The E-Sylum:  Volume 4, Number 50, December 9, 2001, Article 4

COMMEMORATIVES VS. REGULAR ISSUES

  NBS board member John Kraljevich writes: "In perusing
  S.H. Chapman's 1907 Wilson sale lately, I noticed that the
  introduction mentioned that Wilson focused on the regular
  issue series of the U.S. Mint (unlike many sales to that date
  which included plenty of U.S. colonials, exonumia, and
  foreign issues I presume). Inside, the two commemoratives
  of the Columbian Expo and the Lafayette dollar were
  included among the "regular issue" pieces of their denominations.

  It got me thinking (with no particular impulse to discover
  the answer): when were "Commemoratives" first offered
  separately from their particular denominations in an auction
  catalogue?  It was also instructive (and perhaps closer to the
  truth) that the 1792 half disme was offered as a regular issue
  half dime."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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