I came across a book/manuscript that is entitled American Colonial Coins & Tokens by Albert H. Wick. It's a first printing and is dated 1948. The cover is green paper and the contents look like the old mimeograph. Who was Albert Wick and did this book ever have any status?

Very scarce book. I don't have it in my own library. Don't think I've ever handled one.

Wick, Albert H. (1899-1977), 5437 Nagel Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. President of the St. Louis Numismatic Society. According to the 1930 U.S. Census he was born in New York in 1899, of two immigrant parents from Germany, Albert (1872-?) and Minnie Wick (1869-?). In 1948 he was appointed District Secretary of the American Numismatic Association.

That same year published his mimeographed book, American Colonial Coins & Tokens. A Review of the Issues from 1615-1792, and placed it in green wrappers. In 1949 he printed a 3-hole punched and stapled red card wrapper in a revised edition (44 pages), also containing History of Evolution of Money (13 pages), and Picking a Winner: A Short Study of American Coins, an Explanation of their High Catalogued Prices, and A Method of Predicting Future Prices of New Issues, Thru a Study of U. S. Mintage Charts (13 Pages). He was the ANA program chairman in 1970 for the convention at St. Louis. He died in March 1977 at his residence at 91340 San Fernando, Los Angeles, California. Bibliography : The Numismatist, Vol. 61, No. 5, May (1948) : 350 The Numismatist, Vol. 78, No. 8, August (1965) : 1259 Numismatic Scrapbook, Volume 36, No. 1 (1970) : 812