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The E-Sylum: Volume 18, Number 2, January 11, 2015, Article 12

MORE ON BERT COHEN AND MACERATED CURRENCY

Tom Elder's Macerated Currency Paperweights

Elder Macerated Currency Top Elder Macerated Currency Bottom

Tom DeLorey writes:

I used to own one of those Thomas L. Elder paperweights with the macerated money in it. As I recall, the surface that was pressed up against the glass was covered with various fragments cut or torn from common obsolete bank notes and glued onto the macerated plug to make it more interesting

I suspected that much. I know the format of macerated currency could have changed over the years, but some of those pieces seemed too large. -Editor

Bert Cohen's eBay Business
Ken Barr writes:

Regarding Pete Smith's inquiry, it appears that someone is continuing Bert Cohen's business after his death, as both his website (www.marblebert.biz) and his eBay account (marblebertbertram) are still active, the latter having received positive feedback for a sale within the past month.

Bert was universally acknowledged as having the best collection of macerated currency by far, with Ruth Bauer (the late Harry J. Forman's partner) probably a distant second. I had corresponded with Bert twenty or so years ago on the subject, and hoped that one day he would document his collection in a book or pamphlet, but no such luck. Macerated currency collectibles were produced between about 1874 and 1920, pressed into postcards, busts, monuments, medals, shoes, hats, etc. A quick search on eBay using "macerated" as a search term will show numerous examples, many from Bert's account.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: JANUARY 4, 2015 : More On Bert Cohen (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n01a09.html)



Wayne Homren, Editor

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