Last week Jim Neiswinter offered this quiz. -Editor
Jim asked:
"I've attached photos of three locations related to numismatics - two in New York City, one on Long Island. Try to figure out who owned these places.
The first was in the 1800s
The second in the 1900s
The third in the 2000s"
While the quiz asked "Try to figure out who owned these places", the question was only about the numismatic connection. -Editor
Scott Barman writes:
"Isn't the third one at 470 Park Ave in NYC where Stack's, or Stack's-Bowers, moving to?
I'll miss their old store that was almost a block away. I remember my father taking me there as a child when I started to get into coin collecting. Once a year he would take me
to work with him in midtown. After work we would go over the Stack's and would get coins. That's how I completed a Roosevelt Dime collection when I was younger."
Pete Smith writes:
"The tall skinny building was where Augustus Sage lived when he held a meeting to found the American Numismatic Society. It was a rented apartment.
"The gray house was once owned by John J. Ford. That one was easy.
I believe the final picture represents a bank building at 470 Park Avenue. Stack's Bowers Galleries is moving to that address."
Correct! Pete was the only reader to attempt all three, and the first to correctly name them. Congratulations! -Editor
Jim Neiswinter writes:
"The five story building is at 121 Essex St. This was the address where Augustus Sage lived and the site of the first ANS meeting in 1859. But since this particular
building wasn't built until 1874 it is not the building where the 1st meeting was held.
The house at 176 Hendrickson Ave. in Rockville Center was the home of John Ford until 1987. Ford had a bomb shelter/vault in the basement.
470 Park Ave. will be the new home of Stacks/Bowers."
Thanks, everyone. -Editor
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
QUIZ: NUMISMATIC MYSTERY ADDRESSES (https://www.coinbooks.org/v23/esylum_v23n15a21.html)
Wayne Homren, Editor
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