Community Radio Station 1075 FM
DEALERS WHO ATTENDED
OUR 2015 EXPO ndash KEEP
SUPPORTING THEM
- Page - 4 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
A Byrne Coins (Tony Byrne
from Canberra ndash PO Box 53 MITCHELL ACT 2911 ph (02) 6255 4044)
AAA Stamps (Steve Burton
from the Central Coast ph 0432 540 760 email aaastampsyahoocomau World-wide stamps bought amp sold
Phil amp Win Morehouse
Bankstown NSW Ph (02) 9707 4087 email wmorehousenetspacenetau
Wynyard Coin Centre 7
Hunter Arcade Sydney 2000 ndash Lower Concourse Wynyard Railway Station Ph (02) 9299 2047 amp Fax (02) 9290 3710Their e-mail address is saleswynyardcoinscomau
Orange Stamps and Coins
(Howard Lyons) PO Box 9288 ORANGE NSW 2800 Phfax (02) 6362 2368 E-mail - howardlyonsbigpondcom
DATES FOR 2015
Orange Coin amp Stamp Club monthly
meeting 730pm Tuesday 30th June at the Community Info Centre Kite St
PHILAS Auction 121 Saturday 11th July
2015 at PHILAS House 17 Brisbane St Surry Hills
Northern Suburbs Philatelic Society A
Winterrsquos Day with Stamps Dougherty Centre Victor St Chatswood Sat 25th July 2015
Orange Coin amp Stamp Club Annual General
meeting amp monthly meeting 730pm
Tuesday 28th July at the Community Info Centre Kite St
Orange Coin amp Stamp Club monthly meeting 730pm Tuesday 25th August at the Community Info Centre Kite St
Petersham SCDAA Stamp amp Coin Super Fair Petersham Town Hall 107 Crystal St Petersham Sunday 30th August 2015
BATHEX 2015 Bathurst Bicentenary
Collectables Gem amp Mineral Exhibition Bathurst Showground 26th-27th September 2015
Orange Coin amp Stamp Club Spring Fair 2015 and Auction on Saturday 17th October at the Kenna Hall 90 Hill St Orange 9 to 5
ANDA APTA Show Lower Town Hall
Sydney 1oth amp 11th October 2015
Campbelltown Clubrsquos Fisherrsquos Ghost
Stamp Fair Civic Hall Campbelltown Sunday 1st November 2015
Adelaide STAMPEX 2014 Modified
National Stamp Exhibition 10-12 October Drill Hall Torrens Parade Ground King William Road Adelaide
Wagga Stamp amp Coin Fair 21st amp 22nd
November 2015 at Sturt Primary School 60 White Avenue Kooringal Wagga Wagga
Petersham SCDAA Stamp amp Coin Super Fair Petersham Town Hall 107 Crystal St Petersham Sunday 29th November 2015
- Page - 5 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
THE NEXT LUNCH-TIME MEETING is at midday Monday
13th July 2015 at the Orange Community Information amp Services
Centre 79 Kite St Itrsquos a great opportunity to swap stamps No theme helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip
Thanks to Australian Stamps Professional Magazine for their kind donation of back copies for
our EXPO 2015 Pick the current issue up at your newsagent or email infozoicomau Most
Orange newsagents now keep it
wwwaustralianstampspr
Hunter Arcade Sydney 2000 ndash Lower Concourse Wynyard Railway Station Ph (02) 9299 2047 amp Fax
(02) 9290 3710Their e-mail address is saleswynyardcoinscomau
The Wynyard Coin Centre was a sponsor of our Expo 2015 We thank them for their kind donation of books for our library and the ldquosample bagsrdquo for Expo visitor
helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip
Thanks also to
Orangersquos ODEON5 Cinema for their kind donation of prizes for the Expo 2015 youth competitions
helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip
ORANGE STAMPS and COINS PO Box 9288 Orange2800
Email howardlyonsbigpondcom
FOR ALL YOUR ACCESSORIES Available at the Clubrsquos monthly fair in the Orange Cultural Centre
I would like to thank all those members of the Club who gave up their time to provide assistance with the running of the Orange Stamps and Coins Auction 3 it was indeed very much appreciated I believe an event such as this would not take place if it wasnt for your help and support I do hope that I can again call on your services again next year when we shall endeavour to do Auction 4 Howard
- Page - 6 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUBrsquoS
2015 SPRING FAIR
amp auction
In the KENNA HALL 90 Hill Street Orange
DISPLAYS OF COINS amp STAMPS INFORMATION VALUATIONS CLUB STAMP amp COIN DEALERS amp
AUCTION
SATURDAY 17th October 2015 9am to 5pm
Admission $2 accompanied kids free
Stamp amp Coin Auction starts at 230pm
Auction lot viewing from 9am to 1230pm
MEMBERS - THE CLUB NEEDS YOUR LOTS FOR THE SPRING FAIR AUCTION ON SATURDAY 17th OCTOBER 2015 START PREPARING YOUR LOT DESCRIPTIONS Contact the auction co-ordinator Col Davidson
- Page - 7 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Orange Stamps amp Coinsrsquo auction in progress on 13 June 2015
Ray Norman talking to Tony Richards on the Club table at Expo 2015 April 2015
- Page - 8 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
ORANGE STAMPS and COINS PO Box 9288 Orange
Email howardlyonsbigpondcom Phone 6362 2368
2015 ANZAC Day $2 Red Uncirculated Australian Decimal Coin
plus the latest Royal Australian Mint issues
Still in stock and available Saturday July 4th at the Cultural Centre -----------------------------
Presently awaiting the arrival of the
2015 ANZACS Remembered 20c amp $1 War
Heroes ndash Set of 15 coins
Direct from the Royal Australian Mint - RRP ( to be advised)
- Page - 9 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
MINT UNCIRCULATED
Time to change - 1
A recent article in the CWD referred to money presumably notes and coins being
replaced by debit and credit cards This is close to reality when shopping for several
items or expensive ones but I canrsquot imagine using a card for buying small items such as
the CWD especially for sums less than our current smallest note of $5 Even now many
businesses have minimum limits before debit cards are acceptable The collection plate
on Sundays would be comparatively lean if no coins were available
Time to change - 2
In the past week or so I have seen a TV ad asking for donations of 5c pieces to fund
foreign aid charities Suggestions have been around for a while that this denomination is
destined to follow the 1c and 2
c coins into extinction No doubt itrsquos time to start rounding
up the prices to the nearest 10c A quick check of my pocket revealed a lonely 5
c among
mostly 20c and $2 coins
Lawrence Sherwin
Lawrence Sherwinrsquos display of coinage of Richard III won the numismatic competition at the Clubrsquos 2015 Expo in April
- Page - 10 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The First Caliphate
When the prophet Mohammed died in AD 630 his followers elected a new leader of the Moslems with the title of Caliph Arabic for successor combining the roles of civil and religious leader A century later the Caliphate had expanded from Arabia into an empire that stretched from Spain across North Africa through the Middle East as far as the border with modern India This vast empire had a short lifetime as a result of Islamic factional politics and consisted of little more than modern Iraq when obliterated by the Mongols in AD 1258
The Caliphate at about its greatest extent showing the location of some mints (Wikipedia) The early coinage of the Caliphate was copied from Roman (Byzantine) prototypes in gold and copper and Iranian types in silver Purely Islamic types took nearly 50 years to appear and were distinguished by purely epigraphic (non-figural) types Early issues of the Caliphate showed the mint and date but were otherwise anonymous The denominations struck by the Caliphs and most Islamic states were the gold dinar the silver dirhem and copper fals With the passing years as the Caliphate disintegrated into a multitude of warring Islamic states many with leaders calling themselves caliph it became necessary for the true Caliph to be identified on the coins as the responsible issuer
- Page - 11 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
EARLY ISLAMIC Gold Dinar (20mm 427 g) Dated AH 83 (703 AD)
LATER ISLAMIC Gold Dinar (24mm 598 g) Tustar min al-Ahwaz mint Extra inscription was necessary to identify the caliph Dated AH 325 (AD 9367)
Caliphate Early silver dirhem closely modelled on Iranian (Persian) types (32mm 407 g) Kirman mint Dated AH 67 (AD 6867)
Political instability was as much a feature of the first caliphate as of the current one The caliph al-Muntasir (AD 861-862)
murdered his predecessor and was himself murdered after a reign of six months Silver dirhem (19mm 288 g) Surra man rarsquoa (Samarra) mint Dated AH 248 (AD 862)
Later Caliphate Silver Dirhem (23mm 297 g) of non-pictorial type Er-Rafiqat (Rakka) mint Dated AH 290 (AD 9023
- Page - 12 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The early copper coinage of the Caliphate was modelled very closely on Roman (Byzantine) types This fals has replaced the emperorrsquos name with that of the mint Damascus written in Greek characters Otherwise it is a close copy of a Roman follis even retaining crosses in the design Circa 680s AElig Fals (20mm 415 g) Damascus mint
Copper fals (185mm 307 g) Halab (Aleppo) mint Struck circa 690s The cross soon disappeared from the fals and the image of the emperor was replaced by that of the caliph The inscriptions were now entirely in Arabic
Pictorial designs disappeared altogether within a few years because of Islamic disapproval of images which might be deemed idolatry This fals (17mm 496 g) struck in Seville Spain in AH 108 (AD 7267) is typical of subsequent copper coinage
with inscriptions only
Images courtesy of CNG
Lawrence Sherwin
A 1938 AIR MAIL FROM NEW ZEALAND TO SAN
FRANCISCO via AMERCAN SAMOA AND HAWAII
Kingsford-Smith was the first person to fly across the Pacific in the Southern Cross in 1938
Ten years later Pan American Airways had an ambitious plan to commence an air mail service from San
Francisco to New Zealand Juan Trippe and his investors wanted originally to fly the lucrative and
prestigious air mail and passenger route across the Atlantic Ocean but they could not get permission In
1934 they had acquired two Martin M130 and three Sikorsky S-42 clippers ndash 42 million worth of aircraft
They needed an ocean to cross ndash so they chose the Pacific
- Page - 13 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Their first successful route was from San Francisco to Manila in the American territory of the Philippines
Captain Edwin Musick set off on the first survey flight on 17 April 1935 He replaced the passenger cabin
with auxiliary fuel tanks In June the S-42 flew from Hawaii to Midway In August it flew to Wake Island
and by October it flew across the Pacific to Guam
Pan Amrsquos first route across the Pacific with connections to Macau Hong Kong Canton Shanghai amp Beijing
The first regular mail amp passenger carrying Pan Am clipper flight arrived in manila on 29 November 1935
under the command of Captain Ed Musick The passenger fare was US$95
After that Martin M130 clippers left San Francisco every Wednesday for Manila Later it connected with
another Pan American flying boat service to Hong Kong and Macau ndash until the disappearance of the Hawaii
Clipper in 1938 when Pan Am was left with only two Martin clippers The service to Manila had to be
reduced to three times a month
Captain Musick arriving in Honolulu in a Sikorsky S-42 Clipper after the first Pacific survey flight April
1935
With delays in setting up an Atlantic service Pan Am began surveying new routes to New Zealand
- Page - 14 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
In March 1937 Captain Ed Musick took to survey a route using a landing on Kingman Reef and at Pago
Pago in American Samoa These were the only spots were America had any sovereignty This route was
dangerous and probably ill-advised The British amp French-governed colonies did not give approval to Pan
Am set up flying boat bases
The first official airmail was flown between Auckland and San Francisco on 2 January 1938 The plane the
Samoan Clipper was a Sikorsky S-42B flying boat The pilot again was Ed Musick The plane had
landed in Auckland on 26 December after a journey from San Francisco but no air mail had been carried
from the United States
The plane left Auckland on 2 January with a hold full of mail (but no passengers) and arrived at Pago Pago
in American Samoa on 1 January (because of the International Date Line) It arrived in Hawaii on 3 January
and the mail was transferred to a Martin flying boat operating on the regular Pan Am Manila to San
Francisco Route The mail arrived in San Francisco on 6 January The rate to both the US and the UK was
46d
lsquoSamoa Clipperrsquo in Auckland Harbour very-late-December 1937 The Centaurus is behind
Earlier in 1937 the Centaurus had inaugurated the England to Australia air route for Imperial
Airways
- Page - 15 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Captain Ed Musick and his entire crew were tragically killed a fortnight later on 11 January 1938 on the
return flight to New Zealand The SB42B flying boat developed an oil leak after taking off form Pago Pago
The aircraft jettisoned fuel in an attempt to lighten the aircraft as they attempted to return to Pago Pago The
fuel ignited as vapours built up in the wing structure and the plane exploded in flame The service was
terminated and not restored until it 1940 Then the US Army Air Service needed to provide a service across
the Pacific because German invasions in Europe had cut off the direct route from Australia amp New Zealand
to the USA and the United Kingdom
Two covers flown on the first Auckland to San Francisco air mail service (The back of one and the
front of another)
- Page - 16 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
WORLD TOILET DAY STAMPS
One of our members brought along to our last meeting a colour photocopy of a letter
from Samoa to the Uniting Church in Orange showing a $2 World Toilet Day stamp
World Toilet Day is a big United Nations event Much of the Third World is ravaged
by disease because of the inadequate provision of proper toilets Around 3000
children die every day because of poor sanitation
On 26 November 2014 Samoa issued a stamp to demonstrate the importance hygiene
and sanitation in Samoa It was launched by the Deputy Prime Minister Fonote Laufo
who also opened two Garden Toilets He acknowledged the help of the European
Union and the World Bank in providing better sanitation in Samoa
- Page - 17 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The Republic of San Marino has also produced World Toilet Day stamps-
The 2015 issue has an appropriate postmark
It is not a subject that Australia Post has been big on
- Page - 18 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Correspondence list for Orange Coin amp Stamp Club meeting of 30 June2015
Item Date in Action
1
2 Letter from Orange
Councilrsquos
Community Info amp
Services Centre of
25 May re info for
Community
Information Guide
28 May 2015 Replied to on 28 May
updating the Clubrsquos
information for 2015-
2016
3 The Wagga Stamp
Club (Inc)
Newsletter for June
2015 9pp
29 May 2015
4 Bathurst Stamp
Coin Collectables amp
Lapidary Club
Newsletter for May amp
June 2015
By e-mail on 31 May
2015
5 Queensland
Numismatic Society
Inc Monthly
Magazine for May
2015
4 June 2015
6 PHILAS News for
June 201 3 copies
4 June 2015 Copies to publicity officer
amp to president on 6 June
Contains a half-page
report on Expo
7 MR Robertsrsquo
NUMI$NEWS for
June 2015
4 June 2015
8 Letter from Orange
Council re Hire Fees
for Cultural Centre
dated 1 June 2015
5 June 2015 Discussed at Monthly Fair
on 6 June 2015 Draft
reply has been prepared
For discussion
9 Gladstone amp District
Philatelic Societyrsquos
The Gladstone Bag
for 10 June 2015
5 June 2015
10 Australian Philatelc
Traders lsquoAssociation
APTA 2015
Yearbook 1 copy
9 June 2015
- Page - 19 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
28pp
11 Leonard G Morel of
leonxnlizzycomau
Banknote list amp Coin
list for June 2015 2
copies of each
11 June 2015
12 Statement from
Prime Media Group
Pty Ltd dated 8 June
15 June 2015 For treasurer
13 Maitland amp District
Coin Clubrsquos
Newsletter for July
2015
22 June 2015
14 Bathurst C S C
amp Lap Clubrsquos
Bathex 2015
Exhibition and
Bathurst Centenary
Information e-
Newsletter Issue 10
May 2015
By e-mail on 23 June
2015
Some hard copies made amp
to go out as a pdf e-mail
attachment
15 Australian Stamps
Professional magazine for June-
July 2015
26 June 2015
16 Tamworth
Philatelic Society
Inc Newsletter for
July amp August 2015
29 June 2015
17 PHILAS Auction
Catalogue for
Auction 121 Saturday 11 July 2015
26 June 2015
- Page - 20 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
AAA Stamps tables at Expo 2015 in April Steve Burton is talking to Phil Morehouse
(on the left) and another customer
Tony Byrne at Expo 2015 in April setting up his tables
- Page - 4 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
A Byrne Coins (Tony Byrne
from Canberra ndash PO Box 53 MITCHELL ACT 2911 ph (02) 6255 4044)
AAA Stamps (Steve Burton
from the Central Coast ph 0432 540 760 email aaastampsyahoocomau World-wide stamps bought amp sold
Phil amp Win Morehouse
Bankstown NSW Ph (02) 9707 4087 email wmorehousenetspacenetau
Wynyard Coin Centre 7
Hunter Arcade Sydney 2000 ndash Lower Concourse Wynyard Railway Station Ph (02) 9299 2047 amp Fax (02) 9290 3710Their e-mail address is saleswynyardcoinscomau
Orange Stamps and Coins
(Howard Lyons) PO Box 9288 ORANGE NSW 2800 Phfax (02) 6362 2368 E-mail - howardlyonsbigpondcom
DATES FOR 2015
Orange Coin amp Stamp Club monthly
meeting 730pm Tuesday 30th June at the Community Info Centre Kite St
PHILAS Auction 121 Saturday 11th July
2015 at PHILAS House 17 Brisbane St Surry Hills
Northern Suburbs Philatelic Society A
Winterrsquos Day with Stamps Dougherty Centre Victor St Chatswood Sat 25th July 2015
Orange Coin amp Stamp Club Annual General
meeting amp monthly meeting 730pm
Tuesday 28th July at the Community Info Centre Kite St
Orange Coin amp Stamp Club monthly meeting 730pm Tuesday 25th August at the Community Info Centre Kite St
Petersham SCDAA Stamp amp Coin Super Fair Petersham Town Hall 107 Crystal St Petersham Sunday 30th August 2015
BATHEX 2015 Bathurst Bicentenary
Collectables Gem amp Mineral Exhibition Bathurst Showground 26th-27th September 2015
Orange Coin amp Stamp Club Spring Fair 2015 and Auction on Saturday 17th October at the Kenna Hall 90 Hill St Orange 9 to 5
ANDA APTA Show Lower Town Hall
Sydney 1oth amp 11th October 2015
Campbelltown Clubrsquos Fisherrsquos Ghost
Stamp Fair Civic Hall Campbelltown Sunday 1st November 2015
Adelaide STAMPEX 2014 Modified
National Stamp Exhibition 10-12 October Drill Hall Torrens Parade Ground King William Road Adelaide
Wagga Stamp amp Coin Fair 21st amp 22nd
November 2015 at Sturt Primary School 60 White Avenue Kooringal Wagga Wagga
