Each year, the ANA chose a difference city for its summer convention the last ANA summer convention in Los Angeles was in 1975 at the newly opened Airport Marriott Hotel. In addition to the venerable Los Angeles Coin Club, founded around 1927 the oldest in Southern California clubs arose in Pico Rivera, La Mirada, Santa Ana, Riverside, Downey, Upland, Fontana, Verdugo Hills, Glendale, and by the mid 1960s there were more than 75 coin clubs in Southern California.īack in 1955, a coalition of some of these clubs formed the Numismatic Association of Southern California and in 1958 hosted the American Numismatic Association's annual summer convention. 100.Īt the same time, new clubs were sprouting up in almost every Southern California community. 64, and within a year, they had already signed up member No.
When I joined the Whittier Coin Club, I was member No. It was founded in 1959 as the Santa Fe Springs Coin Club and within a year had outgrown its meeting place and moved to the old Bailey School in uptown Whittier.Įarlier in 1960, Coin World came on the numismatic scene, which rapidly increased the general interest in coin collecting. Joined my first coin club, the Whittier Coin Club, in 1961.
The Coin Club Renaissance Years, 1960-1980
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