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V25 2022 INDEX E-SYLUM ARCHIVE MARTIN PURDY INTERVIEWE-Sylum contributor Martin Purdy of New Zealand was interviewed by a reporter visiting a local club event. Here's an excerpt. -Editor 
A lifelong journey of explorations is how many stamp and coin collectors describe their passion. It often began early in life with a small bag of coins collected or inherited from relatives combined with a healthy dose of curiosity and speculation about the origin and journey of these simple treasures. Many find they are able to combine coin collecting with other interests such as history or languages. A number of lower North Island collectors of coins, medals, banknotes and tokens gathered in Levin recently to natter about their finds. Martin Purdy from Upper Hutt grew up in Levin and graduated from Horowhenua College. His family came here from England when he was a child and had among their possessions a pocketful of small coins, which set him on the journey of a lifetime collecting coins. He is a member of the Royal Numismatic Society and compiles catalogues for it on New Zealand medals. He combined an early interest in languages with his hobby of collecting foreign coins. "I prefer the coins that have been in circulation," he said. "I read all the books on coins the Levin library had and once I was working – as a translator – I bought copies of these books," he said. "Books are the best source for information. Not everything is online." Today he researches and catalogues and spent years editing the Numismatic Society's Journal, which comes out once a year. He expects his current project, cataloguing New Zealand's medals, to take 10 years. Martin is editing a multipart edition of the "Morel" catalogue of New Zealand commemorative medals. -Editor
Martin adds: "We had 100 copies of each of the three available chapters of the Morel book (1920s, 1930s, 1939-40 Centennial - 64, 64 & 100pp respectively) printed in colour by request. Not sure what international postage would be but I'd be happy to make enquiries if anyone was interested."
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