The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 49, December 8, 2002, Article 9

AT LEAST IT DOESN'T TAKE AN ACT OF CONGRESS

  To follow up on Larry Lee's discussion of the state of the
  Byron Reed collection, Bob Leonard writes: "In response, I
  would only state that a catalog of the pioneer fractional gold
  pieces in the Byron Reed Collection, if it still exists, will not
  be supplied by the Western Heritage Museum to numismatic
  researchers--so the data about them is less than if they had
  been sold at public auction.  Certainly no such catalog was
  ever published anywhere, and cannot be published now.

  Larry Lee advised me when I was frantically searching for
  this information that the Breen-Gillio catalog numbers are not
  noted in the Museum's copy of Breen-Gillio, nor written on
  the coin envelopes, nor anywhere else, apparently.  All that
  remains is a single, incomplete sheet lacking the essential
  Breen-Gillio numbers and corresponding weights.

  Actually I was advised to appeal to the city attorney, not the
  City Council, but any museum that requires an ordinance to
  be passed in order to find out what it has certainly proves
  my point.  As a nonresident of Omaha I did not expect that I
  would receive prompt action."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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