The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 46, October 30, 2005, Article 21

NEW CENT VARIETIES: 1909 VDP AND 1909 VSP

The October 23 issue if the Ottumwa Courier of Ottumwa, IA
marks a new low in mainstream reporting on numismatics. The
reporter could have checked his facts and spelling just about
anywhere, but managed to misspell Victor David Brenner's
initials twice in the same paragraph, never once getting it right:

"If you want a banner year for coin collectors, you look at 1909.
Denny Ross knows about it. He said the VDP penny got its name
from the artist who designed it. The initial minting had VSP, the
artist's initials, in large print on the coin."

Johnny-on-the-spot David Sklow, former numismatic literature
dealer, cataloguer and NBS officer (and now the Numismatic
Researcher and Historian for the American Numismatic
Association) saw the story and entered a correction on the
newspaper's web site.

To read the full story, and David comments, see: Full Story

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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