The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 3, January 18, 2004, Article 13

CHARGE COIN BOOK PUBLISHED

  According to an item in the January 20 issue of Numismatic
  News (p30), "Alpert's Catalogue of Charge Coins" has been
  written and published by dealer Stephen P. Alpert of Los
  Angeles.  This is the book's first edition.  In his introduction,
  Alpert explains the history of charge coins, predecessors of
  the modern credit card."

  The 72-page book "sells for $15 postpaid, plus sales tax
  in California.  Send orders to Stephen P. Alpert, P.O. Box
  66331, Los Angeles, CA 90066."

  [Charge coins are another specialty of mine.  I collect by
   type nationally, and by variety for the Pittsburgh area.  The
  only prior work on the subject that I'm aware of is the one
  by Philadelphia-area collector Ed Dence, who published
  two or three editions of a simple photocopied catalog.
  The first one didn't even have an index.  I wrote one, sent
  it to Ed, and it was incorporated in the next edition.
  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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