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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3535713, member: 57463"]We were in Traverse City, Michigan, last weekend. It was a family event. On Sunday, we went shopping downtown and stopped in a Oryana Co-op to buy snacks. I took my change in Bay Bucks.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]939755[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia">"In the late summer of 2003, I head a radio interview on WIAA-FM, Interlochen, in which two Traverse City community activists explained their plans for a hometown money. They sounded competent and intelligent and the project was compelling to me as a numismatist. I tracked them down by asking around at the Oryana Natural Food Co-op. I found Natasha Lapinsky and Chris Grobbel at Ball Environmental Associates. Lapinksi holds master’s in terrestrial biology from NMU. Grobbel earned a doctorate in community development at MSU. I interviewed them (and others) for an article that ran in the November 13, 2003 issue of <i>Northern Express</i>. I wrote a follow-up article for the June 10, 2004 issue.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">"Lapinski and Grobbel told me that during the Great Depression, Traverse City had its own local currency, but that they had never seen one, only heard about this. So, I visited Coins & Collectibles on State Street, and talked to the guys. Richard Bond lent me samples of each of the two “Roosevelt” notes created in 1933. David Croad came up with an array of local tokens. From the ANA, I borrowed the Mitchell & Shafer catalog and the Curto monograph. I rejoined Mich-TAMS, and Paul Manderscheid of Liberty Coins in Lansing mailed me a sheaf of materials including his own notes updating Cunningham’s catalog."</font></p><p><br /></p><p>For more information about creating their community currency, read here:</p><p><a href="https://michigancoinclub.org/Articles04.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://michigancoinclub.org/Articles04.html" rel="nofollow">https://michigancoinclub.org/Articles04.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Launching Bay Bucks here:</p><p><a href="https://www.northernexpress.com/news/feature/article-488-local-money-plan-for-homegrown-currency-has-a-rich-past/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.northernexpress.com/news/feature/article-488-local-money-plan-for-homegrown-currency-has-a-rich-past/" rel="nofollow">https://www.northernexpress.com/news/feature/article-488-local-money-plan-for-homegrown-currency-has-a-rich-past/</a></p><p>(For other stories in <i>Northern Express</i>, put "community currency" and "Bay Bucks" in the search box.)</p><p><br /></p><p>You can read a CoinTalk thread about community currencies here:</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/community-currencies.132816/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/community-currencies.132816/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/community-currencies.132816/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3535713, member: 57463"]We were in Traverse City, Michigan, last weekend. It was a family event. On Sunday, we went shopping downtown and stopped in a Oryana Co-op to buy snacks. I took my change in Bay Bucks. [ATTACH=full]939755[/ATTACH] [FONT=Georgia]"In the late summer of 2003, I head a radio interview on WIAA-FM, Interlochen, in which two Traverse City community activists explained their plans for a hometown money. They sounded competent and intelligent and the project was compelling to me as a numismatist. I tracked them down by asking around at the Oryana Natural Food Co-op. I found Natasha Lapinsky and Chris Grobbel at Ball Environmental Associates. Lapinksi holds master’s in terrestrial biology from NMU. Grobbel earned a doctorate in community development at MSU. I interviewed them (and others) for an article that ran in the November 13, 2003 issue of [I]Northern Express[/I]. I wrote a follow-up article for the June 10, 2004 issue. "Lapinski and Grobbel told me that during the Great Depression, Traverse City had its own local currency, but that they had never seen one, only heard about this. So, I visited Coins & Collectibles on State Street, and talked to the guys. Richard Bond lent me samples of each of the two “Roosevelt” notes created in 1933. David Croad came up with an array of local tokens. From the ANA, I borrowed the Mitchell & Shafer catalog and the Curto monograph. I rejoined Mich-TAMS, and Paul Manderscheid of Liberty Coins in Lansing mailed me a sheaf of materials including his own notes updating Cunningham’s catalog."[/FONT] For more information about creating their community currency, read here: [url]https://michigancoinclub.org/Articles04.html[/url] Launching Bay Bucks here: [url]https://www.northernexpress.com/news/feature/article-488-local-money-plan-for-homegrown-currency-has-a-rich-past/[/url] (For other stories in [I]Northern Express[/I], put "community currency" and "Bay Bucks" in the search box.) You can read a CoinTalk thread about community currencies here: [url]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/community-currencies.132816/[/url][/QUOTE]
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