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MORE ON CAMBISTSA reader remarked: I never heard the word "cambist" in my life.
Me neither, until I did. I learned the word "cambist" (and multiple unpublishable words and phrases) from my friend and poker-playing buddy John Burns, who in turn I'm sure learned "cambist" from reading the numismatic literature catalog descriptions of George Frederick Kolbe. George wasn't the first to deal in U.S. numismatic literature, but he was the first to take its cataloging to a new level of scholarship, just as John J. Ford had done with coin auction cataloging at New Netherlands in the 1950s. Here's the Merriam-Webster definition. -Editor 1 : one who deals in bills of exchange or who is skilled in the science and practice of exchange 2 : a table or manual giving the exchange values of moneys, weights, and measures of various countries To read the complete article, see:
Here are the cambists on the Newman Numismatic Portal. There must be more - would anyone have a list of cambists published in the U.S.? -Editor
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
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