The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 29, July 14, 2002, Article 9

YOU CAN GET AN AUCTION INDEX.

  Dick Johnson writes; "There is a one-word answer to Karl
  Moulton's discussion (and previously by John J. Ford Jr.) of
  an auction index mentioned in last week's E-Sylum.  That
  one word is:  "Grants".  If you want something done in the way
  of numismatic research, writing or indexing, establish a grant
  for this and fund it.

  There are a handful of us researchers in the numismatic field
  who have received grants for such numismatic drudge work.
  I won't reveal who -- or how -- we get these grants.  But I
  will say most of the others are academics with lots of university
  degrees (and letters after their name from the fields of history
  and such). I am one of the few who are more commercial
  (my degree was in business).

  I like numismatic projects whose end result is a book which
  will have the greatest benefit to the largest segment of our field.
  Case in point is my current project, nearing publication, a list
  of all the coin and medal artists in America (the designers,
  diesinkers, engravers, medalists and sculptors who create our
  beloved coins and medals).

  There are costs involved in numismatic research (travel takes
  the biggest chunk).  Sure, you can write sitting in your
  personal library, and you can even gather a lot of information
  on the internet. But for most research, I have found, you have
  to travel.  The desired data is always located at a distance.

  I will be eternally grateful to the Pennsylvania Association of
  Numismatists for bestowing on me two of their grants. Their
  officers recognized this, and even called it a Research Travel
  Grant."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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