Petersham SCDAA Stamp amp Coin Super Fair Petersham Town Hall 107 Crystal St Petersham Sunday 29th November 2015
- Page - 5 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
THE NEXT LUNCH-TIME MEETING is at midday Monday
13th July 2015 at the Orange Community Information amp Services
Centre 79 Kite St Itrsquos a great opportunity to swap stamps No theme helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip
Thanks to Australian Stamps Professional Magazine for their kind donation of back copies for
our EXPO 2015 Pick the current issue up at your newsagent or email infozoicomau Most
Orange newsagents now keep it
wwwaustralianstampspr
Hunter Arcade Sydney 2000 ndash Lower Concourse Wynyard Railway Station Ph (02) 9299 2047 amp Fax
(02) 9290 3710Their e-mail address is saleswynyardcoinscomau
The Wynyard Coin Centre was a sponsor of our Expo 2015 We thank them for their kind donation of books for our library and the ldquosample bagsrdquo for Expo visitor
helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip
Thanks also to
Orangersquos ODEON5 Cinema for their kind donation of prizes for the Expo 2015 youth competitions
helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip
ORANGE STAMPS and COINS PO Box 9288 Orange2800
Email howardlyonsbigpondcom
FOR ALL YOUR ACCESSORIES Available at the Clubrsquos monthly fair in the Orange Cultural Centre
I would like to thank all those members of the Club who gave up their time to provide assistance with the running of the Orange Stamps and Coins Auction 3 it was indeed very much appreciated I believe an event such as this would not take place if it wasnt for your help and support I do hope that I can again call on your services again next year when we shall endeavour to do Auction 4 Howard
- Page - 6 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUBrsquoS
2015 SPRING FAIR
amp auction
In the KENNA HALL 90 Hill Street Orange
DISPLAYS OF COINS amp STAMPS INFORMATION VALUATIONS CLUB STAMP amp COIN DEALERS amp
AUCTION
SATURDAY 17th October 2015 9am to 5pm
Admission $2 accompanied kids free
Stamp amp Coin Auction starts at 230pm
Auction lot viewing from 9am to 1230pm
MEMBERS - THE CLUB NEEDS YOUR LOTS FOR THE SPRING FAIR AUCTION ON SATURDAY 17th OCTOBER 2015 START PREPARING YOUR LOT DESCRIPTIONS Contact the auction co-ordinator Col Davidson
- Page - 7 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Orange Stamps amp Coinsrsquo auction in progress on 13 June 2015
Ray Norman talking to Tony Richards on the Club table at Expo 2015 April 2015
- Page - 8 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
ORANGE STAMPS and COINS PO Box 9288 Orange
Email howardlyonsbigpondcom Phone 6362 2368
2015 ANZAC Day $2 Red Uncirculated Australian Decimal Coin
plus the latest Royal Australian Mint issues
Still in stock and available Saturday July 4th at the Cultural Centre -----------------------------
Presently awaiting the arrival of the
2015 ANZACS Remembered 20c amp $1 War
Heroes ndash Set of 15 coins
Direct from the Royal Australian Mint - RRP ( to be advised)
- Page - 9 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
MINT UNCIRCULATED
Time to change - 1
A recent article in the CWD referred to money presumably notes and coins being
replaced by debit and credit cards This is close to reality when shopping for several
items or expensive ones but I canrsquot imagine using a card for buying small items such as
the CWD especially for sums less than our current smallest note of $5 Even now many
businesses have minimum limits before debit cards are acceptable The collection plate
on Sundays would be comparatively lean if no coins were available
Time to change - 2
In the past week or so I have seen a TV ad asking for donations of 5c pieces to fund
foreign aid charities Suggestions have been around for a while that this denomination is
destined to follow the 1c and 2
c coins into extinction No doubt itrsquos time to start rounding
up the prices to the nearest 10c A quick check of my pocket revealed a lonely 5
c among
mostly 20c and $2 coins
Lawrence Sherwin
Lawrence Sherwinrsquos display of coinage of Richard III won the numismatic competition at the Clubrsquos 2015 Expo in April
- Page - 10 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The First Caliphate
When the prophet Mohammed died in AD 630 his followers elected a new leader of the Moslems with the title of Caliph Arabic for successor combining the roles of civil and religious leader A century later the Caliphate had expanded from Arabia into an empire that stretched from Spain across North Africa through the Middle East as far as the border with modern India This vast empire had a short lifetime as a result of Islamic factional politics and consisted of little more than modern Iraq when obliterated by the Mongols in AD 1258
The Caliphate at about its greatest extent showing the location of some mints (Wikipedia) The early coinage of the Caliphate was copied from Roman (Byzantine) prototypes in gold and copper and Iranian types in silver Purely Islamic types took nearly 50 years to appear and were distinguished by purely epigraphic (non-figural) types Early issues of the Caliphate showed the mint and date but were otherwise anonymous The denominations struck by the Caliphs and most Islamic states were the gold dinar the silver dirhem and copper fals With the passing years as the Caliphate disintegrated into a multitude of warring Islamic states many with leaders calling themselves caliph it became necessary for the true Caliph to be identified on the coins as the responsible issuer
- Page - 11 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
EARLY ISLAMIC Gold Dinar (20mm 427 g) Dated AH 83 (703 AD)
LATER ISLAMIC Gold Dinar (24mm 598 g) Tustar min al-Ahwaz mint Extra inscription was necessary to identify the caliph Dated AH 325 (AD 9367)
Caliphate Early silver dirhem closely modelled on Iranian (Persian) types (32mm 407 g) Kirman mint Dated AH 67 (AD 6867)
Political instability was as much a feature of the first caliphate as of the current one The caliph al-Muntasir (AD 861-862)
murdered his predecessor and was himself murdered after a reign of six months Silver dirhem (19mm 288 g) Surra man rarsquoa (Samarra) mint Dated AH 248 (AD 862)
Later Caliphate Silver Dirhem (23mm 297 g) of non-pictorial type Er-Rafiqat (Rakka) mint Dated AH 290 (AD 9023
- Page - 12 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The early copper coinage of the Caliphate was modelled very closely on Roman (Byzantine) types This fals has replaced the emperorrsquos name with that of the mint Damascus written in Greek characters Otherwise it is a close copy of a Roman follis even retaining crosses in the design Circa 680s AElig Fals (20mm 415 g) Damascus mint
Copper fals (185mm 307 g) Halab (Aleppo) mint Struck circa 690s The cross soon disappeared from the fals and the image of the emperor was replaced by that of the caliph The inscriptions were now entirely in Arabic
Pictorial designs disappeared altogether within a few years because of Islamic disapproval of images which might be deemed idolatry This fals (17mm 496 g) struck in Seville Spain in AH 108 (AD 7267) is typical of subsequent copper coinage
with inscriptions only
Images courtesy of CNG
Lawrence Sherwin
A 1938 AIR MAIL FROM NEW ZEALAND TO SAN
FRANCISCO via AMERCAN SAMOA AND HAWAII
Kingsford-Smith was the first person to fly across the Pacific in the Southern Cross in 1938
Ten years later Pan American Airways had an ambitious plan to commence an air mail service from San
Francisco to New Zealand Juan Trippe and his investors wanted originally to fly the lucrative and
prestigious air mail and passenger route across the Atlantic Ocean but they could not get permission In
1934 they had acquired two Martin M130 and three Sikorsky S-42 clippers ndash 42 million worth of aircraft
They needed an ocean to cross ndash so they chose the Pacific
- Page - 13 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Their first successful route was from San Francisco to Manila in the American territory of the Philippines
Captain Edwin Musick set off on the first survey flight on 17 April 1935 He replaced the passenger cabin
with auxiliary fuel tanks In June the S-42 flew from Hawaii to Midway In August it flew to Wake Island
and by October it flew across the Pacific to Guam
Pan Amrsquos first route across the Pacific with connections to Macau Hong Kong Canton Shanghai amp Beijing
The first regular mail amp passenger carrying Pan Am clipper flight arrived in manila on 29 November 1935
under the command of Captain Ed Musick The passenger fare was US$95
After that Martin M130 clippers left San Francisco every Wednesday for Manila Later it connected with
another Pan American flying boat service to Hong Kong and Macau ndash until the disappearance of the Hawaii
Clipper in 1938 when Pan Am was left with only two Martin clippers The service to Manila had to be
reduced to three times a month
Captain Musick arriving in Honolulu in a Sikorsky S-42 Clipper after the first Pacific survey flight April
1935
With delays in setting up an Atlantic service Pan Am began surveying new routes to New Zealand
- Page - 14 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
In March 1937 Captain Ed Musick took to survey a route using a landing on Kingman Reef and at Pago
Pago in American Samoa These were the only spots were America had any sovereignty This route was
dangerous and probably ill-advised The British amp French-governed colonies did not give approval to Pan
Am set up flying boat bases
The first official airmail was flown between Auckland and San Francisco on 2 January 1938 The plane the
Samoan Clipper was a Sikorsky S-42B flying boat The pilot again was Ed Musick The plane had
landed in Auckland on 26 December after a journey from San Francisco but no air mail had been carried
from the United States
The plane left Auckland on 2 January with a hold full of mail (but no passengers) and arrived at Pago Pago
in American Samoa on 1 January (because of the International Date Line) It arrived in Hawaii on 3 January
and the mail was transferred to a Martin flying boat operating on the regular Pan Am Manila to San
Francisco Route The mail arrived in San Francisco on 6 January The rate to both the US and the UK was
46d
lsquoSamoa Clipperrsquo in Auckland Harbour very-late-December 1937 The Centaurus is behind
Earlier in 1937 the Centaurus had inaugurated the England to Australia air route for Imperial
Airways
- Page - 15 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Captain Ed Musick and his entire crew were tragically killed a fortnight later on 11 January 1938 on the
return flight to New Zealand The SB42B flying boat developed an oil leak after taking off form Pago Pago
The aircraft jettisoned fuel in an attempt to lighten the aircraft as they attempted to return to Pago Pago The
fuel ignited as vapours built up in the wing structure and the plane exploded in flame The service was
terminated and not restored until it 1940 Then the US Army Air Service needed to provide a service across
the Pacific because German invasions in Europe had cut off the direct route from Australia amp New Zealand
to the USA and the United Kingdom
Two covers flown on the first Auckland to San Francisco air mail service (The back of one and the
front of another)
- Page - 16 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
WORLD TOILET DAY STAMPS
One of our members brought along to our last meeting a colour photocopy of a letter
from Samoa to the Uniting Church in Orange showing a $2 World Toilet Day stamp
World Toilet Day is a big United Nations event Much of the Third World is ravaged
by disease because of the inadequate provision of proper toilets Around 3000
children die every day because of poor sanitation
On 26 November 2014 Samoa issued a stamp to demonstrate the importance hygiene
and sanitation in Samoa It was launched by the Deputy Prime Minister Fonote Laufo
who also opened two Garden Toilets He acknowledged the help of the European
Union and the World Bank in providing better sanitation in Samoa
- Page - 17 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The Republic of San Marino has also produced World Toilet Day stamps-
The 2015 issue has an appropriate postmark
It is not a subject that Australia Post has been big on
- Page - 18 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Correspondence list for Orange Coin amp Stamp Club meeting of 30 June2015
Item Date in Action
1
2 Letter from Orange
Councilrsquos
Community Info amp
Services Centre of
25 May re info for
Community
Information Guide
28 May 2015 Replied to on 28 May
updating the Clubrsquos
information for 2015-
2016
3 The Wagga Stamp
Club (Inc)
Newsletter for June
2015 9pp
29 May 2015
4 Bathurst Stamp
Coin Collectables amp
Lapidary Club
Newsletter for May amp
June 2015
By e-mail on 31 May
2015
5 Queensland
Numismatic Society
Inc Monthly
Magazine for May
2015
4 June 2015
6 PHILAS News for
June 201 3 copies
4 June 2015 Copies to publicity officer
amp to president on 6 June
Contains a half-page
report on Expo
7 MR Robertsrsquo
NUMI$NEWS for
June 2015
4 June 2015
8 Letter from Orange
Council re Hire Fees
for Cultural Centre
dated 1 June 2015
5 June 2015 Discussed at Monthly Fair
on 6 June 2015 Draft
reply has been prepared
For discussion
9 Gladstone amp District
Philatelic Societyrsquos
The Gladstone Bag
for 10 June 2015
5 June 2015
10 Australian Philatelc
Traders lsquoAssociation
APTA 2015
Yearbook 1 copy
9 June 2015
- Page - 19 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
28pp
11 Leonard G Morel of
leonxnlizzycomau
Banknote list amp Coin
list for June 2015 2
copies of each
11 June 2015
12 Statement from
Prime Media Group
Pty Ltd dated 8 June
15 June 2015 For treasurer
13 Maitland amp District
Coin Clubrsquos
Newsletter for July
2015
22 June 2015
14 Bathurst C S C
amp Lap Clubrsquos
Bathex 2015
Exhibition and
Bathurst Centenary
Information e-
Newsletter Issue 10
May 2015
By e-mail on 23 June
2015
Some hard copies made amp
to go out as a pdf e-mail
attachment
15 Australian Stamps
Professional magazine for June-
July 2015
26 June 2015
16 Tamworth
Philatelic Society
Inc Newsletter for
July amp August 2015
29 June 2015
17 PHILAS Auction
Catalogue for
Auction 121 Saturday 11 July 2015
26 June 2015
- Page - 20 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
AAA Stamps tables at Expo 2015 in April Steve Burton is talking to Phil Morehouse
(on the left) and another customer
Tony Byrne at Expo 2015 in April setting up his tables
- Page - 5 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
THE NEXT LUNCH-TIME MEETING is at midday Monday
13th July 2015 at the Orange Community Information amp Services
Centre 79 Kite St Itrsquos a great opportunity to swap stamps No theme helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip
Thanks to Australian Stamps Professional Magazine for their kind donation of back copies for
our EXPO 2015 Pick the current issue up at your newsagent or email infozoicomau Most
Orange newsagents now keep it
wwwaustralianstampspr
Hunter Arcade Sydney 2000 ndash Lower Concourse Wynyard Railway Station Ph (02) 9299 2047 amp Fax
(02) 9290 3710Their e-mail address is saleswynyardcoinscomau
The Wynyard Coin Centre was a sponsor of our Expo 2015 We thank them for their kind donation of books for our library and the ldquosample bagsrdquo for Expo visitor
helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip
Thanks also to
Orangersquos ODEON5 Cinema for their kind donation of prizes for the Expo 2015 youth competitions
helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip
ORANGE STAMPS and COINS PO Box 9288 Orange2800
Email howardlyonsbigpondcom
FOR ALL YOUR ACCESSORIES Available at the Clubrsquos monthly fair in the Orange Cultural Centre
I would like to thank all those members of the Club who gave up their time to provide assistance with the running of the Orange Stamps and Coins Auction 3 it was indeed very much appreciated I believe an event such as this would not take place if it wasnt for your help and support I do hope that I can again call on your services again next year when we shall endeavour to do Auction 4 Howard
- Page - 6 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUBrsquoS
2015 SPRING FAIR
amp auction
In the KENNA HALL 90 Hill Street Orange
DISPLAYS OF COINS amp STAMPS INFORMATION VALUATIONS CLUB STAMP amp COIN DEALERS amp
AUCTION
SATURDAY 17th October 2015 9am to 5pm
Admission $2 accompanied kids free
Stamp amp Coin Auction starts at 230pm
Auction lot viewing from 9am to 1230pm
MEMBERS - THE CLUB NEEDS YOUR LOTS FOR THE SPRING FAIR AUCTION ON SATURDAY 17th OCTOBER 2015 START PREPARING YOUR LOT DESCRIPTIONS Contact the auction co-ordinator Col Davidson
- Page - 7 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Orange Stamps amp Coinsrsquo auction in progress on 13 June 2015
Ray Norman talking to Tony Richards on the Club table at Expo 2015 April 2015
- Page - 8 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
ORANGE STAMPS and COINS PO Box 9288 Orange
Email howardlyonsbigpondcom Phone 6362 2368
2015 ANZAC Day $2 Red Uncirculated Australian Decimal Coin
plus the latest Royal Australian Mint issues
Still in stock and available Saturday July 4th at the Cultural Centre -----------------------------
Presently awaiting the arrival of the
2015 ANZACS Remembered 20c amp $1 War
Heroes ndash Set of 15 coins
Direct from the Royal Australian Mint - RRP ( to be advised)
- Page - 9 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
MINT UNCIRCULATED
Time to change - 1
A recent article in the CWD referred to money presumably notes and coins being
replaced by debit and credit cards This is close to reality when shopping for several
items or expensive ones but I canrsquot imagine using a card for buying small items such as
the CWD especially for sums less than our current smallest note of $5 Even now many
businesses have minimum limits before debit cards are acceptable The collection plate
on Sundays would be comparatively lean if no coins were available
Time to change - 2
In the past week or so I have seen a TV ad asking for donations of 5c pieces to fund
foreign aid charities Suggestions have been around for a while that this denomination is
destined to follow the 1c and 2
c coins into extinction No doubt itrsquos time to start rounding
up the prices to the nearest 10c A quick check of my pocket revealed a lonely 5
c among
mostly 20c and $2 coins
Lawrence Sherwin
Lawrence Sherwinrsquos display of coinage of Richard III won the numismatic competition at the Clubrsquos 2015 Expo in April
