The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 42, October 17, 2004, Article 14

MICKLEY A STATIONER?

  Regarding last week's question by Terry Stahurski, Karl
  Moulton writes: "Mickley was not a stationer.  He had no
  equipment at hand to print or publish anything.  His first
  publication "Dates of United States Coins and their Degree
  of Rarity" was published by Auner printers in the summer
  of 1858.  Even his business cards were printed elsewhere,
  according to his daily business journal.

  Also, his fame stemming from restrikes of American coinage
  is unfounded.  Although he had various old dies that were
  obtained at the Mint as scrap metal, there is no evidence
  that he was the one who created any of the restrikes that
  have been popularly attributed to him.  Professor Montroville
  William Dickeson and William Ewing DuBois, curator of the
  Mint cabinet are the prime candidates."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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