The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 39, September 28, 2003, Article 20

VIRG MARSHALL ARTICLE

   The Internet makes the world a smaller place every day.
   How  else could we all have a chance to read a numismatic
   article from the Beatrice Daily Sun of Beatrice, Nebraska?
   The paper recently published an interview with longtime
   U.S. coin dealer Virgil Marshall, the "Penny Merchant"
   of Wymore, Nebraska:

   "In 1957 I had just gotten out of college. I was working for
   my father at Marshall Produce and a fella I worked with
   was a coin collector. He suggested that I collect coins,"
   Marshall said.

   He went down to the local dimestore, bought a folder for
  collecting dimes and started building a collection.

   "After four or five days I had collected 40 different dimes,"
   Marshall said.

   One of those happened to be a very rare coin.

   "I didn't know that until my friend told me though," he said.

   When his friend offered him $20 for the dime, Marshall chose
   to keep it instead.

   "I said I'll keep it.  It took me a week to find this one, what
   if I can't find another one," he said.

   In 45 years he has never found another.

   "That's what got me started.  If I hadn't found that one rare
   coin in the first week, coins probably would have been
   another fad. I probably would have moved on," he said.

   To read the full article, see
   http://www.beatricedailysun.com/articles/2003/09/20/news/news1.txt

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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