- Page - 10 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The First Caliphate
When the prophet Mohammed died in AD 630 his followers elected a new leader of the Moslems with the title of Caliph Arabic for successor combining the roles of civil and religious leader A century later the Caliphate had expanded from Arabia into an empire that stretched from Spain across North Africa through the Middle East as far as the border with modern India This vast empire had a short lifetime as a result of Islamic factional politics and consisted of little more than modern Iraq when obliterated by the Mongols in AD 1258
The Caliphate at about its greatest extent showing the location of some mints (Wikipedia) The early coinage of the Caliphate was copied from Roman (Byzantine) prototypes in gold and copper and Iranian types in silver Purely Islamic types took nearly 50 years to appear and were distinguished by purely epigraphic (non-figural) types Early issues of the Caliphate showed the mint and date but were otherwise anonymous The denominations struck by the Caliphs and most Islamic states were the gold dinar the silver dirhem and copper fals With the passing years as the Caliphate disintegrated into a multitude of warring Islamic states many with leaders calling themselves caliph it became necessary for the true Caliph to be identified on the coins as the responsible issuer
- Page - 11 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
EARLY ISLAMIC Gold Dinar (20mm 427 g) Dated AH 83 (703 AD)
LATER ISLAMIC Gold Dinar (24mm 598 g) Tustar min al-Ahwaz mint Extra inscription was necessary to identify the caliph Dated AH 325 (AD 9367)
Caliphate Early silver dirhem closely modelled on Iranian (Persian) types (32mm 407 g) Kirman mint Dated AH 67 (AD 6867)
Political instability was as much a feature of the first caliphate as of the current one The caliph al-Muntasir (AD 861-862)
murdered his predecessor and was himself murdered after a reign of six months Silver dirhem (19mm 288 g) Surra man rarsquoa (Samarra) mint Dated AH 248 (AD 862)
Later Caliphate Silver Dirhem (23mm 297 g) of non-pictorial type Er-Rafiqat (Rakka) mint Dated AH 290 (AD 9023
- Page - 12 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The early copper coinage of the Caliphate was modelled very closely on Roman (Byzantine) types This fals has replaced the emperorrsquos name with that of the mint Damascus written in Greek characters Otherwise it is a close copy of a Roman follis even retaining crosses in the design Circa 680s AElig Fals (20mm 415 g) Damascus mint
Copper fals (185mm 307 g) Halab (Aleppo) mint Struck circa 690s The cross soon disappeared from the fals and the image of the emperor was replaced by that of the caliph The inscriptions were now entirely in Arabic
Pictorial designs disappeared altogether within a few years because of Islamic disapproval of images which might be deemed idolatry This fals (17mm 496 g) struck in Seville Spain in AH 108 (AD 7267) is typical of subsequent copper coinage
with inscriptions only
Images courtesy of CNG
Lawrence Sherwin
A 1938 AIR MAIL FROM NEW ZEALAND TO SAN
FRANCISCO via AMERCAN SAMOA AND HAWAII
Kingsford-Smith was the first person to fly across the Pacific in the Southern Cross in 1938
Ten years later Pan American Airways had an ambitious plan to commence an air mail service from San
Francisco to New Zealand Juan Trippe and his investors wanted originally to fly the lucrative and
prestigious air mail and passenger route across the Atlantic Ocean but they could not get permission In
1934 they had acquired two Martin M130 and three Sikorsky S-42 clippers ndash 42 million worth of aircraft
They needed an ocean to cross ndash so they chose the Pacific
- Page - 13 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Their first successful route was from San Francisco to Manila in the American territory of the Philippines
Captain Edwin Musick set off on the first survey flight on 17 April 1935 He replaced the passenger cabin
with auxiliary fuel tanks In June the S-42 flew from Hawaii to Midway In August it flew to Wake Island
and by October it flew across the Pacific to Guam
Pan Amrsquos first route across the Pacific with connections to Macau Hong Kong Canton Shanghai amp Beijing
The first regular mail amp passenger carrying Pan Am clipper flight arrived in manila on 29 November 1935
under the command of Captain Ed Musick The passenger fare was US$95
After that Martin M130 clippers left San Francisco every Wednesday for Manila Later it connected with
another Pan American flying boat service to Hong Kong and Macau ndash until the disappearance of the Hawaii
Clipper in 1938 when Pan Am was left with only two Martin clippers The service to Manila had to be
reduced to three times a month
Captain Musick arriving in Honolulu in a Sikorsky S-42 Clipper after the first Pacific survey flight April
1935
With delays in setting up an Atlantic service Pan Am began surveying new routes to New Zealand
- Page - 14 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
In March 1937 Captain Ed Musick took to survey a route using a landing on Kingman Reef and at Pago
Pago in American Samoa These were the only spots were America had any sovereignty This route was
dangerous and probably ill-advised The British amp French-governed colonies did not give approval to Pan
Am set up flying boat bases
The first official airmail was flown between Auckland and San Francisco on 2 January 1938 The plane the
Samoan Clipper was a Sikorsky S-42B flying boat The pilot again was Ed Musick The plane had
landed in Auckland on 26 December after a journey from San Francisco but no air mail had been carried
from the United States
The plane left Auckland on 2 January with a hold full of mail (but no passengers) and arrived at Pago Pago
in American Samoa on 1 January (because of the International Date Line) It arrived in Hawaii on 3 January
and the mail was transferred to a Martin flying boat operating on the regular Pan Am Manila to San
Francisco Route The mail arrived in San Francisco on 6 January The rate to both the US and the UK was
46d
lsquoSamoa Clipperrsquo in Auckland Harbour very-late-December 1937 The Centaurus is behind
Earlier in 1937 the Centaurus had inaugurated the England to Australia air route for Imperial
Airways
- Page - 15 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Captain Ed Musick and his entire crew were tragically killed a fortnight later on 11 January 1938 on the
return flight to New Zealand The SB42B flying boat developed an oil leak after taking off form Pago Pago
The aircraft jettisoned fuel in an attempt to lighten the aircraft as they attempted to return to Pago Pago The
fuel ignited as vapours built up in the wing structure and the plane exploded in flame The service was
terminated and not restored until it 1940 Then the US Army Air Service needed to provide a service across
the Pacific because German invasions in Europe had cut off the direct route from Australia amp New Zealand
to the USA and the United Kingdom
Two covers flown on the first Auckland to San Francisco air mail service (The back of one and the
front of another)
- Page - 16 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
WORLD TOILET DAY STAMPS
One of our members brought along to our last meeting a colour photocopy of a letter
from Samoa to the Uniting Church in Orange showing a $2 World Toilet Day stamp
World Toilet Day is a big United Nations event Much of the Third World is ravaged
by disease because of the inadequate provision of proper toilets Around 3000
children die every day because of poor sanitation
On 26 November 2014 Samoa issued a stamp to demonstrate the importance hygiene
and sanitation in Samoa It was launched by the Deputy Prime Minister Fonote Laufo
who also opened two Garden Toilets He acknowledged the help of the European
Union and the World Bank in providing better sanitation in Samoa
- Page - 17 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The Republic of San Marino has also produced World Toilet Day stamps-
The 2015 issue has an appropriate postmark
It is not a subject that Australia Post has been big on
- Page - 18 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Correspondence list for Orange Coin amp Stamp Club meeting of 30 June2015
Item Date in Action
1
2 Letter from Orange
Councilrsquos
Community Info amp
Services Centre of
25 May re info for
Community
Information Guide
28 May 2015 Replied to on 28 May
updating the Clubrsquos
information for 2015-
2016
3 The Wagga Stamp
Club (Inc)
Newsletter for June
2015 9pp
29 May 2015
4 Bathurst Stamp
Coin Collectables amp
Lapidary Club
Newsletter for May amp
June 2015
By e-mail on 31 May
2015
5 Queensland
Numismatic Society
Inc Monthly
Magazine for May
2015
4 June 2015
6 PHILAS News for
June 201 3 copies
4 June 2015 Copies to publicity officer
amp to president on 6 June
Contains a half-page
report on Expo
7 MR Robertsrsquo
NUMI$NEWS for
June 2015
4 June 2015
8 Letter from Orange
Council re Hire Fees
for Cultural Centre
dated 1 June 2015
5 June 2015 Discussed at Monthly Fair
on 6 June 2015 Draft
reply has been prepared
For discussion
9 Gladstone amp District
Philatelic Societyrsquos
The Gladstone Bag
for 10 June 2015
5 June 2015
10 Australian Philatelc
Traders lsquoAssociation
APTA 2015
Yearbook 1 copy
9 June 2015
- Page - 19 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
28pp
11 Leonard G Morel of
leonxnlizzycomau
Banknote list amp Coin
list for June 2015 2
copies of each
11 June 2015
12 Statement from
Prime Media Group
Pty Ltd dated 8 June
15 June 2015 For treasurer
13 Maitland amp District
Coin Clubrsquos
Newsletter for July
2015
22 June 2015
14 Bathurst C S C
amp Lap Clubrsquos
Bathex 2015
Exhibition and
Bathurst Centenary
Information e-
Newsletter Issue 10
May 2015
By e-mail on 23 June
2015
Some hard copies made amp
to go out as a pdf e-mail
attachment
15 Australian Stamps
Professional magazine for June-
July 2015
26 June 2015
16 Tamworth
Philatelic Society
Inc Newsletter for
July amp August 2015
29 June 2015
17 PHILAS Auction
Catalogue for
Auction 121 Saturday 11 July 2015
26 June 2015
- Page - 20 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
AAA Stamps tables at Expo 2015 in April Steve Burton is talking to Phil Morehouse
(on the left) and another customer
Tony Byrne at Expo 2015 in April setting up his tables
- Page - 6 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUBrsquoS
2015 SPRING FAIR
amp auction
In the KENNA HALL 90 Hill Street Orange
DISPLAYS OF COINS amp STAMPS INFORMATION VALUATIONS CLUB STAMP amp COIN DEALERS amp
AUCTION
SATURDAY 17th October 2015 9am to 5pm
Admission $2 accompanied kids free
Stamp amp Coin Auction starts at 230pm
Auction lot viewing from 9am to 1230pm
MEMBERS - THE CLUB NEEDS YOUR LOTS FOR THE SPRING FAIR AUCTION ON SATURDAY 17th OCTOBER 2015 START PREPARING YOUR LOT DESCRIPTIONS Contact the auction co-ordinator Col Davidson
- Page - 7 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Orange Stamps amp Coinsrsquo auction in progress on 13 June 2015
Ray Norman talking to Tony Richards on the Club table at Expo 2015 April 2015
- Page - 8 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
ORANGE STAMPS and COINS PO Box 9288 Orange
Email howardlyonsbigpondcom Phone 6362 2368
2015 ANZAC Day $2 Red Uncirculated Australian Decimal Coin
plus the latest Royal Australian Mint issues
Still in stock and available Saturday July 4th at the Cultural Centre -----------------------------
Presently awaiting the arrival of the
2015 ANZACS Remembered 20c amp $1 War
Heroes ndash Set of 15 coins
Direct from the Royal Australian Mint - RRP ( to be advised)
- Page - 9 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
MINT UNCIRCULATED
Time to change - 1
A recent article in the CWD referred to money presumably notes and coins being
replaced by debit and credit cards This is close to reality when shopping for several
items or expensive ones but I canrsquot imagine using a card for buying small items such as
the CWD especially for sums less than our current smallest note of $5 Even now many
businesses have minimum limits before debit cards are acceptable The collection plate
on Sundays would be comparatively lean if no coins were available
Time to change - 2
In the past week or so I have seen a TV ad asking for donations of 5c pieces to fund
foreign aid charities Suggestions have been around for a while that this denomination is
destined to follow the 1c and 2
c coins into extinction No doubt itrsquos time to start rounding
up the prices to the nearest 10c A quick check of my pocket revealed a lonely 5
c among
mostly 20c and $2 coins
Lawrence Sherwin
Lawrence Sherwinrsquos display of coinage of Richard III won the numismatic competition at the Clubrsquos 2015 Expo in April
- Page - 10 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The First Caliphate
When the prophet Mohammed died in AD 630 his followers elected a new leader of the Moslems with the title of Caliph Arabic for successor combining the roles of civil and religious leader A century later the Caliphate had expanded from Arabia into an empire that stretched from Spain across North Africa through the Middle East as far as the border with modern India This vast empire had a short lifetime as a result of Islamic factional politics and consisted of little more than modern Iraq when obliterated by the Mongols in AD 1258
The Caliphate at about its greatest extent showing the location of some mints (Wikipedia) The early coinage of the Caliphate was copied from Roman (Byzantine) prototypes in gold and copper and Iranian types in silver Purely Islamic types took nearly 50 years to appear and were distinguished by purely epigraphic (non-figural) types Early issues of the Caliphate showed the mint and date but were otherwise anonymous The denominations struck by the Caliphs and most Islamic states were the gold dinar the silver dirhem and copper fals With the passing years as the Caliphate disintegrated into a multitude of warring Islamic states many with leaders calling themselves caliph it became necessary for the true Caliph to be identified on the coins as the responsible issuer
- Page - 11 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
EARLY ISLAMIC Gold Dinar (20mm 427 g) Dated AH 83 (703 AD)
LATER ISLAMIC Gold Dinar (24mm 598 g) Tustar min al-Ahwaz mint Extra inscription was necessary to identify the caliph Dated AH 325 (AD 9367)
Caliphate Early silver dirhem closely modelled on Iranian (Persian) types (32mm 407 g) Kirman mint Dated AH 67 (AD 6867)
Political instability was as much a feature of the first caliphate as of the current one The caliph al-Muntasir (AD 861-862)
murdered his predecessor and was himself murdered after a reign of six months Silver dirhem (19mm 288 g) Surra man rarsquoa (Samarra) mint Dated AH 248 (AD 862)
Later Caliphate Silver Dirhem (23mm 297 g) of non-pictorial type Er-Rafiqat (Rakka) mint Dated AH 290 (AD 9023
- Page - 12 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The early copper coinage of the Caliphate was modelled very closely on Roman (Byzantine) types This fals has replaced the emperorrsquos name with that of the mint Damascus written in Greek characters Otherwise it is a close copy of a Roman follis even retaining crosses in the design Circa 680s AElig Fals (20mm 415 g) Damascus mint
Copper fals (185mm 307 g) Halab (Aleppo) mint Struck circa 690s The cross soon disappeared from the fals and the image of the emperor was replaced by that of the caliph The inscriptions were now entirely in Arabic
Pictorial designs disappeared altogether within a few years because of Islamic disapproval of images which might be deemed idolatry This fals (17mm 496 g) struck in Seville Spain in AH 108 (AD 7267) is typical of subsequent copper coinage
with inscriptions only
Images courtesy of CNG
Lawrence Sherwin
A 1938 AIR MAIL FROM NEW ZEALAND TO SAN
FRANCISCO via AMERCAN SAMOA AND HAWAII
Kingsford-Smith was the first person to fly across the Pacific in the Southern Cross in 1938
Ten years later Pan American Airways had an ambitious plan to commence an air mail service from San
Francisco to New Zealand Juan Trippe and his investors wanted originally to fly the lucrative and
prestigious air mail and passenger route across the Atlantic Ocean but they could not get permission In
1934 they had acquired two Martin M130 and three Sikorsky S-42 clippers ndash 42 million worth of aircraft
They needed an ocean to cross ndash so they chose the Pacific
- Page - 13 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Their first successful route was from San Francisco to Manila in the American territory of the Philippines
Captain Edwin Musick set off on the first survey flight on 17 April 1935 He replaced the passenger cabin
with auxiliary fuel tanks In June the S-42 flew from Hawaii to Midway In August it flew to Wake Island
and by October it flew across the Pacific to Guam
Pan Amrsquos first route across the Pacific with connections to Macau Hong Kong Canton Shanghai amp Beijing
The first regular mail amp passenger carrying Pan Am clipper flight arrived in manila on 29 November 1935
under the command of Captain Ed Musick The passenger fare was US$95
After that Martin M130 clippers left San Francisco every Wednesday for Manila Later it connected with
another Pan American flying boat service to Hong Kong and Macau ndash until the disappearance of the Hawaii
Clipper in 1938 when Pan Am was left with only two Martin clippers The service to Manila had to be
reduced to three times a month
Captain Musick arriving in Honolulu in a Sikorsky S-42 Clipper after the first Pacific survey flight April
1935
With delays in setting up an Atlantic service Pan Am began surveying new routes to New Zealand
- Page - 14 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
In March 1937 Captain Ed Musick took to survey a route using a landing on Kingman Reef and at Pago
Pago in American Samoa These were the only spots were America had any sovereignty This route was
dangerous and probably ill-advised The British amp French-governed colonies did not give approval to Pan
Am set up flying boat bases
The first official airmail was flown between Auckland and San Francisco on 2 January 1938 The plane the
Samoan Clipper was a Sikorsky S-42B flying boat The pilot again was Ed Musick The plane had
landed in Auckland on 26 December after a journey from San Francisco but no air mail had been carried
from the United States
The plane left Auckland on 2 January with a hold full of mail (but no passengers) and arrived at Pago Pago
