EVERETT JONES, 1933 - 2014

Colin Gullberg, editor of Chopmark News, the newsletter of the Chopmark Collectors Club writes:

CG: What made you start to collect chopmarked coins?

EJ: It was when I saw Rose’s exhibit at the ANA show in San Diego in the early 1980s. It was so fascinating and so different I just had to find out more about these coins. He had a beautiful exhibit and I had never seen anything like it before.

CG: Did you meet Frank Rose?

EJ: No, never. I wrote to him, this was before his book was out, and he replied that his book, Chopmarks, was going to be soon published. But that show was what started it all. But I did most of my collecting in the late 80s before too much infor-mation was out. Rose hadn’t even got his book out by then. So, I never met him but he did correspond with me.

EJ: Yes, it was a Bolivian 8 reales that a friend bought for me out of a junk box for $8. At that time that’s what they were, junk box coins.

CG: They aren’t $8 now.

EJ: No, at shows there just isn’t as much available now like it used to be.

CG: Why do you think that is?

EJ: I think they’re in collections, locked up.

CG: You started the newsletter before the internet existed.

EJ: Oh yeah. It was done on a typewriter. People today don’t even know what that is. I used my electric typewriter for the first few issues. I don’t know when eBay and the internet started but I’ve been on eBay for ten years.

CG: How did you get all your information when there was no internet?

EJ: Letters. I advertised in one of the coin papers and all the people that responded were the early members. I had a good response. The early group were quite responsive. Everything was done by mail. I did the layout and pictures myself.

For more information about the Chopmark Collectors Club, see: http://chopmarks.org

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