The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 27, July 8, 2007, Article 7

WAYTE RAYMOND STANDARD CATALOGUE INFORMATION

Regarding Ron Pope's question last week on the Wayte Raymond Standard
Catalogs, David Gladfelter writes: "See entry #867 in Charles Davis's
'American Numismatic Literature' for information on this series of
catalogs.

"The 1935 edition (published in 1934) was the first, and it continued
annually through the 1945 edition (published in 1944) except for 1943
when only a 16-page supplement was published. The 1946 edition was
the first numbered one, the 11th, and thereafter this catalog was
published irregularly through the final 18th edition of 1957, of
which Olga E. Raymond, Wayte's widow, was the editor. In that edition
only, the substantial contributions of John J. Ford, Jr., and Walter
H. Breen were recognized, although the 1938 edition and all subsequent
to it did list names of the contributors.

"The contents of the catalogs, as well as the titles, varied somewhat
from year to year. The 1940, 1941 and 1942 editions had extensive
merchant token supplements and for that reason are desired by token
collectors. Others included listings of colonial, obsolete and
confederate paper money.

"None of the editions are particularly rare, but a precursor, titled
'United States Coins & Currency' and consisting of five separate WR
publications bound together, is quite scarce. This precursor was
advertised for sale at $2.50 on the inside front cover of the first
five issues of Raymond's 'Coin Collectors Journal' in 1934. The
separate publications included are 'The United States Copper Coins'
(1931), 'Silver Coins of the United States Mints' (1933), 'United
States Gold Coins of the Philadelphia and Branch Mints' (1933),
'Private Gold Coins Struck in the United States, 1830-1861' (1931)
and 'United States Notes, 1861-1923' (1933).

"As you can see, Raymond's topical catalogs as well as the 'Standard
Catalog' had quite an influence on the development of the coin hobby
in the U.S. in the early to mid 20th century. Raymond also influenced
the collecting of world coins, publishing five editions of 'Coins of
the World -- Twentieth Century Issues' through 1955 and two of 'Coins
of the World -- Nineteenth Century Issues' through 1953, in a similar
format.

"For the specialist, interleaved copies of these catalogs, as well as
fancy bindings can be had. Plain brown paper dust jackets were provided
for the early issues, and illustrated ones for the last few.

"Now for a trivia question:  What rather prominent mistake can be found
in each and every edition of the 'Standard Catalog of United States
Coins' from the first through the 18th?"

[I was stumped on this one.  Can some eagle-eyed reader give us an
answer?  -Editor]

 WAYTE RAYMOND STANDARD CATALOGUE INFORMATION SOUGHT
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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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