AFDCS offers 30,000 pennies to member number 30,000

By Linn’s Staff

Whoever becomes member number 30,000 of the American First Day Cover Society will be awarded a credit of 30,000 pennies, or the equivalent of $300, a June 28 press release said.

The individual who proposes member number 30,000 will also receive a $300 credit.

The winners can use their credits across the society’s website to buy first-day covers, catalogs and handbooks; to join, renew and upgrade memberships; to pay for auction bids and more.

Rules for the contest can be found online. Adult membership in the society starts at $24 per year.

As of early July, the society’s total member count since its 1955 founding is over 29,900, according to AFDCS president Lloyd DeVries, with about 1,200 current members.

The society’s earliest active member, Gerald Strauss, is its 10th member and the first editor of its journal First Days. The first member, Richard S. Bohn, passed away within a year of its founding.

The AFDCS is the largest nonprofit FDC society in the world, with members in more than a dozen countries. It publishes its award-winning journal, First Days, six times a year; holds fundraising auctions; is a co-sponsor of the annual Great American Stamp Show; conducts an annual cachetmaking contest; and encourages philatelic exhibiting and writing about FDCs.

More information about the society is available online; by emailing afdcs@afdcs.org; or by writing the AFDCS at Box 27, Greer, SC 29652-0027.

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