The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 42, October 2, 2005, Article 21

I WAS A TEEN-AGE NUMISMATIST

... and so was John Kraljevich of American Numismatic Rarities.
Dave Bowers' recent Coin World column about numismatic
figures who became prominent in the hobby as teenagers
reminded me of an article in the January, 1993 issue of COINage
magazine. "Heading for the Top," an article by Kari Stone (p94)
noted that "at 15, John Kraljevich, Jr. has already established
himself as a numismatic author and dealer."

"Kraljevich's most noteworthy numismatic research thus far is
his original research on the hoard of large cents 19th-century
numismatist John Swan Randall bought from an upstate New
York storekeeper. Kraljevich assembled examples of all of
the varieties from the hoard - which was dispersed beginning
in the late 1800s - and pored over early documentation,
including auction catalogs and letters from Randall to auctioneer
Ed Cogan in the 1860s and 1870s."

[When I was 15, I'm not sure I knew what a Large Cent
was, let alone who Randall and Cogan were! -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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