'Change In Money: Cowries to Credit Cards' Named Theme of 2012 National Coin Week, April 15-21
The 89th annual event will focus on how money has changed over the years and the innovations that have allowed those changes to occur.
Upcoming events
TREASURE HUNT: Receive a weekly video clue via YouTube and www.money.org.
The six clues will challenge participants to collect numismatic objects
or find answers to questions. All clues will deal with innovations in
money. Grand Prize: 1999 $25 American Eagle half ounce gold uncirculated coin!
(Plus other great prizes.)
To receive weekly clues via e-mail, send an e-mail to ncw@money.org with the subject line TREASURE
HUNT.
CLUB TRIVIA CHALLENGE:
Enter your ANA club in a 20-question trivia challenge dealing with
changes in money throughout history. Participating clubs will also
receive a package with buttons,
bookmarks and other promotional materials. Grand Prize: 2012
$10 American Eagle
quarter ounce proof coin and $100 ANA Club Bucks! (Plus other great prizes.)
To register your club for the trivia challenge and
receive promotional materials, e-mail ncw@money.org and provide your club's name and mailing
address.
For more information on how to get involved, email ncw@money.org. Read the full press release here.
Interactive Resources
Promote National Coin Week by using these promotional resources.
Create a Press
Release
Use our press release template to get the word out about National Coin Week and your club.
Create a Proclamation
Use this proclamation to have your local government official proclaim April 15-21 as National Coin Week.
Create a Promotional Brochure
Use our interactive PDF flyer to help promote
National Coin Week and your club. Open the flyer in Adobe Acrobat
Reader (free download)
and input your club's name and information.
Create your own National Coin Week mini exhibit
We've provided high-resolution PDFs of some of the Money Museum's most popular traveling exhibits on coins. These panels are sized at 11 inches by 17 inches.
- Coins of the Olympiads. Learn all about the coins of ancient Greece and the role they played in the ancient Olympic Games (3 panels).
- Benjamin Franklin: A Man for All Times. America's original jack of all trades has certainly shown up on his share of currency and medals, but he also came up with some of the original themes, slogans and designs on early American money (2 panels).
- Spades, Knives & Cash: The History of Chinese Coinage. The history of money in China can be traced as far back as the 2nd millenium, B.C. Take a trip through the ages to see how Chinese currency evolved over the centuries (4 panels).
- Money in Early America. What did explorers use for currency in the New World? Wampum, beaver pelts and foreign currency (3 panels).
- Money Makes the World Go Round. It's one of the few things common to all modern nations — it allows societies to function while reflecting history, aspirations and culture (2 panels).
- Victory at All Costs: Money of World War II. The impact of the Second Great War on world currencies was tremendous. In the United States, shortages and copper and fears of paper currency falling into enemy hands gave rise to the Steel Cent and Hawaii overprint notes. In nations conquered by the Axis powers, such as China and France, new currencies from the occupying nations was introduced. And in the Jewish concentration camps, crudely made scrip money was used among the prisoners (4 panels).
