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The E-Sylum: Volume 11, Number 11, March 16, 2008, Article 14 GLEANINGS FROM RECENT NUMISMATIC PERIODICALS [Every now and then I find a little time to mention some interesting articles and tidbits appearing in recent numismatic periodicals. Readers are invited to do the same - there's far more great stuff out there these days than any one of us can read, let alone comment on. Bob Rhue did just that this week - many thanks for the head's up the Starred Reverse cent Article, which is discussed in the next item. -Editor] LIGHTHOUSE COLLECTION SAVED FROM EARTHQUAKE Alan Herbert's Coin Clinic column in the March 11, 2008 Numismatic News (p38) has a neat bit of numismatic trivia about the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Farran Zerbe (mis-spelled "Faran" in the article) "was in San Francisco the day before the earthquake of April 18, 1906, and wanted to see the J.D. Lighthouse collection of Roman and Greek coins. Lighthouse reluctantly agreed and removed the coins from the Palace of Art and took it to his home for Zerbe to view. By the time Zerbe was finished it was too late to return the collection to the Palace of Art. The next morning the earthquake destroyed the Palace along with the safe and all its contents." PHILADELPHIA GOLD HOARD OF 1872 The April 2008 issue of The Colonial Newsletter has a number of good articles, but I especially enjoyed John M. Kleeberg's piece on "The Philadelphia Gold Hoard of 1872" (p3235-3263). The article recounts and analyzes the discovery of the hoard which was reported at the time in the Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times, and the American Journal of Numismatics. Two of the finders of the hoard took pieces to William DuBois of the U.S. Mint, who reported that the dates of the coins ranges from 1660 to 1749, consisting of "gold coins of Spain and Spanish America, France and Portugal." Kleeberg discusses the known contents of the hoard of about 50 coins, which included two Brasher doubloons (Lima style, 1786 and New York style, 1787). He also makes a good case that the hoard had been assembled by a man named Peter Kurtz who lived at the location during the period when the coins freely circulated. Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@coinlibrary.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum | |
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