Query: What Is This?
Tom Caldwell of Northeast Numismatics writes:
Maybe an E-Sylum reader can tell us what this piece is. NGC did not really fully explain.
Hmmmm. Labeled as "FRANCE 10F INELIGIBLE TYPE", I'm not sure what this is, or just what the numbers mean. Is it some sort of trial planchet? -Editor
Photo Captions with Clifford Mishler and David Alexander
Clifford Mishler writes:
"I'm in agreement that the profile on the left certainly appears to me to be that of Hans Schulman, as Ken Bressett suggests."
"I also agree which Ken's observation that the profile on the right is not that of Abe Kosoff."
"The latter profile appears to me to quite likely be that of Charles Hoskins, later curator of the Detroit National Bank numismatic exhibit."
David T. Alexander writes:
"The photo of the Clain-Stefanellis and the late Hans M.F. Schulman is indeed puzzling. I believe that the figure at the right, across from Elvira is the late Carl W. Carlson, who may have
still been curator of the Garrett Collection at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Carl spent his later years as a lead cataloger at Stack's, where I worked with him in the early
1990's. A true genius-level numismatist, Carl had an amiable ego, "I'm a Mensa member, you know!"
Thanks. This photo has been a puzzle - we've gotten consensus on most of the people pictured, but the last one is still a mystery. -Editor
To read the earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
THE CLAIN-STEFANELLIS AT THE SMITHSONIAN (https://www.coinbooks.org/v23/esylum_v23n04a15.html)
NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: FEBRUARY 2, 2020 : Photo Captions with Ken Bressett
(https://www.coinbooks.org/v23/esylum_v23n05a11.html)
1998 25-year Britain in EU 50p Commemorative
David Pickup writes:
I found a commemorative 50p in the church collection last Sunday, two days after Brexit. It was issued in 1998 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Britain's accession to the EEC in 1973. Do you
think someone had been keeping it but decided to give it away or is it just coincidence?
Wayne Homren, Editor
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