Senior FUN Member Jeanne Shepherd Remembers

Jeanne Shepherd, FUN Volunteer

Interviewer: David Lisot
Jeanne is the daughter of Robert Hendershott who founded the FUN organization in 1955. She reminisces about the early days of the hobby and how FUN has changed over the years.
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FUN11 Summer Orlando
July 7-9, 2011
Orlando, Florida

The Florida United Numismatists Summer Convention was held in Orlando, Florida, July 7-9, 2011. Dealers manned 192 bourse tables buying, selling and trading numismatic material including jewelry, treasure and other collectible items. Attendance was almost 3000 people in the three days the convention was held. The show is one of the most heavily advertised of any coin show in America with television commercials on all the major networks during prime time programming as well as cable television and talk and business radio. The major grading services ANACS, ICG, NGC and PCGS all had tables and were accepting coins for submission. Heritage conducted a rare coin auction. The Original Hobo Nickel Society had a table that included carving tools for making modern hobo nickels. Dennis Boggs was in attendance as Abraham Lincoln. Young numismatists attended the Boy Scout activities. Five numismatic seminars were delivered as part of the FUN educational program. The next FUN Convention will be held in Orlando in January 2012 and another Summer FUN has been scheduled for July of next year in Orlando.

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