Dear David,

I just read about and saw your Coin Album museum in The E-Sylum. Reading the next article in the issue about John Mercanti, the penny dropped, so to speak, and I wonder if you would like an example of the dinner program of the Annual Fall Banquet of PAN, Oct. 28, 2016 for your museum? I found it one of the most creative uses I have seen of a Whitman Folder. With each program signed by Mercanti.

If you would like one (and do not already have one), please send me an address where to send it.

All the best,
Harry

Thanks for the offer, and I accept gratefully. I have in my collection a specially prepared Whitman folder for Mercury Dimes from the 1942 Racine Numismatic Society Banquet, and this will be an excellent companion to it. The folder has no customized printing. Instead, it's a stock example of Number 9014 with dates and mintages ending at 1941, while the program is attached by a ribbon. Note that R. S. Yeoman was president at the time, and the program is overprinted with two letters "V" for victory.

I also have two folders for Central States Numismatic Society conventions. They're standard examples of Number 9046 with the commemorative text overprinted on their front covers.

This was one of the folders we did for the PAN Banquet when the ANA had their Fall Convention in Pittsburgh 2011. PAN held the Banquet instead of the ANA and we gave "Lifetime Achievement Awards" to the"three Dutchmen", John Eshbach, Gerry Kochel and Dick Duncan. Engraver, sculpture Jamie Franki was the guest speaker. Once again PAN President Tom Uram was the designer of the Banquet folder.