The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 6, February 9, 2003, Article 11

THE AMERICAN NUMISMATIST

  David Crenshaw writes: "In the last E-Sylum, Ken Lane asked,
  "Who wrote the 1888 4-page pamphlet "The American
  Numismatist?" Well, Ken, Dr. George F. Heath issued the
  pamphlet. The word ?American? was dropped from its title in
  subsequent issues.  This publication eventually became the
  official journal of the American Numismatic Association. "The
  Numismatist" saw minimal change over the years until its recent
  makeover including a change in name to "Numismatist."

  Jess Gaylor submitted this reference: "The American
  Numismatist, Vol. I, No. 1.  Paterson, NJ, September, 1886"

  NBS Board member Joel Orosz sets us straight about both
  publications:  "If Mr. Lane is referring to the first magazine by
  that name, it was published only from September, 1886 to
  December 1887, when its name changed to The Collector's
  Magazine.  Its publisher was Charles E. Leal, of Paterson,
  New Jersey.  I wrote a detailed article on this periodical in my
  "Printer's Devil" column in The Asylum, for Winter of 1997.
  In it, I question the conventional wisdom that Leal's periodical
  prompted Dr. George Heath, of Monroe, Michigan, to drop
  the "American" from his initial title for "The Numismatist", which
  was "The American Numismatist".

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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