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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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