Wayne K. Homren

COLLECTING INTERESTS:

Has collected coins since about 1968.

Numismatic Literature

U.S. encased postage stamps

Pittsburgh-area obsolete currency

Civil War Tokens

Charge Coins

1907 Clearing House Certificates

Nova Constellatio copper coinage

Confederate Half Dollar restrike & related pieces

  NATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

• The Rittenhouse Society
• ANA - American Numismatic Association
• ANS - American Numismatic Society
• NLG - Numismatic Literary Guild
• NBS - Numismatic Bibliomania Society
• SPMC - Society of Paper Money Collectors
• FCCB - Fractional Currency Collectors' Board
• TAMS - Token and Medal Society
• EAC - Early American Coppers, Inc.
• CWTS - Civil War Token Society
• JRCS - John Reich Collectors' Society

LOCAL AND REGIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

• PAN - Pennsylvania Association of Numismatists
• WPNS - Western Pennsylvania Numismatic Society
• PNS - Pittsburgh Numismatic Society
• SHCC - South Hills Coin Club
• PATCO - Pennsylvania Area Token Collector's Organization

OFFICES HELD:

• ANA - Chairman, Numismatic Information Network Committee
• ANA - Judge, Best-in-Show
• ANA - Judge, Best New Exhibitor
• ANA - Judge, U.S. Coinage, Tokens & Medals, Paper Money, Numismatic Literature
• NBS - Vice President and Board Member, webmaster
• PAN - President, Board Member, Convention Coordinator, webmaster
• WPNS - President, VP, Secretary, Treasurer, Curator, webmaster
• PNS - President, VP

EXHIBITS:

• 1^st Place, Tokens, 1988 ANA Convention
• 1^st Place, Local Interest, 1989 ANA Convention
• 1^st Place, 1990 PAN convention
• 1^st Place, Numismatic Literature, 1992 ANA Convention
• 3^rd Place, 1992 PAN convention

SPEAKER:

• ANA Numismatic Theater, 199? Convention "Encased Postage Stamps"
• NASC "Hobby Improvement Seminar", Long Beach Show, Feb 1995
• ANS Coinage of the America's Conference, 1994 "J.C Ayer and John Gault"
• ANA Numismatic Theater, 1997 Early Spring Convention "The Confederate Half Dollar"
• WPNS - speaks once a year on a numismatic topic
• PNS - speaks once a year on a numismatic topic

AUTHORED:

• Coin World, Jun 25, 1980, "Buyer's Fee Represents Disturbing Trend"
• Copperhead Courier (CWTS Journal) Summer 1984,   "Allegheny City: Gone But Not Forgotten"
• The Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, Jan 1987,   "The Shinplaster Prosecution of 1862"
• "The Early History of the Western Pennsylvania Numismatic Society" 1992
• The Numismatist, Nov 1992, "John A Beck, Collector"
• TAMS Journal, Jun 1993, "The Communion Tokens of the Second United Presbyterian Church of Allegheny, Pennsylvania" (with Lawrence C. Dziubek)
• The Numismatist, May 1994, "A Collector's Encounter With J.S.G. Boggs"  (3^rd Place Heath Literary Award)
• ANA Money Talks Script, "Japanese Internment Camp Tokens"
• Paper Money, Dec 1995, "Dinner, Dessert, and J.S.G. Boggs"
• COINLIBRARY.COM web site, Nov 1998
• The Civil War Token Journal, Summer 1999, "Medicine, Gold Dust, and Soda Pop: The Adventures of J.C. Buffum, Pittsburgh Entrepeneur" (with Lawrence C. Dziubek)

CONTRIBUTOR:

Borckardt, Editor, Walter Breen's Encyclopedia of Early United States Large Cents 1793-1814 (2001)

Bressett, Ken, Editor, A Guide Book of U.S. Coins (1988)  [corrected hometown of Frank Vittor, Gettysburg Half creator]