in American Samoa on 1 January (because of the International Date Line) It arrived in Hawaii on 3 January
and the mail was transferred to a Martin flying boat operating on the regular Pan Am Manila to San
Francisco Route The mail arrived in San Francisco on 6 January The rate to both the US and the UK was
46d
lsquoSamoa Clipperrsquo in Auckland Harbour very-late-December 1937 The Centaurus is behind
Earlier in 1937 the Centaurus had inaugurated the England to Australia air route for Imperial
Airways
- Page - 15 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Captain Ed Musick and his entire crew were tragically killed a fortnight later on 11 January 1938 on the
return flight to New Zealand The SB42B flying boat developed an oil leak after taking off form Pago Pago
The aircraft jettisoned fuel in an attempt to lighten the aircraft as they attempted to return to Pago Pago The
fuel ignited as vapours built up in the wing structure and the plane exploded in flame The service was
terminated and not restored until it 1940 Then the US Army Air Service needed to provide a service across
the Pacific because German invasions in Europe had cut off the direct route from Australia amp New Zealand
to the USA and the United Kingdom
Two covers flown on the first Auckland to San Francisco air mail service (The back of one and the
front of another)
- Page - 16 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
WORLD TOILET DAY STAMPS
One of our members brought along to our last meeting a colour photocopy of a letter
from Samoa to the Uniting Church in Orange showing a $2 World Toilet Day stamp
World Toilet Day is a big United Nations event Much of the Third World is ravaged
by disease because of the inadequate provision of proper toilets Around 3000
children die every day because of poor sanitation
On 26 November 2014 Samoa issued a stamp to demonstrate the importance hygiene
and sanitation in Samoa It was launched by the Deputy Prime Minister Fonote Laufo
who also opened two Garden Toilets He acknowledged the help of the European
Union and the World Bank in providing better sanitation in Samoa
- Page - 17 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The Republic of San Marino has also produced World Toilet Day stamps-
The 2015 issue has an appropriate postmark
It is not a subject that Australia Post has been big on
- Page - 18 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Correspondence list for Orange Coin amp Stamp Club meeting of 30 June2015
Item Date in Action
1
2 Letter from Orange
Councilrsquos
Community Info amp
Services Centre of
25 May re info for
Community
Information Guide
28 May 2015 Replied to on 28 May
updating the Clubrsquos
information for 2015-
2016
3 The Wagga Stamp
Club (Inc)
Newsletter for June
2015 9pp
29 May 2015
4 Bathurst Stamp
Coin Collectables amp
Lapidary Club
Newsletter for May amp
June 2015
By e-mail on 31 May
2015
5 Queensland
Numismatic Society
Inc Monthly
Magazine for May
2015
4 June 2015
6 PHILAS News for
June 201 3 copies
4 June 2015 Copies to publicity officer
amp to president on 6 June
Contains a half-page
report on Expo
7 MR Robertsrsquo
NUMI$NEWS for
June 2015
4 June 2015
8 Letter from Orange
Council re Hire Fees
for Cultural Centre
dated 1 June 2015
5 June 2015 Discussed at Monthly Fair
on 6 June 2015 Draft
reply has been prepared
For discussion
9 Gladstone amp District
Philatelic Societyrsquos
The Gladstone Bag
for 10 June 2015
5 June 2015
10 Australian Philatelc
Traders lsquoAssociation
APTA 2015
Yearbook 1 copy
9 June 2015
- Page - 19 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
28pp
11 Leonard G Morel of
leonxnlizzycomau
Banknote list amp Coin
list for June 2015 2
copies of each
11 June 2015
12 Statement from
Prime Media Group
Pty Ltd dated 8 June
15 June 2015 For treasurer
13 Maitland amp District
Coin Clubrsquos
Newsletter for July
2015
22 June 2015
14 Bathurst C S C
amp Lap Clubrsquos
Bathex 2015
Exhibition and
Bathurst Centenary
Information e-
Newsletter Issue 10
May 2015
By e-mail on 23 June
2015
Some hard copies made amp
to go out as a pdf e-mail
attachment
15 Australian Stamps
Professional magazine for June-
July 2015
26 June 2015
16 Tamworth
Philatelic Society
Inc Newsletter for
July amp August 2015
29 June 2015
17 PHILAS Auction
Catalogue for
Auction 121 Saturday 11 July 2015
26 June 2015
- Page - 20 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
AAA Stamps tables at Expo 2015 in April Steve Burton is talking to Phil Morehouse
(on the left) and another customer
Tony Byrne at Expo 2015 in April setting up his tables
- Page - 7 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Orange Stamps amp Coinsrsquo auction in progress on 13 June 2015
Ray Norman talking to Tony Richards on the Club table at Expo 2015 April 2015
- Page - 8 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
ORANGE STAMPS and COINS PO Box 9288 Orange
Email howardlyonsbigpondcom Phone 6362 2368
2015 ANZAC Day $2 Red Uncirculated Australian Decimal Coin
plus the latest Royal Australian Mint issues
Still in stock and available Saturday July 4th at the Cultural Centre -----------------------------
Presently awaiting the arrival of the
2015 ANZACS Remembered 20c amp $1 War
Heroes ndash Set of 15 coins
Direct from the Royal Australian Mint - RRP ( to be advised)
- Page - 9 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
MINT UNCIRCULATED
Time to change - 1
A recent article in the CWD referred to money presumably notes and coins being
replaced by debit and credit cards This is close to reality when shopping for several
items or expensive ones but I canrsquot imagine using a card for buying small items such as
the CWD especially for sums less than our current smallest note of $5 Even now many
businesses have minimum limits before debit cards are acceptable The collection plate
on Sundays would be comparatively lean if no coins were available
Time to change - 2
In the past week or so I have seen a TV ad asking for donations of 5c pieces to fund
foreign aid charities Suggestions have been around for a while that this denomination is
destined to follow the 1c and 2
c coins into extinction No doubt itrsquos time to start rounding
up the prices to the nearest 10c A quick check of my pocket revealed a lonely 5
c among
mostly 20c and $2 coins
Lawrence Sherwin
Lawrence Sherwinrsquos display of coinage of Richard III won the numismatic competition at the Clubrsquos 2015 Expo in April
- Page - 10 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The First Caliphate
When the prophet Mohammed died in AD 630 his followers elected a new leader of the Moslems with the title of Caliph Arabic for successor combining the roles of civil and religious leader A century later the Caliphate had expanded from Arabia into an empire that stretched from Spain across North Africa through the Middle East as far as the border with modern India This vast empire had a short lifetime as a result of Islamic factional politics and consisted of little more than modern Iraq when obliterated by the Mongols in AD 1258
The Caliphate at about its greatest extent showing the location of some mints (Wikipedia) The early coinage of the Caliphate was copied from Roman (Byzantine) prototypes in gold and copper and Iranian types in silver Purely Islamic types took nearly 50 years to appear and were distinguished by purely epigraphic (non-figural) types Early issues of the Caliphate showed the mint and date but were otherwise anonymous The denominations struck by the Caliphs and most Islamic states were the gold dinar the silver dirhem and copper fals With the passing years as the Caliphate disintegrated into a multitude of warring Islamic states many with leaders calling themselves caliph it became necessary for the true Caliph to be identified on the coins as the responsible issuer
- Page - 11 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
EARLY ISLAMIC Gold Dinar (20mm 427 g) Dated AH 83 (703 AD)
LATER ISLAMIC Gold Dinar (24mm 598 g) Tustar min al-Ahwaz mint Extra inscription was necessary to identify the caliph Dated AH 325 (AD 9367)
Caliphate Early silver dirhem closely modelled on Iranian (Persian) types (32mm 407 g) Kirman mint Dated AH 67 (AD 6867)
Political instability was as much a feature of the first caliphate as of the current one The caliph al-Muntasir (AD 861-862)
murdered his predecessor and was himself murdered after a reign of six months Silver dirhem (19mm 288 g) Surra man rarsquoa (Samarra) mint Dated AH 248 (AD 862)
Later Caliphate Silver Dirhem (23mm 297 g) of non-pictorial type Er-Rafiqat (Rakka) mint Dated AH 290 (AD 9023
- Page - 12 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The early copper coinage of the Caliphate was modelled very closely on Roman (Byzantine) types This fals has replaced the emperorrsquos name with that of the mint Damascus written in Greek characters Otherwise it is a close copy of a Roman follis even retaining crosses in the design Circa 680s AElig Fals (20mm 415 g) Damascus mint
Copper fals (185mm 307 g) Halab (Aleppo) mint Struck circa 690s The cross soon disappeared from the fals and the image of the emperor was replaced by that of the caliph The inscriptions were now entirely in Arabic
Pictorial designs disappeared altogether within a few years because of Islamic disapproval of images which might be deemed idolatry This fals (17mm 496 g) struck in Seville Spain in AH 108 (AD 7267) is typical of subsequent copper coinage
with inscriptions only
Images courtesy of CNG
Lawrence Sherwin
A 1938 AIR MAIL FROM NEW ZEALAND TO SAN
FRANCISCO via AMERCAN SAMOA AND HAWAII
Kingsford-Smith was the first person to fly across the Pacific in the Southern Cross in 1938
Ten years later Pan American Airways had an ambitious plan to commence an air mail service from San
Francisco to New Zealand Juan Trippe and his investors wanted originally to fly the lucrative and
prestigious air mail and passenger route across the Atlantic Ocean but they could not get permission In
1934 they had acquired two Martin M130 and three Sikorsky S-42 clippers ndash 42 million worth of aircraft
They needed an ocean to cross ndash so they chose the Pacific
- Page - 13 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Their first successful route was from San Francisco to Manila in the American territory of the Philippines
Captain Edwin Musick set off on the first survey flight on 17 April 1935 He replaced the passenger cabin
with auxiliary fuel tanks In June the S-42 flew from Hawaii to Midway In August it flew to Wake Island
and by October it flew across the Pacific to Guam
Pan Amrsquos first route across the Pacific with connections to Macau Hong Kong Canton Shanghai amp Beijing
The first regular mail amp passenger carrying Pan Am clipper flight arrived in manila on 29 November 1935
under the command of Captain Ed Musick The passenger fare was US$95
After that Martin M130 clippers left San Francisco every Wednesday for Manila Later it connected with
another Pan American flying boat service to Hong Kong and Macau ndash until the disappearance of the Hawaii
Clipper in 1938 when Pan Am was left with only two Martin clippers The service to Manila had to be
reduced to three times a month
Captain Musick arriving in Honolulu in a Sikorsky S-42 Clipper after the first Pacific survey flight April
1935
With delays in setting up an Atlantic service Pan Am began surveying new routes to New Zealand
- Page - 14 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
In March 1937 Captain Ed Musick took to survey a route using a landing on Kingman Reef and at Pago
Pago in American Samoa These were the only spots were America had any sovereignty This route was
dangerous and probably ill-advised The British amp French-governed colonies did not give approval to Pan
Am set up flying boat bases
The first official airmail was flown between Auckland and San Francisco on 2 January 1938 The plane the
Samoan Clipper was a Sikorsky S-42B flying boat The pilot again was Ed Musick The plane had
landed in Auckland on 26 December after a journey from San Francisco but no air mail had been carried
from the United States
The plane left Auckland on 2 January with a hold full of mail (but no passengers) and arrived at Pago Pago
in American Samoa on 1 January (because of the International Date Line) It arrived in Hawaii on 3 January
and the mail was transferred to a Martin flying boat operating on the regular Pan Am Manila to San
Francisco Route The mail arrived in San Francisco on 6 January The rate to both the US and the UK was
46d
lsquoSamoa Clipperrsquo in Auckland Harbour very-late-December 1937 The Centaurus is behind
Earlier in 1937 the Centaurus had inaugurated the England to Australia air route for Imperial
Airways
- Page - 15 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Captain Ed Musick and his entire crew were tragically killed a fortnight later on 11 January 1938 on the
return flight to New Zealand The SB42B flying boat developed an oil leak after taking off form Pago Pago
The aircraft jettisoned fuel in an attempt to lighten the aircraft as they attempted to return to Pago Pago The
fuel ignited as vapours built up in the wing structure and the plane exploded in flame The service was
terminated and not restored until it 1940 Then the US Army Air Service needed to provide a service across
the Pacific because German invasions in Europe had cut off the direct route from Australia amp New Zealand
to the USA and the United Kingdom
Two covers flown on the first Auckland to San Francisco air mail service (The back of one and the
front of another)
- Page - 16 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
WORLD TOILET DAY STAMPS
One of our members brought along to our last meeting a colour photocopy of a letter
from Samoa to the Uniting Church in Orange showing a $2 World Toilet Day stamp
World Toilet Day is a big United Nations event Much of the Third World is ravaged
by disease because of the inadequate provision of proper toilets Around 3000
children die every day because of poor sanitation
On 26 November 2014 Samoa issued a stamp to demonstrate the importance hygiene
and sanitation in Samoa It was launched by the Deputy Prime Minister Fonote Laufo
who also opened two Garden Toilets He acknowledged the help of the European
Union and the World Bank in providing better sanitation in Samoa
- Page - 17 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The Republic of San Marino has also produced World Toilet Day stamps-
The 2015 issue has an appropriate postmark
It is not a subject that Australia Post has been big on
- Page - 18 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Correspondence list for Orange Coin amp Stamp Club meeting of 30 June2015
Item Date in Action
1
2 Letter from Orange
Councilrsquos
Community Info amp
Services Centre of
25 May re info for
Community
Information Guide
28 May 2015 Replied to on 28 May
updating the Clubrsquos
information for 2015-
2016
3 The Wagga Stamp
Club (Inc)
Newsletter for June
2015 9pp
29 May 2015
4 Bathurst Stamp
Coin Collectables amp
Lapidary Club
Newsletter for May amp
June 2015
By e-mail on 31 May
2015
5 Queensland
Numismatic Society
Inc Monthly
Magazine for May
2015
4 June 2015
6 PHILAS News for
June 201 3 copies
4 June 2015 Copies to publicity officer
amp to president on 6 June
Contains a half-page
report on Expo
7 MR Robertsrsquo
NUMI$NEWS for
June 2015
4 June 2015
8 Letter from Orange
Council re Hire Fees
for Cultural Centre
dated 1 June 2015
5 June 2015 Discussed at Monthly Fair
on 6 June 2015 Draft
reply has been prepared
For discussion
9 Gladstone amp District
Philatelic Societyrsquos
The Gladstone Bag
for 10 June 2015
5 June 2015
10 Australian Philatelc
Traders lsquoAssociation
APTA 2015
Yearbook 1 copy
9 June 2015
- Page - 19 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
28pp
11 Leonard G Morel of
leonxnlizzycomau
Banknote list amp Coin
list for June 2015 2
copies of each
11 June 2015
12 Statement from
Prime Media Group
Pty Ltd dated 8 June
15 June 2015 For treasurer
13 Maitland amp District
Coin Clubrsquos
Newsletter for July
2015
22 June 2015
14 Bathurst C S C
amp Lap Clubrsquos
Bathex 2015
Exhibition and
Bathurst Centenary
Information e-
Newsletter Issue 10
May 2015
By e-mail on 23 June
2015
Some hard copies made amp
to go out as a pdf e-mail
attachment
15 Australian Stamps
Professional magazine for June-
July 2015
26 June 2015
16 Tamworth
Philatelic Society
Inc Newsletter for
July amp August 2015
29 June 2015
17 PHILAS Auction
Catalogue for
Auction 121 Saturday 11 July 2015
26 June 2015
- Page - 20 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
AAA Stamps tables at Expo 2015 in April Steve Burton is talking to Phil Morehouse
(on the left) and another customer
Tony Byrne at Expo 2015 in April setting up his tables
- Page - 8 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
ORANGE STAMPS and COINS PO Box 9288 Orange
Email howardlyonsbigpondcom Phone 6362 2368
2015 ANZAC Day $2 Red Uncirculated Australian Decimal Coin
plus the latest Royal Australian Mint issues
Still in stock and available Saturday July 4th at the Cultural Centre -----------------------------
Presently awaiting the arrival of the
2015 ANZACS Remembered 20c amp $1 War
Heroes ndash Set of 15 coins
Direct from the Royal Australian Mint - RRP ( to be advised)
- Page - 9 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
MINT UNCIRCULATED
Time to change - 1
A recent article in the CWD referred to money presumably notes and coins being
replaced by debit and credit cards This is close to reality when shopping for several
items or expensive ones but I canrsquot imagine using a card for buying small items such as
the CWD especially for sums less than our current smallest note of $5 Even now many
businesses have minimum limits before debit cards are acceptable The collection plate
on Sundays would be comparatively lean if no coins were available
Time to change - 2
In the past week or so I have seen a TV ad asking for donations of 5c pieces to fund
foreign aid charities Suggestions have been around for a while that this denomination is
destined to follow the 1c and 2
c coins into extinction No doubt itrsquos time to start rounding
up the prices to the nearest 10c A quick check of my pocket revealed a lonely 5
c among
mostly 20c and $2 coins
Lawrence Sherwin
Lawrence Sherwinrsquos display of coinage of Richard III won the numismatic competition at the Clubrsquos 2015 Expo in April
- Page - 10 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The First Caliphate
