Miami Valley Coin Club

1948 – Dayton Coin Club & Central States

As the Dayton-Kettering Coin Club approaches it’s 75th anniversary in 2013, we’ll be revisiting club history pulled from our archives. Today we’re looking at the 1948 Central States Numismatic Association convention held right here in Dayton. The Central States web site has a nice article detailing the event. Here’s the first paragraph:

“Young and personable James Kelly, Dayton, Ohio, dealer and auctioneer, chaired the 1948 CSNS convention in Dayton, April 16-18, at the Van Cleve Hotel. The Dayton Coin Club and Ohio State Numismatic Association were co-hosts. Due to the Ohio location, a larger than usual attendance was anticipated with Western New York and Pennsylvania mentioned.”

You can read the rest of the article here. We also had several photographs that, while lacking inscriptions, are almost certainly from the banquet from 63 years ago described in the even. See if you can spot Redbook author Richard Yeo(man) in the pic below, as well  other members and the strolling accordianist refered to in the article.

Finally, per the club’s records, here’s a list of members who joined in 1948: John Theodore Klangnberg, Don Stoneburner, Mrs. Arthur J. Krause, Christan F. Beilstein, Louis L. Suttman, Buddy J. Zent, Ernest Collins, Edward C. Dill, Warren Lewis, Tim Dineen, Carl M. Bunker, Chester Ray, Eugene Bowie Jr., Huber Gillaugh, Howard L DeHart, Charles J. Soehner, Robert R. Davidson, Eugene T. Snow Sr., Ronald Hoying, John W. Frye, Rev. F.R. Soneburner, Daniel Jaques, Ivan Greenfield, and Herbert J. Hoehl.

No comments yet.

Leave a comment

You must be logged in to post a comment.