The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 19, May 5, 2002, Article 2

KOULTZ' ALLOY UNMASKED?

  David Cassel has written a follow up article to an interesting
  subject addressed in his ?United States Pattern Postage
  Currency Coins,? published in 2000, a survey of U.S. pattern
  Postage Currency 10 cent coins of 1863 and the related issues
  dated 1868 and 1869.  His research involved searches through
  many documents both numismatic and scientific.

  A German chemist named Koulz was said to be the inspiration
  for both the reverse design, ?SIL.9? over ?NIC.1? pieces. An
  effort to garner some additional information on Koulz, proved
  fruitless.  Despite help of numismatists in Germany and the
  United States using the facilities of libraries, encyclopedias, and
  the Internet, Cassel  could come up with not a single reference
  to Koulz, not even his first name.

  Cassel found the name Koulz may have been a simple
  typographical error that originated in 1869 with the publication
  of  ?Suggestions to Congress of the Finances of the United
  States? submitted to the Chamber of Commerce of New York,
  by H. E. Moring.

  So who was the mystery chemist?  Look for Cassel's complete
  article in an issue of our print journal, The Asylum, later this
  year.

  [I hate to be a tease, but The Asylum staff won't let me
   publish EVERYTHING here - we have to save SOME
   goodies for members...  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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