When the prophet Mohammed died in AD 630 his followers elected a new leader of the Moslems with the title of Caliph Arabic for successor combining the roles of civil and religious leader A century later the Caliphate had expanded from Arabia into an empire that stretched from Spain across North Africa through the Middle East as far as the border with modern India This vast empire had a short lifetime as a result of Islamic factional politics and consisted of little more than modern Iraq when obliterated by the Mongols in AD 1258
The Caliphate at about its greatest extent showing the location of some mints (Wikipedia) The early coinage of the Caliphate was copied from Roman (Byzantine) prototypes in gold and copper and Iranian types in silver Purely Islamic types took nearly 50 years to appear and were distinguished by purely epigraphic (non-figural) types Early issues of the Caliphate showed the mint and date but were otherwise anonymous The denominations struck by the Caliphs and most Islamic states were the gold dinar the silver dirhem and copper fals With the passing years as the Caliphate disintegrated into a multitude of warring Islamic states many with leaders calling themselves caliph it became necessary for the true Caliph to be identified on the coins as the responsible issuer
- Page - 11 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
EARLY ISLAMIC Gold Dinar (20mm 427 g) Dated AH 83 (703 AD)
LATER ISLAMIC Gold Dinar (24mm 598 g) Tustar min al-Ahwaz mint Extra inscription was necessary to identify the caliph Dated AH 325 (AD 9367)
Caliphate Early silver dirhem closely modelled on Iranian (Persian) types (32mm 407 g) Kirman mint Dated AH 67 (AD 6867)
Political instability was as much a feature of the first caliphate as of the current one The caliph al-Muntasir (AD 861-862)
murdered his predecessor and was himself murdered after a reign of six months Silver dirhem (19mm 288 g) Surra man rarsquoa (Samarra) mint Dated AH 248 (AD 862)
Later Caliphate Silver Dirhem (23mm 297 g) of non-pictorial type Er-Rafiqat (Rakka) mint Dated AH 290 (AD 9023
- Page - 12 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The early copper coinage of the Caliphate was modelled very closely on Roman (Byzantine) types This fals has replaced the emperorrsquos name with that of the mint Damascus written in Greek characters Otherwise it is a close copy of a Roman follis even retaining crosses in the design Circa 680s AElig Fals (20mm 415 g) Damascus mint
Copper fals (185mm 307 g) Halab (Aleppo) mint Struck circa 690s The cross soon disappeared from the fals and the image of the emperor was replaced by that of the caliph The inscriptions were now entirely in Arabic
Pictorial designs disappeared altogether within a few years because of Islamic disapproval of images which might be deemed idolatry This fals (17mm 496 g) struck in Seville Spain in AH 108 (AD 7267) is typical of subsequent copper coinage
with inscriptions only
Images courtesy of CNG
Lawrence Sherwin
A 1938 AIR MAIL FROM NEW ZEALAND TO SAN
FRANCISCO via AMERCAN SAMOA AND HAWAII
Kingsford-Smith was the first person to fly across the Pacific in the Southern Cross in 1938
Ten years later Pan American Airways had an ambitious plan to commence an air mail service from San
Francisco to New Zealand Juan Trippe and his investors wanted originally to fly the lucrative and
prestigious air mail and passenger route across the Atlantic Ocean but they could not get permission In
1934 they had acquired two Martin M130 and three Sikorsky S-42 clippers ndash 42 million worth of aircraft
They needed an ocean to cross ndash so they chose the Pacific
- Page - 13 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Their first successful route was from San Francisco to Manila in the American territory of the Philippines
Captain Edwin Musick set off on the first survey flight on 17 April 1935 He replaced the passenger cabin
with auxiliary fuel tanks In June the S-42 flew from Hawaii to Midway In August it flew to Wake Island
and by October it flew across the Pacific to Guam
Pan Amrsquos first route across the Pacific with connections to Macau Hong Kong Canton Shanghai amp Beijing
The first regular mail amp passenger carrying Pan Am clipper flight arrived in manila on 29 November 1935
under the command of Captain Ed Musick The passenger fare was US$95
After that Martin M130 clippers left San Francisco every Wednesday for Manila Later it connected with
another Pan American flying boat service to Hong Kong and Macau ndash until the disappearance of the Hawaii
Clipper in 1938 when Pan Am was left with only two Martin clippers The service to Manila had to be
reduced to three times a month
Captain Musick arriving in Honolulu in a Sikorsky S-42 Clipper after the first Pacific survey flight April
1935
With delays in setting up an Atlantic service Pan Am began surveying new routes to New Zealand
- Page - 14 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
In March 1937 Captain Ed Musick took to survey a route using a landing on Kingman Reef and at Pago
Pago in American Samoa These were the only spots were America had any sovereignty This route was
dangerous and probably ill-advised The British amp French-governed colonies did not give approval to Pan
Am set up flying boat bases
The first official airmail was flown between Auckland and San Francisco on 2 January 1938 The plane the
Samoan Clipper was a Sikorsky S-42B flying boat The pilot again was Ed Musick The plane had
landed in Auckland on 26 December after a journey from San Francisco but no air mail had been carried
from the United States
The plane left Auckland on 2 January with a hold full of mail (but no passengers) and arrived at Pago Pago
in American Samoa on 1 January (because of the International Date Line) It arrived in Hawaii on 3 January
and the mail was transferred to a Martin flying boat operating on the regular Pan Am Manila to San
Francisco Route The mail arrived in San Francisco on 6 January The rate to both the US and the UK was
46d
lsquoSamoa Clipperrsquo in Auckland Harbour very-late-December 1937 The Centaurus is behind
Earlier in 1937 the Centaurus had inaugurated the England to Australia air route for Imperial
Airways
- Page - 15 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Captain Ed Musick and his entire crew were tragically killed a fortnight later on 11 January 1938 on the
return flight to New Zealand The SB42B flying boat developed an oil leak after taking off form Pago Pago
The aircraft jettisoned fuel in an attempt to lighten the aircraft as they attempted to return to Pago Pago The
fuel ignited as vapours built up in the wing structure and the plane exploded in flame The service was
terminated and not restored until it 1940 Then the US Army Air Service needed to provide a service across
the Pacific because German invasions in Europe had cut off the direct route from Australia amp New Zealand
to the USA and the United Kingdom
Two covers flown on the first Auckland to San Francisco air mail service (The back of one and the
front of another)
- Page - 16 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
WORLD TOILET DAY STAMPS
One of our members brought along to our last meeting a colour photocopy of a letter
from Samoa to the Uniting Church in Orange showing a $2 World Toilet Day stamp
World Toilet Day is a big United Nations event Much of the Third World is ravaged
by disease because of the inadequate provision of proper toilets Around 3000
children die every day because of poor sanitation
On 26 November 2014 Samoa issued a stamp to demonstrate the importance hygiene
and sanitation in Samoa It was launched by the Deputy Prime Minister Fonote Laufo
who also opened two Garden Toilets He acknowledged the help of the European
Union and the World Bank in providing better sanitation in Samoa
- Page - 17 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The Republic of San Marino has also produced World Toilet Day stamps-
The 2015 issue has an appropriate postmark
It is not a subject that Australia Post has been big on
- Page - 18 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Correspondence list for Orange Coin amp Stamp Club meeting of 30 June2015
Item Date in Action
1
2 Letter from Orange
Councilrsquos
Community Info amp
Services Centre of
25 May re info for
Community
Information Guide
28 May 2015 Replied to on 28 May
updating the Clubrsquos
information for 2015-
2016
3 The Wagga Stamp
Club (Inc)
Newsletter for June
2015 9pp
29 May 2015
4 Bathurst Stamp
Coin Collectables amp
Lapidary Club
Newsletter for May amp
June 2015
By e-mail on 31 May
2015
5 Queensland
Numismatic Society
Inc Monthly
Magazine for May
2015
4 June 2015
6 PHILAS News for
June 201 3 copies
4 June 2015 Copies to publicity officer
amp to president on 6 June
Contains a half-page
report on Expo
7 MR Robertsrsquo
NUMI$NEWS for
June 2015
4 June 2015
8 Letter from Orange
Council re Hire Fees
for Cultural Centre
dated 1 June 2015
5 June 2015 Discussed at Monthly Fair
on 6 June 2015 Draft
reply has been prepared
For discussion
9 Gladstone amp District
Philatelic Societyrsquos
The Gladstone Bag
for 10 June 2015
5 June 2015
10 Australian Philatelc
Traders lsquoAssociation
APTA 2015
Yearbook 1 copy
9 June 2015
- Page - 19 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
28pp
11 Leonard G Morel of
leonxnlizzycomau
Banknote list amp Coin
list for June 2015 2
copies of each
11 June 2015
12 Statement from
Prime Media Group
Pty Ltd dated 8 June
15 June 2015 For treasurer
13 Maitland amp District
Coin Clubrsquos
Newsletter for July
2015
22 June 2015
14 Bathurst C S C
amp Lap Clubrsquos
Bathex 2015
Exhibition and
Bathurst Centenary
Information e-
Newsletter Issue 10
May 2015
By e-mail on 23 June
2015
Some hard copies made amp
to go out as a pdf e-mail
attachment
15 Australian Stamps
Professional magazine for June-
July 2015
26 June 2015
16 Tamworth
Philatelic Society
Inc Newsletter for
July amp August 2015
29 June 2015
17 PHILAS Auction
Catalogue for
Auction 121 Saturday 11 July 2015
26 June 2015
- Page - 20 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
AAA Stamps tables at Expo 2015 in April Steve Burton is talking to Phil Morehouse
(on the left) and another customer
Tony Byrne at Expo 2015 in April setting up his tables
- Page - 9 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
MINT UNCIRCULATED
Time to change - 1
A recent article in the CWD referred to money presumably notes and coins being
replaced by debit and credit cards This is close to reality when shopping for several
items or expensive ones but I canrsquot imagine using a card for buying small items such as
the CWD especially for sums less than our current smallest note of $5 Even now many
businesses have minimum limits before debit cards are acceptable The collection plate
on Sundays would be comparatively lean if no coins were available
Time to change - 2
In the past week or so I have seen a TV ad asking for donations of 5c pieces to fund
foreign aid charities Suggestions have been around for a while that this denomination is
destined to follow the 1c and 2
c coins into extinction No doubt itrsquos time to start rounding
up the prices to the nearest 10c A quick check of my pocket revealed a lonely 5
c among
mostly 20c and $2 coins
Lawrence Sherwin
Lawrence Sherwinrsquos display of coinage of Richard III won the numismatic competition at the Clubrsquos 2015 Expo in April
- Page - 10 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The First Caliphate
When the prophet Mohammed died in AD 630 his followers elected a new leader of the Moslems with the title of Caliph Arabic for successor combining the roles of civil and religious leader A century later the Caliphate had expanded from Arabia into an empire that stretched from Spain across North Africa through the Middle East as far as the border with modern India This vast empire had a short lifetime as a result of Islamic factional politics and consisted of little more than modern Iraq when obliterated by the Mongols in AD 1258
The Caliphate at about its greatest extent showing the location of some mints (Wikipedia) The early coinage of the Caliphate was copied from Roman (Byzantine) prototypes in gold and copper and Iranian types in silver Purely Islamic types took nearly 50 years to appear and were distinguished by purely epigraphic (non-figural) types Early issues of the Caliphate showed the mint and date but were otherwise anonymous The denominations struck by the Caliphs and most Islamic states were the gold dinar the silver dirhem and copper fals With the passing years as the Caliphate disintegrated into a multitude of warring Islamic states many with leaders calling themselves caliph it became necessary for the true Caliph to be identified on the coins as the responsible issuer
- Page - 11 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
EARLY ISLAMIC Gold Dinar (20mm 427 g) Dated AH 83 (703 AD)
LATER ISLAMIC Gold Dinar (24mm 598 g) Tustar min al-Ahwaz mint Extra inscription was necessary to identify the caliph Dated AH 325 (AD 9367)
Caliphate Early silver dirhem closely modelled on Iranian (Persian) types (32mm 407 g) Kirman mint Dated AH 67 (AD 6867)
Political instability was as much a feature of the first caliphate as of the current one The caliph al-Muntasir (AD 861-862)
murdered his predecessor and was himself murdered after a reign of six months Silver dirhem (19mm 288 g) Surra man rarsquoa (Samarra) mint Dated AH 248 (AD 862)
Later Caliphate Silver Dirhem (23mm 297 g) of non-pictorial type Er-Rafiqat (Rakka) mint Dated AH 290 (AD 9023
- Page - 12 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The early copper coinage of the Caliphate was modelled very closely on Roman (Byzantine) types This fals has replaced the emperorrsquos name with that of the mint Damascus written in Greek characters Otherwise it is a close copy of a Roman follis even retaining crosses in the design Circa 680s AElig Fals (20mm 415 g) Damascus mint
Copper fals (185mm 307 g) Halab (Aleppo) mint Struck circa 690s The cross soon disappeared from the fals and the image of the emperor was replaced by that of the caliph The inscriptions were now entirely in Arabic
Pictorial designs disappeared altogether within a few years because of Islamic disapproval of images which might be deemed idolatry This fals (17mm 496 g) struck in Seville Spain in AH 108 (AD 7267) is typical of subsequent copper coinage
with inscriptions only
Images courtesy of CNG
Lawrence Sherwin
A 1938 AIR MAIL FROM NEW ZEALAND TO SAN
FRANCISCO via AMERCAN SAMOA AND HAWAII
Kingsford-Smith was the first person to fly across the Pacific in the Southern Cross in 1938
Ten years later Pan American Airways had an ambitious plan to commence an air mail service from San
Francisco to New Zealand Juan Trippe and his investors wanted originally to fly the lucrative and
prestigious air mail and passenger route across the Atlantic Ocean but they could not get permission In
1934 they had acquired two Martin M130 and three Sikorsky S-42 clippers ndash 42 million worth of aircraft
They needed an ocean to cross ndash so they chose the Pacific
- Page - 13 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Their first successful route was from San Francisco to Manila in the American territory of the Philippines
Captain Edwin Musick set off on the first survey flight on 17 April 1935 He replaced the passenger cabin
with auxiliary fuel tanks In June the S-42 flew from Hawaii to Midway In August it flew to Wake Island
and by October it flew across the Pacific to Guam
Pan Amrsquos first route across the Pacific with connections to Macau Hong Kong Canton Shanghai amp Beijing
The first regular mail amp passenger carrying Pan Am clipper flight arrived in manila on 29 November 1935
under the command of Captain Ed Musick The passenger fare was US$95
After that Martin M130 clippers left San Francisco every Wednesday for Manila Later it connected with
another Pan American flying boat service to Hong Kong and Macau ndash until the disappearance of the Hawaii
Clipper in 1938 when Pan Am was left with only two Martin clippers The service to Manila had to be
reduced to three times a month
Captain Musick arriving in Honolulu in a Sikorsky S-42 Clipper after the first Pacific survey flight April
1935
With delays in setting up an Atlantic service Pan Am began surveying new routes to New Zealand
- Page - 14 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
In March 1937 Captain Ed Musick took to survey a route using a landing on Kingman Reef and at Pago
Pago in American Samoa These were the only spots were America had any sovereignty This route was
dangerous and probably ill-advised The British amp French-governed colonies did not give approval to Pan
Am set up flying boat bases
The first official airmail was flown between Auckland and San Francisco on 2 January 1938 The plane the
Samoan Clipper was a Sikorsky S-42B flying boat The pilot again was Ed Musick The plane had
landed in Auckland on 26 December after a journey from San Francisco but no air mail had been carried
from the United States
The plane left Auckland on 2 January with a hold full of mail (but no passengers) and arrived at Pago Pago
in American Samoa on 1 January (because of the International Date Line) It arrived in Hawaii on 3 January
and the mail was transferred to a Martin flying boat operating on the regular Pan Am Manila to San
Francisco Route The mail arrived in San Francisco on 6 January The rate to both the US and the UK was
46d
lsquoSamoa Clipperrsquo in Auckland Harbour very-late-December 1937 The Centaurus is behind
Earlier in 1937 the Centaurus had inaugurated the England to Australia air route for Imperial
Airways
- Page - 15 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Captain Ed Musick and his entire crew were tragically killed a fortnight later on 11 January 1938 on the
return flight to New Zealand The SB42B flying boat developed an oil leak after taking off form Pago Pago
The aircraft jettisoned fuel in an attempt to lighten the aircraft as they attempted to return to Pago Pago The
fuel ignited as vapours built up in the wing structure and the plane exploded in flame The service was
terminated and not restored until it 1940 Then the US Army Air Service needed to provide a service across
the Pacific because German invasions in Europe had cut off the direct route from Australia amp New Zealand
to the USA and the United Kingdom
Two covers flown on the first Auckland to San Francisco air mail service (The back of one and the
front of another)
- Page - 16 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
WORLD TOILET DAY STAMPS
