MARCELLA SHELDON, 1911-1999

In all of our excitement surrounding the the availability of new online indexes to numismatic reference material, we should not forget the debt we owe those who laid the groundwork with both monetary donations and painstaking manual efforts.

An obituary published in the March 6, 2000 issue of COIN World honors Marcella Sheldon, widow of M. Vernon Sheldon and active collector in her own right. Her "personal card index for the first 40 years of The Numismatist later became the core of the published 50-year index for that American Numismatic Association journal.... Through a series of donations, she put up nearly $25,000 to update the library and its index."

Wayne Homren, Editor

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The E-Sylum: Volume 3, Number 9, February 27, 2000, Article 8

MARCELLA SHELDON, 1911-1999

Wayne Homren, Editor