The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 51, December 16, 2007, Article 14

A ONE-PAGE HENRY COOK COIN CIRCULAR

Regarding the 1869 Henry Cook Coin and medal Circular I
wrote about last week, Numismatic Bibliomania Society
Secretary-Treasurer Dave Sundman writes: "Coincidentally,
on my desk I have a Henry Cook one page listing COIN CIRCULAR
that I purchased from Charles Davis at the summer American
Numismatic Association convention in Milwaukee.  This was
produced by Henry Cook when he was at 47 Waltham Street in
Boston, circa 1890 at the end of his career.  The piece
expresses very similar sentiments, perhaps a bit more
emphatically:

 In conclusion I would here give a little advice to the
 inexperienced.  Pay no regard to the many priced list
 of coin, etc. that are put in circulation by the coin
 dealers.  They are but advertising claptraps, and cannot,
 from the very nature of the business be of any weight
 either with buyer or seller.  Every collector or dealer,
 if honest, will tell you that no estimate can be formed
 of the value of coins, Medals, Antiques, etc. without a
 personal inspection of the piece or article of which
 his opinion may be asked.

 HENRY COOK'S COIN AND MEDAL CIRCULAR
 esylum_v10n50a14.html

[This is an age-old problem which continues today.  How
many dealers out there ask callers if they could hold the
coin closer to the phone so you can get a better look at it?
Even with electronic images, amateur photos are rarely good
enough to make even a cursory estimate of an item's
attribution and value.  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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