One of our members brought along to our last meeting a colour photocopy of a letter
from Samoa to the Uniting Church in Orange showing a $2 World Toilet Day stamp
World Toilet Day is a big United Nations event Much of the Third World is ravaged
by disease because of the inadequate provision of proper toilets Around 3000
children die every day because of poor sanitation
On 26 November 2014 Samoa issued a stamp to demonstrate the importance hygiene
and sanitation in Samoa It was launched by the Deputy Prime Minister Fonote Laufo
who also opened two Garden Toilets He acknowledged the help of the European
Union and the World Bank in providing better sanitation in Samoa
- Page - 17 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The Republic of San Marino has also produced World Toilet Day stamps-
The 2015 issue has an appropriate postmark
It is not a subject that Australia Post has been big on
- Page - 18 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Correspondence list for Orange Coin amp Stamp Club meeting of 30 June2015
Item Date in Action
1
2 Letter from Orange
Councilrsquos
Community Info amp
Services Centre of
25 May re info for
Community
Information Guide
28 May 2015 Replied to on 28 May
updating the Clubrsquos
information for 2015-
2016
3 The Wagga Stamp
Club (Inc)
Newsletter for June
2015 9pp
29 May 2015
4 Bathurst Stamp
Coin Collectables amp
Lapidary Club
Newsletter for May amp
June 2015
By e-mail on 31 May
2015
5 Queensland
Numismatic Society
Inc Monthly
Magazine for May
2015
4 June 2015
6 PHILAS News for
June 201 3 copies
4 June 2015 Copies to publicity officer
amp to president on 6 June
Contains a half-page
report on Expo
7 MR Robertsrsquo
NUMI$NEWS for
June 2015
4 June 2015
8 Letter from Orange
Council re Hire Fees
for Cultural Centre
dated 1 June 2015
5 June 2015 Discussed at Monthly Fair
on 6 June 2015 Draft
reply has been prepared
For discussion
9 Gladstone amp District
Philatelic Societyrsquos
The Gladstone Bag
for 10 June 2015
5 June 2015
10 Australian Philatelc
Traders lsquoAssociation
APTA 2015
Yearbook 1 copy
9 June 2015
- Page - 19 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
28pp
11 Leonard G Morel of
leonxnlizzycomau
Banknote list amp Coin
list for June 2015 2
copies of each
11 June 2015
12 Statement from
Prime Media Group
Pty Ltd dated 8 June
15 June 2015 For treasurer
13 Maitland amp District
Coin Clubrsquos
Newsletter for July
2015
22 June 2015
14 Bathurst C S C
amp Lap Clubrsquos
Bathex 2015
Exhibition and
Bathurst Centenary
Information e-
Newsletter Issue 10
May 2015
By e-mail on 23 June
2015
Some hard copies made amp
to go out as a pdf e-mail
attachment
15 Australian Stamps
Professional magazine for June-
July 2015
26 June 2015
16 Tamworth
Philatelic Society
Inc Newsletter for
July amp August 2015
29 June 2015
17 PHILAS Auction
Catalogue for
Auction 121 Saturday 11 July 2015
26 June 2015
- Page - 20 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
AAA Stamps tables at Expo 2015 in April Steve Burton is talking to Phil Morehouse
(on the left) and another customer
Tony Byrne at Expo 2015 in April setting up his tables
- Page - 10 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The First Caliphate
When the prophet Mohammed died in AD 630 his followers elected a new leader of the Moslems with the title of Caliph Arabic for successor combining the roles of civil and religious leader A century later the Caliphate had expanded from Arabia into an empire that stretched from Spain across North Africa through the Middle East as far as the border with modern India This vast empire had a short lifetime as a result of Islamic factional politics and consisted of little more than modern Iraq when obliterated by the Mongols in AD 1258
The Caliphate at about its greatest extent showing the location of some mints (Wikipedia) The early coinage of the Caliphate was copied from Roman (Byzantine) prototypes in gold and copper and Iranian types in silver Purely Islamic types took nearly 50 years to appear and were distinguished by purely epigraphic (non-figural) types Early issues of the Caliphate showed the mint and date but were otherwise anonymous The denominations struck by the Caliphs and most Islamic states were the gold dinar the silver dirhem and copper fals With the passing years as the Caliphate disintegrated into a multitude of warring Islamic states many with leaders calling themselves caliph it became necessary for the true Caliph to be identified on the coins as the responsible issuer
- Page - 11 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
EARLY ISLAMIC Gold Dinar (20mm 427 g) Dated AH 83 (703 AD)
LATER ISLAMIC Gold Dinar (24mm 598 g) Tustar min al-Ahwaz mint Extra inscription was necessary to identify the caliph Dated AH 325 (AD 9367)
Caliphate Early silver dirhem closely modelled on Iranian (Persian) types (32mm 407 g) Kirman mint Dated AH 67 (AD 6867)
Political instability was as much a feature of the first caliphate as of the current one The caliph al-Muntasir (AD 861-862)
murdered his predecessor and was himself murdered after a reign of six months Silver dirhem (19mm 288 g) Surra man rarsquoa (Samarra) mint Dated AH 248 (AD 862)
Later Caliphate Silver Dirhem (23mm 297 g) of non-pictorial type Er-Rafiqat (Rakka) mint Dated AH 290 (AD 9023
- Page - 12 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The early copper coinage of the Caliphate was modelled very closely on Roman (Byzantine) types This fals has replaced the emperorrsquos name with that of the mint Damascus written in Greek characters Otherwise it is a close copy of a Roman follis even retaining crosses in the design Circa 680s AElig Fals (20mm 415 g) Damascus mint
Copper fals (185mm 307 g) Halab (Aleppo) mint Struck circa 690s The cross soon disappeared from the fals and the image of the emperor was replaced by that of the caliph The inscriptions were now entirely in Arabic
Pictorial designs disappeared altogether within a few years because of Islamic disapproval of images which might be deemed idolatry This fals (17mm 496 g) struck in Seville Spain in AH 108 (AD 7267) is typical of subsequent copper coinage
with inscriptions only
Images courtesy of CNG
Lawrence Sherwin
A 1938 AIR MAIL FROM NEW ZEALAND TO SAN
FRANCISCO via AMERCAN SAMOA AND HAWAII
Kingsford-Smith was the first person to fly across the Pacific in the Southern Cross in 1938
Ten years later Pan American Airways had an ambitious plan to commence an air mail service from San
Francisco to New Zealand Juan Trippe and his investors wanted originally to fly the lucrative and
prestigious air mail and passenger route across the Atlantic Ocean but they could not get permission In
1934 they had acquired two Martin M130 and three Sikorsky S-42 clippers ndash 42 million worth of aircraft
They needed an ocean to cross ndash so they chose the Pacific
- Page - 13 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Their first successful route was from San Francisco to Manila in the American territory of the Philippines
Captain Edwin Musick set off on the first survey flight on 17 April 1935 He replaced the passenger cabin
with auxiliary fuel tanks In June the S-42 flew from Hawaii to Midway In August it flew to Wake Island
and by October it flew across the Pacific to Guam
Pan Amrsquos first route across the Pacific with connections to Macau Hong Kong Canton Shanghai amp Beijing
The first regular mail amp passenger carrying Pan Am clipper flight arrived in manila on 29 November 1935
under the command of Captain Ed Musick The passenger fare was US$95
After that Martin M130 clippers left San Francisco every Wednesday for Manila Later it connected with
another Pan American flying boat service to Hong Kong and Macau ndash until the disappearance of the Hawaii
Clipper in 1938 when Pan Am was left with only two Martin clippers The service to Manila had to be
reduced to three times a month
Captain Musick arriving in Honolulu in a Sikorsky S-42 Clipper after the first Pacific survey flight April
1935
With delays in setting up an Atlantic service Pan Am began surveying new routes to New Zealand
- Page - 14 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
In March 1937 Captain Ed Musick took to survey a route using a landing on Kingman Reef and at Pago
Pago in American Samoa These were the only spots were America had any sovereignty This route was
dangerous and probably ill-advised The British amp French-governed colonies did not give approval to Pan
Am set up flying boat bases
The first official airmail was flown between Auckland and San Francisco on 2 January 1938 The plane the
Samoan Clipper was a Sikorsky S-42B flying boat The pilot again was Ed Musick The plane had
landed in Auckland on 26 December after a journey from San Francisco but no air mail had been carried
from the United States
The plane left Auckland on 2 January with a hold full of mail (but no passengers) and arrived at Pago Pago
in American Samoa on 1 January (because of the International Date Line) It arrived in Hawaii on 3 January
and the mail was transferred to a Martin flying boat operating on the regular Pan Am Manila to San
Francisco Route The mail arrived in San Francisco on 6 January The rate to both the US and the UK was
46d
lsquoSamoa Clipperrsquo in Auckland Harbour very-late-December 1937 The Centaurus is behind
Earlier in 1937 the Centaurus had inaugurated the England to Australia air route for Imperial
Airways
- Page - 15 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Captain Ed Musick and his entire crew were tragically killed a fortnight later on 11 January 1938 on the
return flight to New Zealand The SB42B flying boat developed an oil leak after taking off form Pago Pago
The aircraft jettisoned fuel in an attempt to lighten the aircraft as they attempted to return to Pago Pago The
fuel ignited as vapours built up in the wing structure and the plane exploded in flame The service was
terminated and not restored until it 1940 Then the US Army Air Service needed to provide a service across
the Pacific because German invasions in Europe had cut off the direct route from Australia amp New Zealand
to the USA and the United Kingdom
Two covers flown on the first Auckland to San Francisco air mail service (The back of one and the
front of another)
- Page - 16 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
WORLD TOILET DAY STAMPS
One of our members brought along to our last meeting a colour photocopy of a letter
from Samoa to the Uniting Church in Orange showing a $2 World Toilet Day stamp
World Toilet Day is a big United Nations event Much of the Third World is ravaged
by disease because of the inadequate provision of proper toilets Around 3000
children die every day because of poor sanitation
On 26 November 2014 Samoa issued a stamp to demonstrate the importance hygiene
and sanitation in Samoa It was launched by the Deputy Prime Minister Fonote Laufo
who also opened two Garden Toilets He acknowledged the help of the European
Union and the World Bank in providing better sanitation in Samoa
- Page - 17 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The Republic of San Marino has also produced World Toilet Day stamps-
The 2015 issue has an appropriate postmark
It is not a subject that Australia Post has been big on
- Page - 18 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Correspondence list for Orange Coin amp Stamp Club meeting of 30 June2015
Item Date in Action
1
2 Letter from Orange
Councilrsquos
Community Info amp
Services Centre of
25 May re info for
Community
Information Guide
28 May 2015 Replied to on 28 May
updating the Clubrsquos
information for 2015-
2016
3 The Wagga Stamp
Club (Inc)
Newsletter for June
2015 9pp
29 May 2015
4 Bathurst Stamp
Coin Collectables amp
Lapidary Club
Newsletter for May amp
June 2015
By e-mail on 31 May
2015
5 Queensland
Numismatic Society
Inc Monthly
Magazine for May
2015
4 June 2015
6 PHILAS News for
June 201 3 copies
4 June 2015 Copies to publicity officer
amp to president on 6 June
Contains a half-page
report on Expo
7 MR Robertsrsquo
NUMI$NEWS for
June 2015
4 June 2015
8 Letter from Orange
Council re Hire Fees
for Cultural Centre
dated 1 June 2015
5 June 2015 Discussed at Monthly Fair
on 6 June 2015 Draft
reply has been prepared
For discussion
9 Gladstone amp District
Philatelic Societyrsquos
The Gladstone Bag
for 10 June 2015
5 June 2015
10 Australian Philatelc
Traders lsquoAssociation
APTA 2015
Yearbook 1 copy
9 June 2015
- Page - 19 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
28pp
11 Leonard G Morel of
leonxnlizzycomau
Banknote list amp Coin
list for June 2015 2
copies of each
11 June 2015
12 Statement from
Prime Media Group
Pty Ltd dated 8 June
15 June 2015 For treasurer
13 Maitland amp District
Coin Clubrsquos
Newsletter for July
2015
22 June 2015
14 Bathurst C S C
amp Lap Clubrsquos
Bathex 2015
Exhibition and
Bathurst Centenary
Information e-
Newsletter Issue 10
May 2015
By e-mail on 23 June
2015
Some hard copies made amp
to go out as a pdf e-mail
attachment
15 Australian Stamps
Professional magazine for June-
July 2015
26 June 2015
16 Tamworth
Philatelic Society
Inc Newsletter for
July amp August 2015
29 June 2015
17 PHILAS Auction
Catalogue for
Auction 121 Saturday 11 July 2015
26 June 2015
- Page - 20 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
AAA Stamps tables at Expo 2015 in April Steve Burton is talking to Phil Morehouse
(on the left) and another customer
Tony Byrne at Expo 2015 in April setting up his tables
- Page - 11 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
EARLY ISLAMIC Gold Dinar (20mm 427 g) Dated AH 83 (703 AD)
LATER ISLAMIC Gold Dinar (24mm 598 g) Tustar min al-Ahwaz mint Extra inscription was necessary to identify the caliph Dated AH 325 (AD 9367)
Caliphate Early silver dirhem closely modelled on Iranian (Persian) types (32mm 407 g) Kirman mint Dated AH 67 (AD 6867)
Political instability was as much a feature of the first caliphate as of the current one The caliph al-Muntasir (AD 861-862)
murdered his predecessor and was himself murdered after a reign of six months Silver dirhem (19mm 288 g) Surra man rarsquoa (Samarra) mint Dated AH 248 (AD 862)
Later Caliphate Silver Dirhem (23mm 297 g) of non-pictorial type Er-Rafiqat (Rakka) mint Dated AH 290 (AD 9023
- Page - 12 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The early copper coinage of the Caliphate was modelled very closely on Roman (Byzantine) types This fals has replaced the emperorrsquos name with that of the mint Damascus written in Greek characters Otherwise it is a close copy of a Roman follis even retaining crosses in the design Circa 680s AElig Fals (20mm 415 g) Damascus mint
Copper fals (185mm 307 g) Halab (Aleppo) mint Struck circa 690s The cross soon disappeared from the fals and the image of the emperor was replaced by that of the caliph The inscriptions were now entirely in Arabic
Pictorial designs disappeared altogether within a few years because of Islamic disapproval of images which might be deemed idolatry This fals (17mm 496 g) struck in Seville Spain in AH 108 (AD 7267) is typical of subsequent copper coinage
with inscriptions only
Images courtesy of CNG
Lawrence Sherwin
A 1938 AIR MAIL FROM NEW ZEALAND TO SAN
FRANCISCO via AMERCAN SAMOA AND HAWAII
Kingsford-Smith was the first person to fly across the Pacific in the Southern Cross in 1938
Ten years later Pan American Airways had an ambitious plan to commence an air mail service from San
Francisco to New Zealand Juan Trippe and his investors wanted originally to fly the lucrative and
prestigious air mail and passenger route across the Atlantic Ocean but they could not get permission In
1934 they had acquired two Martin M130 and three Sikorsky S-42 clippers ndash 42 million worth of aircraft
They needed an ocean to cross ndash so they chose the Pacific
- Page - 13 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Their first successful route was from San Francisco to Manila in the American territory of the Philippines
Captain Edwin Musick set off on the first survey flight on 17 April 1935 He replaced the passenger cabin
with auxiliary fuel tanks In June the S-42 flew from Hawaii to Midway In August it flew to Wake Island
and by October it flew across the Pacific to Guam
Pan Amrsquos first route across the Pacific with connections to Macau Hong Kong Canton Shanghai amp Beijing
The first regular mail amp passenger carrying Pan Am clipper flight arrived in manila on 29 November 1935
under the command of Captain Ed Musick The passenger fare was US$95
After that Martin M130 clippers left San Francisco every Wednesday for Manila Later it connected with
another Pan American flying boat service to Hong Kong and Macau ndash until the disappearance of the Hawaii
Clipper in 1938 when Pan Am was left with only two Martin clippers The service to Manila had to be
reduced to three times a month
Captain Musick arriving in Honolulu in a Sikorsky S-42 Clipper after the first Pacific survey flight April
1935
With delays in setting up an Atlantic service Pan Am began surveying new routes to New Zealand
- Page - 14 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
In March 1937 Captain Ed Musick took to survey a route using a landing on Kingman Reef and at Pago
Pago in American Samoa These were the only spots were America had any sovereignty This route was
dangerous and probably ill-advised The British amp French-governed colonies did not give approval to Pan
Am set up flying boat bases
The first official airmail was flown between Auckland and San Francisco on 2 January 1938 The plane the
Samoan Clipper was a Sikorsky S-42B flying boat The pilot again was Ed Musick The plane had
landed in Auckland on 26 December after a journey from San Francisco but no air mail had been carried
from the United States
The plane left Auckland on 2 January with a hold full of mail (but no passengers) and arrived at Pago Pago
in American Samoa on 1 January (because of the International Date Line) It arrived in Hawaii on 3 January
and the mail was transferred to a Martin flying boat operating on the regular Pan Am Manila to San
Francisco Route The mail arrived in San Francisco on 6 January The rate to both the US and the UK was
46d
lsquoSamoa Clipperrsquo in Auckland Harbour very-late-December 1937 The Centaurus is behind
Earlier in 1937 the Centaurus had inaugurated the England to Australia air route for Imperial
Airways
- Page - 15 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Captain Ed Musick and his entire crew were tragically killed a fortnight later on 11 January 1938 on the
return flight to New Zealand The SB42B flying boat developed an oil leak after taking off form Pago Pago
