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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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