The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 32, August 12, 2007, Article 25

NEW HAMPSHIRE GOVERNOR VISITS LITTLETON COIN COMPANY

On Monday, New Hampshire Governor John Lynch visited the town of
Littleton and made a stop at Littleton Coin Company.  His visit was
chronicled in the Caledionian-Record of Vermont.

"After getting an earful about health care needs, and being very
impressed by what happens each day at Littleton Regional Hospital,
the governor headed over to the Littleton Coin Co. for an up-close
and personal look at one of the region's top employers - employing
360 people, said Milton Bratz, director of Administrative Operations.

"The company was a dream of Maynard Sundman, who was a coin collector,
and after the war desired to start a company based on his passion -
he found an investor and had his wife look for a site in New Hampshire.

"They moved the fledgling business from Bristol, Conn., to Littleton,
the 92-year-old Sundman shared with the governor. He said the city he
grew up in had a brass mill, and he got the idea that a coin company
would make a good business.

"The governor and he inspected the old Royal typewriter he still
uses, 'but not for important things,' he said with a smile.

"Bratz told the governor that even when the economy isn't so strong,
that people continue to purchase things for their hobbies - such as
coin and stamp collecting. People may cut back on eating out or buying
fancy suits, but they 'keep buying stamps and coins.'

"The plant, located in the Littleton Industrial Park, has expanded
several times and occupies an 85,000-square foot facility.

"Littleton Coin has 'the largest inventory of any coin company in
the United States,' today, said Bratz, as Gov. Lynch moved around
the company, learning about the ins and outs of collecting new
coins, and the value of ancient coins excavated the world over."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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