The aircraft jettisoned fuel in an attempt to lighten the aircraft as they attempted to return to Pago Pago The
fuel ignited as vapours built up in the wing structure and the plane exploded in flame The service was
terminated and not restored until it 1940 Then the US Army Air Service needed to provide a service across
the Pacific because German invasions in Europe had cut off the direct route from Australia amp New Zealand
to the USA and the United Kingdom
Two covers flown on the first Auckland to San Francisco air mail service (The back of one and the
front of another)
- Page - 16 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
WORLD TOILET DAY STAMPS
One of our members brought along to our last meeting a colour photocopy of a letter
from Samoa to the Uniting Church in Orange showing a $2 World Toilet Day stamp
World Toilet Day is a big United Nations event Much of the Third World is ravaged
by disease because of the inadequate provision of proper toilets Around 3000
children die every day because of poor sanitation
On 26 November 2014 Samoa issued a stamp to demonstrate the importance hygiene
and sanitation in Samoa It was launched by the Deputy Prime Minister Fonote Laufo
who also opened two Garden Toilets He acknowledged the help of the European
Union and the World Bank in providing better sanitation in Samoa
- Page - 17 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The Republic of San Marino has also produced World Toilet Day stamps-
The 2015 issue has an appropriate postmark
It is not a subject that Australia Post has been big on
- Page - 18 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Correspondence list for Orange Coin amp Stamp Club meeting of 30 June2015
Item Date in Action
1
2 Letter from Orange
Councilrsquos
Community Info amp
Services Centre of
25 May re info for
Community
Information Guide
28 May 2015 Replied to on 28 May
updating the Clubrsquos
information for 2015-
2016
3 The Wagga Stamp
Club (Inc)
Newsletter for June
2015 9pp
29 May 2015
4 Bathurst Stamp
Coin Collectables amp
Lapidary Club
Newsletter for May amp
June 2015
By e-mail on 31 May
2015
5 Queensland
Numismatic Society
Inc Monthly
Magazine for May
2015
4 June 2015
6 PHILAS News for
June 201 3 copies
4 June 2015 Copies to publicity officer
amp to president on 6 June
Contains a half-page
report on Expo
7 MR Robertsrsquo
NUMI$NEWS for
June 2015
4 June 2015
8 Letter from Orange
Council re Hire Fees
for Cultural Centre
dated 1 June 2015
5 June 2015 Discussed at Monthly Fair
on 6 June 2015 Draft
reply has been prepared
For discussion
9 Gladstone amp District
Philatelic Societyrsquos
The Gladstone Bag
for 10 June 2015
5 June 2015
10 Australian Philatelc
Traders lsquoAssociation
APTA 2015
Yearbook 1 copy
9 June 2015
- Page - 19 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
28pp
11 Leonard G Morel of
leonxnlizzycomau
Banknote list amp Coin
list for June 2015 2
copies of each
11 June 2015
12 Statement from
Prime Media Group
Pty Ltd dated 8 June
15 June 2015 For treasurer
13 Maitland amp District
Coin Clubrsquos
Newsletter for July
2015
22 June 2015
14 Bathurst C S C
amp Lap Clubrsquos
Bathex 2015
Exhibition and
Bathurst Centenary
Information e-
Newsletter Issue 10
May 2015
By e-mail on 23 June
2015
Some hard copies made amp
to go out as a pdf e-mail
attachment
15 Australian Stamps
Professional magazine for June-
July 2015
26 June 2015
16 Tamworth
Philatelic Society
Inc Newsletter for
July amp August 2015
29 June 2015
17 PHILAS Auction
Catalogue for
Auction 121 Saturday 11 July 2015
26 June 2015
- Page - 20 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
AAA Stamps tables at Expo 2015 in April Steve Burton is talking to Phil Morehouse
(on the left) and another customer
Tony Byrne at Expo 2015 in April setting up his tables
- Page - 12 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The early copper coinage of the Caliphate was modelled very closely on Roman (Byzantine) types This fals has replaced the emperorrsquos name with that of the mint Damascus written in Greek characters Otherwise it is a close copy of a Roman follis even retaining crosses in the design Circa 680s AElig Fals (20mm 415 g) Damascus mint
Copper fals (185mm 307 g) Halab (Aleppo) mint Struck circa 690s The cross soon disappeared from the fals and the image of the emperor was replaced by that of the caliph The inscriptions were now entirely in Arabic
Pictorial designs disappeared altogether within a few years because of Islamic disapproval of images which might be deemed idolatry This fals (17mm 496 g) struck in Seville Spain in AH 108 (AD 7267) is typical of subsequent copper coinage
with inscriptions only
Images courtesy of CNG
Lawrence Sherwin
A 1938 AIR MAIL FROM NEW ZEALAND TO SAN
FRANCISCO via AMERCAN SAMOA AND HAWAII
Kingsford-Smith was the first person to fly across the Pacific in the Southern Cross in 1938
Ten years later Pan American Airways had an ambitious plan to commence an air mail service from San
Francisco to New Zealand Juan Trippe and his investors wanted originally to fly the lucrative and
prestigious air mail and passenger route across the Atlantic Ocean but they could not get permission In
1934 they had acquired two Martin M130 and three Sikorsky S-42 clippers ndash 42 million worth of aircraft
They needed an ocean to cross ndash so they chose the Pacific
- Page - 13 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Their first successful route was from San Francisco to Manila in the American territory of the Philippines
Captain Edwin Musick set off on the first survey flight on 17 April 1935 He replaced the passenger cabin
with auxiliary fuel tanks In June the S-42 flew from Hawaii to Midway In August it flew to Wake Island
and by October it flew across the Pacific to Guam
Pan Amrsquos first route across the Pacific with connections to Macau Hong Kong Canton Shanghai amp Beijing
The first regular mail amp passenger carrying Pan Am clipper flight arrived in manila on 29 November 1935
under the command of Captain Ed Musick The passenger fare was US$95
After that Martin M130 clippers left San Francisco every Wednesday for Manila Later it connected with
another Pan American flying boat service to Hong Kong and Macau ndash until the disappearance of the Hawaii
Clipper in 1938 when Pan Am was left with only two Martin clippers The service to Manila had to be
reduced to three times a month
Captain Musick arriving in Honolulu in a Sikorsky S-42 Clipper after the first Pacific survey flight April
1935
With delays in setting up an Atlantic service Pan Am began surveying new routes to New Zealand
- Page - 14 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
In March 1937 Captain Ed Musick took to survey a route using a landing on Kingman Reef and at Pago
Pago in American Samoa These were the only spots were America had any sovereignty This route was
dangerous and probably ill-advised The British amp French-governed colonies did not give approval to Pan
Am set up flying boat bases
The first official airmail was flown between Auckland and San Francisco on 2 January 1938 The plane the
Samoan Clipper was a Sikorsky S-42B flying boat The pilot again was Ed Musick The plane had
landed in Auckland on 26 December after a journey from San Francisco but no air mail had been carried
from the United States
The plane left Auckland on 2 January with a hold full of mail (but no passengers) and arrived at Pago Pago
in American Samoa on 1 January (because of the International Date Line) It arrived in Hawaii on 3 January
and the mail was transferred to a Martin flying boat operating on the regular Pan Am Manila to San
Francisco Route The mail arrived in San Francisco on 6 January The rate to both the US and the UK was
46d
lsquoSamoa Clipperrsquo in Auckland Harbour very-late-December 1937 The Centaurus is behind
Earlier in 1937 the Centaurus had inaugurated the England to Australia air route for Imperial
Airways
- Page - 15 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Captain Ed Musick and his entire crew were tragically killed a fortnight later on 11 January 1938 on the
return flight to New Zealand The SB42B flying boat developed an oil leak after taking off form Pago Pago
The aircraft jettisoned fuel in an attempt to lighten the aircraft as they attempted to return to Pago Pago The
fuel ignited as vapours built up in the wing structure and the plane exploded in flame The service was
terminated and not restored until it 1940 Then the US Army Air Service needed to provide a service across
the Pacific because German invasions in Europe had cut off the direct route from Australia amp New Zealand
to the USA and the United Kingdom
Two covers flown on the first Auckland to San Francisco air mail service (The back of one and the
front of another)
- Page - 16 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
WORLD TOILET DAY STAMPS
One of our members brought along to our last meeting a colour photocopy of a letter
from Samoa to the Uniting Church in Orange showing a $2 World Toilet Day stamp
World Toilet Day is a big United Nations event Much of the Third World is ravaged
by disease because of the inadequate provision of proper toilets Around 3000
children die every day because of poor sanitation
On 26 November 2014 Samoa issued a stamp to demonstrate the importance hygiene
and sanitation in Samoa It was launched by the Deputy Prime Minister Fonote Laufo
who also opened two Garden Toilets He acknowledged the help of the European
Union and the World Bank in providing better sanitation in Samoa
- Page - 17 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The Republic of San Marino has also produced World Toilet Day stamps-
The 2015 issue has an appropriate postmark
It is not a subject that Australia Post has been big on
- Page - 18 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Correspondence list for Orange Coin amp Stamp Club meeting of 30 June2015
Item Date in Action
1
2 Letter from Orange
Councilrsquos
Community Info amp
Services Centre of
25 May re info for
Community
Information Guide
28 May 2015 Replied to on 28 May
updating the Clubrsquos
information for 2015-
2016
3 The Wagga Stamp
Club (Inc)
Newsletter for June
2015 9pp
29 May 2015
4 Bathurst Stamp
Coin Collectables amp
Lapidary Club
Newsletter for May amp
June 2015
By e-mail on 31 May
2015
5 Queensland
Numismatic Society
Inc Monthly
Magazine for May
2015
4 June 2015
6 PHILAS News for
June 201 3 copies
4 June 2015 Copies to publicity officer
amp to president on 6 June
Contains a half-page
report on Expo
7 MR Robertsrsquo
NUMI$NEWS for
June 2015
4 June 2015
8 Letter from Orange
Council re Hire Fees
for Cultural Centre
dated 1 June 2015
5 June 2015 Discussed at Monthly Fair
on 6 June 2015 Draft
reply has been prepared
For discussion
9 Gladstone amp District
Philatelic Societyrsquos
The Gladstone Bag
for 10 June 2015
5 June 2015
10 Australian Philatelc
Traders lsquoAssociation
APTA 2015
Yearbook 1 copy
9 June 2015
- Page - 19 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
28pp
11 Leonard G Morel of
leonxnlizzycomau
Banknote list amp Coin
list for June 2015 2
copies of each
11 June 2015
12 Statement from
Prime Media Group
Pty Ltd dated 8 June
15 June 2015 For treasurer
13 Maitland amp District
Coin Clubrsquos
Newsletter for July
2015
22 June 2015
14 Bathurst C S C
amp Lap Clubrsquos
Bathex 2015
Exhibition and
Bathurst Centenary
Information e-
Newsletter Issue 10
May 2015
By e-mail on 23 June
2015
Some hard copies made amp
to go out as a pdf e-mail
attachment
15 Australian Stamps
Professional magazine for June-
July 2015
26 June 2015
16 Tamworth
Philatelic Society
Inc Newsletter for
July amp August 2015
29 June 2015
17 PHILAS Auction
Catalogue for
Auction 121 Saturday 11 July 2015
26 June 2015
- Page - 20 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
AAA Stamps tables at Expo 2015 in April Steve Burton is talking to Phil Morehouse
(on the left) and another customer
Tony Byrne at Expo 2015 in April setting up his tables
- Page - 13 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Their first successful route was from San Francisco to Manila in the American territory of the Philippines
Captain Edwin Musick set off on the first survey flight on 17 April 1935 He replaced the passenger cabin
with auxiliary fuel tanks In June the S-42 flew from Hawaii to Midway In August it flew to Wake Island
and by October it flew across the Pacific to Guam
Pan Amrsquos first route across the Pacific with connections to Macau Hong Kong Canton Shanghai amp Beijing
The first regular mail amp passenger carrying Pan Am clipper flight arrived in manila on 29 November 1935
under the command of Captain Ed Musick The passenger fare was US$95
After that Martin M130 clippers left San Francisco every Wednesday for Manila Later it connected with
another Pan American flying boat service to Hong Kong and Macau ndash until the disappearance of the Hawaii
Clipper in 1938 when Pan Am was left with only two Martin clippers The service to Manila had to be
reduced to three times a month
Captain Musick arriving in Honolulu in a Sikorsky S-42 Clipper after the first Pacific survey flight April
1935
With delays in setting up an Atlantic service Pan Am began surveying new routes to New Zealand
- Page - 14 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
In March 1937 Captain Ed Musick took to survey a route using a landing on Kingman Reef and at Pago
Pago in American Samoa These were the only spots were America had any sovereignty This route was
dangerous and probably ill-advised The British amp French-governed colonies did not give approval to Pan
Am set up flying boat bases
The first official airmail was flown between Auckland and San Francisco on 2 January 1938 The plane the
Samoan Clipper was a Sikorsky S-42B flying boat The pilot again was Ed Musick The plane had
landed in Auckland on 26 December after a journey from San Francisco but no air mail had been carried
from the United States
The plane left Auckland on 2 January with a hold full of mail (but no passengers) and arrived at Pago Pago
in American Samoa on 1 January (because of the International Date Line) It arrived in Hawaii on 3 January
and the mail was transferred to a Martin flying boat operating on the regular Pan Am Manila to San
Francisco Route The mail arrived in San Francisco on 6 January The rate to both the US and the UK was
46d
lsquoSamoa Clipperrsquo in Auckland Harbour very-late-December 1937 The Centaurus is behind
Earlier in 1937 the Centaurus had inaugurated the England to Australia air route for Imperial
Airways
- Page - 15 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Captain Ed Musick and his entire crew were tragically killed a fortnight later on 11 January 1938 on the
return flight to New Zealand The SB42B flying boat developed an oil leak after taking off form Pago Pago
The aircraft jettisoned fuel in an attempt to lighten the aircraft as they attempted to return to Pago Pago The
fuel ignited as vapours built up in the wing structure and the plane exploded in flame The service was
terminated and not restored until it 1940 Then the US Army Air Service needed to provide a service across
the Pacific because German invasions in Europe had cut off the direct route from Australia amp New Zealand
to the USA and the United Kingdom
Two covers flown on the first Auckland to San Francisco air mail service (The back of one and the
front of another)
- Page - 16 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
WORLD TOILET DAY STAMPS
One of our members brought along to our last meeting a colour photocopy of a letter
from Samoa to the Uniting Church in Orange showing a $2 World Toilet Day stamp
World Toilet Day is a big United Nations event Much of the Third World is ravaged
by disease because of the inadequate provision of proper toilets Around 3000
children die every day because of poor sanitation
On 26 November 2014 Samoa issued a stamp to demonstrate the importance hygiene
and sanitation in Samoa It was launched by the Deputy Prime Minister Fonote Laufo
who also opened two Garden Toilets He acknowledged the help of the European
Union and the World Bank in providing better sanitation in Samoa
- Page - 17 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The Republic of San Marino has also produced World Toilet Day stamps-
The 2015 issue has an appropriate postmark
It is not a subject that Australia Post has been big on
- Page - 18 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Correspondence list for Orange Coin amp Stamp Club meeting of 30 June2015
Item Date in Action
1
2 Letter from Orange
Councilrsquos
Community Info amp
Services Centre of
25 May re info for
Community
Information Guide
28 May 2015 Replied to on 28 May
updating the Clubrsquos
information for 2015-
2016
3 The Wagga Stamp
Club (Inc)
Newsletter for June
2015 9pp
29 May 2015
4 Bathurst Stamp
Coin Collectables amp
Lapidary Club
Newsletter for May amp
June 2015
By e-mail on 31 May
2015
5 Queensland
Numismatic Society
Inc Monthly
Magazine for May
2015
4 June 2015
6 PHILAS News for
June 201 3 copies
4 June 2015 Copies to publicity officer
amp to president on 6 June
Contains a half-page
report on Expo
7 MR Robertsrsquo
NUMI$NEWS for
June 2015
4 June 2015
8 Letter from Orange
Council re Hire Fees
for Cultural Centre
dated 1 June 2015
5 June 2015 Discussed at Monthly Fair
on 6 June 2015 Draft
reply has been prepared
For discussion
9 Gladstone amp District
Philatelic Societyrsquos
The Gladstone Bag
for 10 June 2015
5 June 2015
10 Australian Philatelc
Traders lsquoAssociation
APTA 2015
Yearbook 1 copy
9 June 2015
- Page - 19 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
28pp
11 Leonard G Morel of
leonxnlizzycomau
Banknote list amp Coin
list for June 2015 2
copies of each
11 June 2015
12 Statement from
Prime Media Group
Pty Ltd dated 8 June
15 June 2015 For treasurer
13 Maitland amp District
Coin Clubrsquos
Newsletter for July
2015
22 June 2015
14 Bathurst C S C
amp Lap Clubrsquos
Bathex 2015
Exhibition and
Bathurst Centenary
Information e-
Newsletter Issue 10
May 2015
By e-mail on 23 June
2015
Some hard copies made amp
to go out as a pdf e-mail
attachment
15 Australian Stamps
Professional magazine for June-
July 2015
26 June 2015
16 Tamworth
Philatelic Society
Inc Newsletter for
July amp August 2015
29 June 2015
17 PHILAS Auction
Catalogue for
Auction 121 Saturday 11 July 2015
26 June 2015
- Page - 20 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
AAA Stamps tables at Expo 2015 in April Steve Burton is talking to Phil Morehouse
(on the left) and another customer
