● Next Meeting Status:
Cancelled
● Host Society for the
BANS 2011 Congress
held in Southport
Society News
The Society’s Oddments Tray!
A cross between a diary and a newspaper, this page features those items of information about the Society and its Members which, we hope, will be of interest to a wider world.
OWLNS Celebrates Forty Years
How We Gave The Eagle & Child The Price Of A Pint.....!
● The Ormskirk and West Lancashire Numismatic Society traces its origins to the foundation of the Ormskirk & District NS in June 1970. Read here about our fortieth anniversary celebration.
The East India Company And Its Coins
A Fascinating Review By Peter R Thompson
● This book by Society Member Peter Thompson tells the story of the EIC’s coins within the story of the Company itself. In this way it aims to make the whole series more intelligible.
Where to next?
Merchant Countermarked Silver Coins
Spanish Dollars Overstruck
● Society Member Eric Hodge is well known for his researches into the countermarked silver coins issued by a number of factories and mills at the end of the 18th and the start of the 19th centuries.
David Coins It In For Charity
Autism Initiatives Benefits From Scrap
● Society Member and Southport Coin Dealer David Regan collects scrap redundant coinage,
and holiday left-
The OWLNS Newsletter
News and Articles by our Secretary and Members
● The restrictions in place to control the COVID pandemic have meant the end of our
regular Society meetings at the Eagle & Child until such time as the restrictions
and the risk of infection have substantially reduced. The maintain a degree of Society
activity, the Secretary and Members have produced a monthly Newsletter, which contains
a miscellany of items relating to the Society, and to Numismatics in general. To
read on-