The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 27, July 8, 2007, Article 6

REVIEW: HISTORY DETECTIVES TV SHOW NUMISMATIC SEGMENTS

Dick Johnson writes: "I caught the TV show History Detectives
segment on the Continental currency this week. It was pretty much
what I expected. It did feature interviews with two numismatic
personalities, Glenn Jorde, chief authenticator of the Paper Money
Guaranty authentication service and Bob Hoge, curator at American
Numismatic Society.

"E-Syluminiaries will recognize the scene in the ANS library with
their mobile bookcases. (I have mentioned these in E-Sylum before,
and have nightmares of being crushed by these someday). Most all
the statements were accurate, save for one segment at the end, kind
of a summary of coin collecting. They had to tell the story of the
bare breast design of Harmon McNeil's 1916 type I quarter, but their
misstatement was that all these were 'recalled.' They weren't, of
course.

"It was followed by a segment on short-snorters, also of interest
to currency collectors.  If you missed the show here is a transcription
of the audio portion (with Bob Hoge's name misspelled):
Full Story

[Actually, I think that link is broken.  Here's a link to the page
for the episode. -Editor]

Full Story

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