Tony Byrne at Expo 2015 in April setting up his tables
- Page - 14 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
In March 1937 Captain Ed Musick took to survey a route using a landing on Kingman Reef and at Pago
Pago in American Samoa These were the only spots were America had any sovereignty This route was
dangerous and probably ill-advised The British amp French-governed colonies did not give approval to Pan
Am set up flying boat bases
The first official airmail was flown between Auckland and San Francisco on 2 January 1938 The plane the
Samoan Clipper was a Sikorsky S-42B flying boat The pilot again was Ed Musick The plane had
landed in Auckland on 26 December after a journey from San Francisco but no air mail had been carried
from the United States
The plane left Auckland on 2 January with a hold full of mail (but no passengers) and arrived at Pago Pago
in American Samoa on 1 January (because of the International Date Line) It arrived in Hawaii on 3 January
and the mail was transferred to a Martin flying boat operating on the regular Pan Am Manila to San
Francisco Route The mail arrived in San Francisco on 6 January The rate to both the US and the UK was
46d
lsquoSamoa Clipperrsquo in Auckland Harbour very-late-December 1937 The Centaurus is behind
Earlier in 1937 the Centaurus had inaugurated the England to Australia air route for Imperial
Airways
- Page - 15 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Captain Ed Musick and his entire crew were tragically killed a fortnight later on 11 January 1938 on the
return flight to New Zealand The SB42B flying boat developed an oil leak after taking off form Pago Pago
The aircraft jettisoned fuel in an attempt to lighten the aircraft as they attempted to return to Pago Pago The
fuel ignited as vapours built up in the wing structure and the plane exploded in flame The service was
terminated and not restored until it 1940 Then the US Army Air Service needed to provide a service across
the Pacific because German invasions in Europe had cut off the direct route from Australia amp New Zealand
to the USA and the United Kingdom
Two covers flown on the first Auckland to San Francisco air mail service (The back of one and the
front of another)
- Page - 16 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
WORLD TOILET DAY STAMPS
One of our members brought along to our last meeting a colour photocopy of a letter
from Samoa to the Uniting Church in Orange showing a $2 World Toilet Day stamp
World Toilet Day is a big United Nations event Much of the Third World is ravaged
by disease because of the inadequate provision of proper toilets Around 3000
children die every day because of poor sanitation
On 26 November 2014 Samoa issued a stamp to demonstrate the importance hygiene
and sanitation in Samoa It was launched by the Deputy Prime Minister Fonote Laufo
who also opened two Garden Toilets He acknowledged the help of the European
Union and the World Bank in providing better sanitation in Samoa
- Page - 17 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The Republic of San Marino has also produced World Toilet Day stamps-
The 2015 issue has an appropriate postmark
It is not a subject that Australia Post has been big on
- Page - 18 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Correspondence list for Orange Coin amp Stamp Club meeting of 30 June2015
Item Date in Action
1
2 Letter from Orange
Councilrsquos
Community Info amp
Services Centre of
25 May re info for
Community
Information Guide
28 May 2015 Replied to on 28 May
updating the Clubrsquos
information for 2015-
2016
3 The Wagga Stamp
Club (Inc)
Newsletter for June
2015 9pp
29 May 2015
4 Bathurst Stamp
Coin Collectables amp
Lapidary Club
Newsletter for May amp
June 2015
By e-mail on 31 May
2015
5 Queensland
Numismatic Society
Inc Monthly
Magazine for May
2015
4 June 2015
6 PHILAS News for
June 201 3 copies
4 June 2015 Copies to publicity officer
amp to president on 6 June
Contains a half-page
report on Expo
7 MR Robertsrsquo
NUMI$NEWS for
June 2015
4 June 2015
8 Letter from Orange
Council re Hire Fees
for Cultural Centre
dated 1 June 2015
5 June 2015 Discussed at Monthly Fair
on 6 June 2015 Draft
reply has been prepared
For discussion
9 Gladstone amp District
Philatelic Societyrsquos
The Gladstone Bag
for 10 June 2015
5 June 2015
10 Australian Philatelc
Traders lsquoAssociation
APTA 2015
Yearbook 1 copy
9 June 2015
- Page - 19 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
28pp
11 Leonard G Morel of
leonxnlizzycomau
Banknote list amp Coin
list for June 2015 2
copies of each
11 June 2015
12 Statement from
Prime Media Group
Pty Ltd dated 8 June
15 June 2015 For treasurer
13 Maitland amp District
Coin Clubrsquos
Newsletter for July
2015
22 June 2015
14 Bathurst C S C
amp Lap Clubrsquos
Bathex 2015
Exhibition and
Bathurst Centenary
Information e-
Newsletter Issue 10
May 2015
By e-mail on 23 June
2015
Some hard copies made amp
to go out as a pdf e-mail
attachment
15 Australian Stamps
Professional magazine for June-
July 2015
26 June 2015
16 Tamworth
Philatelic Society
Inc Newsletter for
July amp August 2015
29 June 2015
17 PHILAS Auction
Catalogue for
Auction 121 Saturday 11 July 2015
26 June 2015
- Page - 20 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
AAA Stamps tables at Expo 2015 in April Steve Burton is talking to Phil Morehouse
(on the left) and another customer
Tony Byrne at Expo 2015 in April setting up his tables
- Page - 15 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Captain Ed Musick and his entire crew were tragically killed a fortnight later on 11 January 1938 on the
return flight to New Zealand The SB42B flying boat developed an oil leak after taking off form Pago Pago
The aircraft jettisoned fuel in an attempt to lighten the aircraft as they attempted to return to Pago Pago The
fuel ignited as vapours built up in the wing structure and the plane exploded in flame The service was
terminated and not restored until it 1940 Then the US Army Air Service needed to provide a service across
the Pacific because German invasions in Europe had cut off the direct route from Australia amp New Zealand
to the USA and the United Kingdom
Two covers flown on the first Auckland to San Francisco air mail service (The back of one and the
front of another)
- Page - 16 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
WORLD TOILET DAY STAMPS
One of our members brought along to our last meeting a colour photocopy of a letter
from Samoa to the Uniting Church in Orange showing a $2 World Toilet Day stamp
World Toilet Day is a big United Nations event Much of the Third World is ravaged
by disease because of the inadequate provision of proper toilets Around 3000
children die every day because of poor sanitation
On 26 November 2014 Samoa issued a stamp to demonstrate the importance hygiene
and sanitation in Samoa It was launched by the Deputy Prime Minister Fonote Laufo
who also opened two Garden Toilets He acknowledged the help of the European
Union and the World Bank in providing better sanitation in Samoa
- Page - 17 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The Republic of San Marino has also produced World Toilet Day stamps-
The 2015 issue has an appropriate postmark
It is not a subject that Australia Post has been big on
- Page - 18 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Correspondence list for Orange Coin amp Stamp Club meeting of 30 June2015
Item Date in Action
1
2 Letter from Orange
Councilrsquos
Community Info amp
Services Centre of
25 May re info for
Community
Information Guide
28 May 2015 Replied to on 28 May
updating the Clubrsquos
information for 2015-
2016
3 The Wagga Stamp
Club (Inc)
Newsletter for June
2015 9pp
29 May 2015
4 Bathurst Stamp
Coin Collectables amp
Lapidary Club
Newsletter for May amp
June 2015
By e-mail on 31 May
2015
5 Queensland
Numismatic Society
Inc Monthly
Magazine for May
2015
4 June 2015
6 PHILAS News for
June 201 3 copies
4 June 2015 Copies to publicity officer
amp to president on 6 June
Contains a half-page
report on Expo
7 MR Robertsrsquo
NUMI$NEWS for
June 2015
4 June 2015
8 Letter from Orange
Council re Hire Fees
for Cultural Centre
dated 1 June 2015
5 June 2015 Discussed at Monthly Fair
on 6 June 2015 Draft
reply has been prepared
For discussion
9 Gladstone amp District
Philatelic Societyrsquos
The Gladstone Bag
for 10 June 2015
5 June 2015
10 Australian Philatelc
Traders lsquoAssociation
APTA 2015
Yearbook 1 copy
9 June 2015
- Page - 19 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
28pp
11 Leonard G Morel of
leonxnlizzycomau
Banknote list amp Coin
list for June 2015 2
copies of each
11 June 2015
12 Statement from
Prime Media Group
Pty Ltd dated 8 June
15 June 2015 For treasurer
13 Maitland amp District
Coin Clubrsquos
Newsletter for July
2015
22 June 2015
14 Bathurst C S C
amp Lap Clubrsquos
Bathex 2015
Exhibition and
Bathurst Centenary
Information e-
Newsletter Issue 10
May 2015
By e-mail on 23 June
2015
Some hard copies made amp
to go out as a pdf e-mail
attachment
15 Australian Stamps
Professional magazine for June-
July 2015
26 June 2015
16 Tamworth
Philatelic Society
Inc Newsletter for
July amp August 2015
29 June 2015
17 PHILAS Auction
Catalogue for
Auction 121 Saturday 11 July 2015
26 June 2015
- Page - 20 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
AAA Stamps tables at Expo 2015 in April Steve Burton is talking to Phil Morehouse
(on the left) and another customer
Tony Byrne at Expo 2015 in April setting up his tables
- Page - 16 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
WORLD TOILET DAY STAMPS
One of our members brought along to our last meeting a colour photocopy of a letter
from Samoa to the Uniting Church in Orange showing a $2 World Toilet Day stamp
World Toilet Day is a big United Nations event Much of the Third World is ravaged
by disease because of the inadequate provision of proper toilets Around 3000
children die every day because of poor sanitation
On 26 November 2014 Samoa issued a stamp to demonstrate the importance hygiene
and sanitation in Samoa It was launched by the Deputy Prime Minister Fonote Laufo
who also opened two Garden Toilets He acknowledged the help of the European
Union and the World Bank in providing better sanitation in Samoa
- Page - 17 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The Republic of San Marino has also produced World Toilet Day stamps-
The 2015 issue has an appropriate postmark
It is not a subject that Australia Post has been big on
- Page - 18 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Correspondence list for Orange Coin amp Stamp Club meeting of 30 June2015
Item Date in Action
1
2 Letter from Orange
Councilrsquos
Community Info amp
Services Centre of
25 May re info for
Community
Information Guide
28 May 2015 Replied to on 28 May
updating the Clubrsquos
information for 2015-
2016
3 The Wagga Stamp
Club (Inc)
Newsletter for June
2015 9pp
29 May 2015
4 Bathurst Stamp
Coin Collectables amp
Lapidary Club
Newsletter for May amp
June 2015
By e-mail on 31 May
2015
5 Queensland
Numismatic Society
Inc Monthly
Magazine for May
2015
4 June 2015
6 PHILAS News for
June 201 3 copies
4 June 2015 Copies to publicity officer
amp to president on 6 June
Contains a half-page
report on Expo
7 MR Robertsrsquo
NUMI$NEWS for
June 2015
4 June 2015
8 Letter from Orange
Council re Hire Fees
for Cultural Centre
dated 1 June 2015
5 June 2015 Discussed at Monthly Fair
on 6 June 2015 Draft
reply has been prepared
For discussion
9 Gladstone amp District
Philatelic Societyrsquos
The Gladstone Bag
for 10 June 2015
5 June 2015
10 Australian Philatelc
Traders lsquoAssociation
APTA 2015
Yearbook 1 copy
9 June 2015
- Page - 19 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
28pp
11 Leonard G Morel of
leonxnlizzycomau
Banknote list amp Coin
list for June 2015 2
copies of each
11 June 2015
12 Statement from
Prime Media Group
Pty Ltd dated 8 June
15 June 2015 For treasurer
13 Maitland amp District
Coin Clubrsquos
Newsletter for July
2015
22 June 2015
14 Bathurst C S C
amp Lap Clubrsquos
Bathex 2015
Exhibition and
Bathurst Centenary
Information e-
Newsletter Issue 10
May 2015
By e-mail on 23 June
2015
Some hard copies made amp
to go out as a pdf e-mail
attachment
15 Australian Stamps
Professional magazine for June-
July 2015
26 June 2015
16 Tamworth
Philatelic Society
Inc Newsletter for
July amp August 2015
29 June 2015
17 PHILAS Auction
Catalogue for
Auction 121 Saturday 11 July 2015
26 June 2015
- Page - 20 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
AAA Stamps tables at Expo 2015 in April Steve Burton is talking to Phil Morehouse
(on the left) and another customer
Tony Byrne at Expo 2015 in April setting up his tables
- Page - 17 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
The Republic of San Marino has also produced World Toilet Day stamps-
The 2015 issue has an appropriate postmark
It is not a subject that Australia Post has been big on
- Page - 18 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Correspondence list for Orange Coin amp Stamp Club meeting of 30 June2015
Item Date in Action
1
2 Letter from Orange
Councilrsquos
Community Info amp
Services Centre of
25 May re info for
Community
Information Guide
28 May 2015 Replied to on 28 May
updating the Clubrsquos
information for 2015-
2016
3 The Wagga Stamp
Club (Inc)
Newsletter for June
2015 9pp
29 May 2015
4 Bathurst Stamp
Coin Collectables amp
Lapidary Club
Newsletter for May amp
June 2015
By e-mail on 31 May
2015
5 Queensland
Numismatic Society
Inc Monthly
Magazine for May
2015
4 June 2015
6 PHILAS News for
June 201 3 copies
4 June 2015 Copies to publicity officer
amp to president on 6 June
Contains a half-page
report on Expo
7 MR Robertsrsquo
NUMI$NEWS for
June 2015
4 June 2015
8 Letter from Orange
Council re Hire Fees
for Cultural Centre
dated 1 June 2015
5 June 2015 Discussed at Monthly Fair
on 6 June 2015 Draft
reply has been prepared
For discussion
9 Gladstone amp District
Philatelic Societyrsquos
The Gladstone Bag
for 10 June 2015
5 June 2015
10 Australian Philatelc
Traders lsquoAssociation
APTA 2015
Yearbook 1 copy
9 June 2015
- Page - 19 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
28pp
11 Leonard G Morel of
leonxnlizzycomau
Banknote list amp Coin
list for June 2015 2
copies of each
11 June 2015
12 Statement from
Prime Media Group
Pty Ltd dated 8 June
15 June 2015 For treasurer
13 Maitland amp District
Coin Clubrsquos
Newsletter for July
2015
22 June 2015
14 Bathurst C S C
amp Lap Clubrsquos
Bathex 2015
Exhibition and
Bathurst Centenary
Information e-
Newsletter Issue 10
May 2015
By e-mail on 23 June
2015
Some hard copies made amp
to go out as a pdf e-mail
attachment
15 Australian Stamps
Professional magazine for June-
July 2015
26 June 2015
16 Tamworth
Philatelic Society
Inc Newsletter for
July amp August 2015
29 June 2015
17 PHILAS Auction
Catalogue for
Auction 121 Saturday 11 July 2015
26 June 2015
- Page - 20 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
AAA Stamps tables at Expo 2015 in April Steve Burton is talking to Phil Morehouse
(on the left) and another customer
Tony Byrne at Expo 2015 in April setting up his tables
- Page - 18 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
Correspondence list for Orange Coin amp Stamp Club meeting of 30 June2015
Item Date in Action
1
2 Letter from Orange
Councilrsquos
Community Info amp
Services Centre of
25 May re info for
Community
Information Guide
28 May 2015 Replied to on 28 May
updating the Clubrsquos
information for 2015-
2016
3 The Wagga Stamp
Club (Inc)
Newsletter for June
2015 9pp
29 May 2015
4 Bathurst Stamp
Coin Collectables amp
Lapidary Club
Newsletter for May amp
June 2015
By e-mail on 31 May
2015
5 Queensland
Numismatic Society
Inc Monthly
Magazine for May
2015
4 June 2015
6 PHILAS News for
June 201 3 copies
4 June 2015 Copies to publicity officer
amp to president on 6 June
Contains a half-page
report on Expo
7 MR Robertsrsquo
NUMI$NEWS for
June 2015
4 June 2015
8 Letter from Orange
Council re Hire Fees
for Cultural Centre
dated 1 June 2015
5 June 2015 Discussed at Monthly Fair
on 6 June 2015 Draft
reply has been prepared
For discussion
9 Gladstone amp District
Philatelic Societyrsquos
The Gladstone Bag
for 10 June 2015
5 June 2015
10 Australian Philatelc
Traders lsquoAssociation
APTA 2015
Yearbook 1 copy
9 June 2015
- Page - 19 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
28pp
11 Leonard G Morel of
leonxnlizzycomau
Banknote list amp Coin
list for June 2015 2
copies of each
11 June 2015
12 Statement from
Prime Media Group
Pty Ltd dated 8 June
15 June 2015 For treasurer
13 Maitland amp District
Coin Clubrsquos
Newsletter for July
2015
22 June 2015
14 Bathurst C S C
amp Lap Clubrsquos
Bathex 2015
Exhibition and
Bathurst Centenary
Information e-
Newsletter Issue 10
May 2015
By e-mail on 23 June
2015
Some hard copies made amp
to go out as a pdf e-mail
attachment
15 Australian Stamps
Professional magazine for June-
July 2015
26 June 2015
16 Tamworth
Philatelic Society
Inc Newsletter for
July amp August 2015
29 June 2015
17 PHILAS Auction
Catalogue for
Auction 121 Saturday 11 July 2015
26 June 2015
- Page - 20 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
AAA Stamps tables at Expo 2015 in April Steve Burton is talking to Phil Morehouse
(on the left) and another customer
Tony Byrne at Expo 2015 in April setting up his tables
- Page - 19 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
28pp
11 Leonard G Morel of
leonxnlizzycomau
Banknote list amp Coin
list for June 2015 2
copies of each
11 June 2015
12 Statement from
Prime Media Group
Pty Ltd dated 8 June
15 June 2015 For treasurer
13 Maitland amp District
Coin Clubrsquos
Newsletter for July
2015
22 June 2015
14 Bathurst C S C
amp Lap Clubrsquos
Bathex 2015
Exhibition and
Bathurst Centenary
Information e-
Newsletter Issue 10
May 2015
By e-mail on 23 June
2015
Some hard copies made amp
to go out as a pdf e-mail
attachment
15 Australian Stamps
Professional magazine for June-
July 2015
26 June 2015
16 Tamworth
Philatelic Society
Inc Newsletter for
July amp August 2015
29 June 2015
17 PHILAS Auction
Catalogue for
Auction 121 Saturday 11 July 2015
26 June 2015
- Page - 20 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
AAA Stamps tables at Expo 2015 in April Steve Burton is talking to Phil Morehouse
(on the left) and another customer
Tony Byrne at Expo 2015 in April setting up his tables
- Page - 20 ORANGE COIN amp STAMP CLUB INC NEWSLETTER FOR JUNE 2015
AAA Stamps tables at Expo 2015 in April Steve Burton is talking to Phil Morehouse
(on the left) and another customer
Tony Byrne at Expo 2015 in April setting up his tables
