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Due to some changes being done by our website hosting, the site may be down on Saturday August 21. Downtime can be anywhere from 6 to 24 hours. We apologize for any inconvenience.  

TEC will be at Table 11 at the World’s Fair of Money in Rosemont, IL in August. The table is right by the entrance to the Exhibit Area and next to Treasure Trivia.  Be sure to stop by and say hi!  TEC’s annual meeting will be held at the WFOM in Room 24 on August 13th.  The Board Meeting will take place from 8-9 and the Members Meeting from 9-1. If you’d like to preorder your items to pick up at the WFOM, check out the Presale area of our new shop!

We apologize for the inconvenience but maintenance is happening earlier than expected and areas of the site may not be accessible at this time.  Please check back soon.

The site will be going down for maintenance over the next few weeks. May 1 the online store and online join/renew form will be removed. If you’re thinking about making purchases or need to renew be sure to do that now! May 7 the entire site will come down for updates. We hope to be back up ASAP once maintenance updates have been completed.

TEC BOOK UPDATE 2-5-21 The above linked PDF is a listing of the good photos that we have for the Yesterday’s Elongated Update Project TEC has been working on.  If you have photos of any of the missing coins (from 1965 or earlier) please send them to pictures@tecnews.org for inclusion in the project.   Please send one image per email. Send as high of a resolution as you can in an image form (JPG, JPEG, GIF, etc. Not a PDF)  Please send any identification or other information you know about the coin as well. More detail can be found on the[…]

PHOTOs we have Listing 1-17-2021 The above linked PDF is a listing of the good photos that we have for the Yesterday’s Elongated Update Project TEC has been working on.  If you have photos of any of the missing coins (from 1965 or earlier) please send them to pictures@tecnews.org for inclusion in the project.   Please send one image per email. Send as high of a resolution as you can in an image form (JPG, JPEG, GIF, etc. Not a PDF)  Please send any identification or other information you know about the coin as well. More detail can be found on[…]

It is time once again for the annual TEC Coin Design Contest. Again, this year we will be judging young numismatist entries separate from regular members entries and announcing a winner from each group! The coveted prize of seeing your design rolled on to a penny will be awarded to each group! Also, once again the contest entry form contains a few lines where you can add notes about your design that will be shared with the judges. The notes are completely optional, but sometimes participants incorporate creative elements or symbolic gestures into their design that they would like to[…]

The Meeting Minutes from the August 8th Member Meeting have been added to the 2020 Annual Reports Page.

The store manager has received all of the pre-order items and will begin packing and mailing them this week!  Due to popular demand, there were a record number of orders placed and they will be filled and mailed in the order in which they were received.  Please be patient, but your items will soon be on the way to you.

We will hold our TEC Member Meeting and Auction via Zoom this coming Saturday, August 8, 2020, starting at 4:00 pm Eastern. If you want to attend and you haven’t already registered, please email Terri now. We will email the Zoom link to ONLY those members who have registered to attend. Here is the Agenda for the Meeting Here is the Auction Catalog so you can decide what you’d like to make your bid on! Be sure to check out the first page, which outlines how we’re going to conduct the auction via Zoom.