The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 40, September 18, 2005, Article 5

GETTING THE HAWAIIAN COIN SALE FACTS STRAIGHT

Coin World Editor Beth Deisher writes in her editorial in the September
26th issue: "... another story in the news in this issue proved difficult
to ferret out. Announcement in late August in daily newspapers,
wire service reports and Internet snippets that coins, medals and bank
notes from the estate of Samuel Mills Damon of Honolulu, Hawaii, would
cross the block in New York City sometime in early 2006 brought a
flood of calls and messages from collectors demanding to be immediately
informed of all of the details of the items in the collection. In our
initial inquiry we learned that much of what had been reported in the non-
numismatic press was in error. That's when we turned to Andrew Perala,
a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist based in Hawaii, who also happens to
be a coin collector. In an exclusive account, Perala provides accurate
highlights of the more than 6,000 items in the Damon Collection that
for many decades reposed hidden away in a safe deposit vault."

We first noted this story in the August 21, 2005 issue of The E-Sylum
(v8n36), quoting a story in The Honolulu Advertiser pointed out to
us by Dick Johnson. Many thanks to Coin World for investing the
time and money to get the story right. Perala turned in a great
page-one story, and I recommend it to all. -Editor

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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