The latest addition to the Newman Numismatic Portal is the Gerry Fortin Rare Coins Daily Blog. Project Coordinator Len Augsburger provided the following report.
-Editor
Newman Numismatic Portal Adds Gerry Fortin Rare Coins Daily Blog
Recently added to the Newman Portal is the Daily Blog from Gerry Fortin Rare Coins (GFRC). After retiring from the semiconductor industry, Fortin launched GFRC in
2014 as a specialty dealer of Bust, Liberty Seated, and U.S. gold coinage. Fortin challenged himself to create fresh content on a daily basis, and the result today is essentially
the business diary of a specialized, Internet-based coin dealer.
Today’s culture is less formal than that of fifty years ago, and the ubiquity of information has created an expectation of transparency. Professional secrets, once closely
guarded by practitioners of any specific craft, are fewer are far between, and the occupational mysteries of nearly any profession can be uncovered with a simple Google query.
Fortin embraces all of this and opens his business to daily scrutiny – consignments come in, clients are served, and the challenges of travel, IT, photography, accounting, and
inventory control are on full view to the reader. Given such an approach, it is no surprise that Fortin agreed to contribute his archive to the Newman Portal repository. This is a
unique view of a particular coin business in a numismatic market that is becoming more and more defined by the Internet Age.
Link to Gerry Fortin Rare Coins Daily Blog archive on Newman Portal:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/publisherdetail/534276
Link to Daily Blog on Gerry Fortin Rare Coins site:
http://www.seateddimevarieties.com/DailyBlog.htm
Wayne Homren, Editor
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