The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 6, February 6, 2005, Article 28

ON COUNTING THE NUMBER OF U.S. COINS

Saul Teichman writes: "With regard to the completeness
of the Eliasberg collection, it was missing some more
relatively common items such as an 1839 type 2 eagle
and, if I remember correctly, one of the 1866-S twenty
dollars was actually added for the sale. There is no
question, however, that the Eliasberg collection was the
finest both in grade and in completeness for a U.S.
collection ever formed.

The question is should he or the Clapp family get more
of the credit !!" Dick Johnson writes: "C#39;on Mark
Borckardt, you set up an Excel spreadsheet and listed
all the U.S. coins including die varieties and patterns.
You say this totals "about 10,000 entries." That#39;s not
very specific to answer the question of total number.
Please give us a more specific number. I wonder if you
have over 8,000 entries [650 above Breen#39;s total].
If you do, this should be published, perhaps in
checklist form."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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