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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.
New and Retired Machines – March
New Machines:
States:
- AZ, Holbrook, Navajo County Historical Society 4 designs (Re-opened after COVID closure)
- CA, Huntington Beach, Huntington Beach Pier 4 designs (Near the gift shop)
- CA, Ojai, Treasures of Ojai 4 designs (Machine from the Kingston’s Candy Company)
- CA, Pismo Beach, Boardwalk Plaza – Hot Shots Billiards & Family Entertainment Center 4 designs (It’s Back!!!)
- FL, Daytona Beach, Buc-ee’s 4 designs (Opened Monday 3/22/21)
- FL, Miami, Hard Rock Café 4 designs
- GA, Fort Valley, Buc-ee’s Warner Robins Travel Center 4 designs
- HI, Volcano, Volcano House @ Hawaii Volcanoes National Park 4 designs
- MD, Baltimore, Hard Rock Café 4 designs
- MO, Branson, Prehistoric Fossils 3 designs
- MS, Jackson, Jackson Zoo 4 designs (Open after COVID Closure)
- NC, Raleigh, Raleigh Union Station 4 designs
- TN, Gatlinburg, Tennessee Shine CO 4 designs
- TN, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee Shine CO 4 designs
- TN, Sevierville, Tennessee Shine CO. 4 designs
- TX, Abilene, The Grace Museum 1 design (Re-opened after COVID closure)
Foreign:
- Netherland, Zoutelande, Zoutelande strand 3 designs
Private Roller
- None
Temporarily Unavailable: Removed or out of season closure.
- CA, Sanger, Pine Flat Lake (Visitor Center being renovated, machine inaccessible)
Temporarily closed or machine unavailable because of COVID-19. These and many others – Check the areas websites for details)
States
- AZ, Tucson, Kitt Peak National Observatory
- AZ, Tucson, Old Tucson Studios
- CT, Groton, USS Nautilus/ Submarine Force Museum
- FL, Eglin Air Force Base, Air Force Armament Museum
- HI, Maui – Waikapu, Maui Tropical Plantation & Country Store
- MA, Worcester, Worcester Historical Museum
- NC, Kitty Hawk, Southern Shores Pizza & Deli
- NV, Las Vegas Luxor Hotel Casino – Titanic Exhibition
- NV, Las Vegas, MGM Grand Hotel & Casino – CSI: The Experience
- PA, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Insectarium and Butterfly Pavilion
Foreign
- None
Retired Machines/ Designs:
States:
- AZ, Tucson, Tucson Mall
- CA, Venice Beach, Venice Beach Boardwalk
- MI, Frankenmuth, Frankenmuth Jellystone Park
- NV, Las Vegas, Bally’s Hotel Casino – Grand Bazaar – Viva Vegas (Out Front)
- OH, Utica, Velvet Ice Cream
- RI, Misquamicut, Beach Store, The
- TN, Memphis, Beale Street Gifts
- TN, Pigeon Forge, Marathon Gas Station/Ken Jo Market (New owner of location, machine gone)
Foreign:
- New Zealand, Queenstown, Shot Over Jet Boat Thrill Attraction – Queenstown
New and Retired Machines – February
New Machines:
States:
- AK, Anchorage, H2Oasis Indoor Waterpark 4 designs, (Nickel machine).
- CA, San Diego, Belmont Park Machine 2 – 4 designs (It’s back!)
- DE, Bethany Beach, Rhodes Five & Dime (It’s Back! Unknown what condition the press is or if the design has changed)
- GA, Sylvester, Worth County Chamber of Commerce 4 designs
- MI, Hickory Corners, Gilmore Car Museum 5 designs
- TN , Pigeon Forge, Crave Golf Club (Mini Golf)
Foreign:
- Hong Kong, Lantau Island, Ngong Ping 360 Cable Car – Tung Chung Terminus (It’s Back!)
- Japan, Ise – Mie Prefecture, Ise Sea Paradise (Aquarium/ Sea Park) 3 designs
- Japan, Shima – Mie Prefecture, Shima Spain Village Parque Espana 3 designs
- Japan, Toba – Mie Prefecture, Toba Aquarium 2- 3 design machines 6 designs
Private Roller
- Osvaldo L. Cangas Miami Florida 1 design
Temporarily Unavailable: Removed or out of season closure.
- None Noted
Temporarily closed or machine unavailable because of COVID-19. These and many others – Check the areas websites for details)
States
- HI, Oahu – Honolulu, Honolulu Zoo
- ID, Idaho Falls, Infinity Coins
Foreign
- Germany, Trier, Spielzeugmuseum (Trier Toy Museum)
Retired Machines/ Designs:
States:
- CA, Sacramento, Old Sacramento – Sam’s Café (Closed)
- CT, Norwalk, The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk
- FL, Destin, McGuire’s Irish Pub of Destin
- OR, Portland, Oaks Park – Skating Rink
- WA, Tacoma, Steamer’s Seafood Cafe
Foreign:
- None noted
Yesterday’s Elongateds Project Update
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 Yesterday’s Elongated Project page.
Yesterday’s Elongateds Project
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 the Yesterday’s Elongated Project page.
2021 Design Contest
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 bring to the judges’ attention and we are giving you a space to do that.
And now on to this year’s theme! This has been a difficult year for most of us. In fact, some of us would like to do a reboot and skip 2020 altogether. If you look close enough you will find the good in everything.
That brings us to this year’s theme……What I’m Thankful For….
The board feels this theme will allow for a great variety of different designs and let everyone express themselves and create some amazing coin designs. Interpretation of the design contest theme is completely up to the participant. If you are inspired by more than one idea, don’t limit yourself and submit more than one design. If you are a new member, young numismatist, or never submitted an entry to the design contest before, we encourage you to put some ideas to paper and submit multiple entries this year! For past contest participants, we hope to see your creativity shine through again this year!
The TEC Design Contest is open to all current and active TEC members. Using the entry form linked below, submit a design based on the contest theme. If you haven’t paid your dues for 2021, please do so before entering the contest. All entries are due by February 19, 2021 and the entry form contains more information about the contest rules and prizes. Judges, consisting of the TEC Board and last year’s winner, will be looking for originality of the design and appropriateness to the theme.
Good Luck!
Design Tips:
- The winning design will be reduced to fit on a penny! Strive for bold and simple designs and avoid very small details and text.
- Do not use copyrighted logos or images.
- “TEC” and “2021” must appear somewhere in the design.
- While entries are unlimited, avoid submitting the same design with multiple variations.
- When submitting via email, please consider image quality as entries are provided to the judges “as received.”
- When submitting “Snail Mail” please allow extra time for delivery to ensure that it will arrive prior to the deadline. We don’t want anyone left out.
- Most of all – Have Fun!
New and Retired Machines – November
With the closing of YahooGroups, we will now be posting the new and retired machines listing here on the site monthly.
11/01/2020 to 12/01/2020
New / Retired Machines:
Member Meeting Minutes
The Meeting Minutes from the August 8th Member Meeting have been added to the 2020 Annual Reports Page.