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The E-Sylum:  Volume 4, Number 37, September 9, 2001, Article 12

WAYTE RAYMOND ARTICLE 

   An article by David Alexander on "Numismatic Laureate" 
   Wayte Raymond was published in the October 2001 
   issue of Coinage magazine (p80-86).   The article tells the 
   story of Raymond's life and numismatic career, drawing 
   much from John J. Ford's obituary in the February 1957 
   Numismatist, which he notes, interestingly, was "the only 
   obituary ever to win the ANA's Heath Literary Award." 

   "Through Ford, Raymond was introduced to an already 
   eccentric young numismatic genius, Walter Henry Breen, 
   then about 22 years of age.  Raymond took the historic 
   step of hiring Breen to go to the National Archives in 
   Washington, D.C., and there research the total scope of 
   U.S. coinage from the original documents.  Breen was 
   surprised to find that no one had taken this direction 
   before, recalling later that he had to unseal bundles of 
   papers which had not been touched since being deposited 
   in the archives." 

   "The Raymond-financed investigation of he archives was 
   a revolutionary approach, and the results transformed the 
   face of American numismatics." 

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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