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The E-Sylum: Volume 27, Number 32, August 11 2024, Article 15

WAYNE'S NUMISMATIC DIARY: AUGUST 11, 2024, PART I

The big week finally arrived - the American Numismatic Association summer convention, a.k.a the World's Fair of Money®. A little game I play is to see who's the first old numismatic friend I encounter at the show. Often this happens when checking into my hotel, or even before leaving the airport. This year it took until I entered the bourse floor where my good old friend Pat McBride from Pittsburgh was set up in costume as Ben Franklin. I was in costume as a Taylor Swift concertgoer.

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A close second was Brett Irick, and Pat and I chatted with him.

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The bourse floor was huge, packed, busy and loud. Lots of business taking place.

I made a beeline to the Numismatic Bibliomania Society table, where I found Jeff Dickerson hard at work creating book boxes, accompanied by President Len Augsburger and past President Tom Harrison. I gave Len a package containing a couple new numismatic ephemera acquisitions for digitization at the Newman Portal.

Charlie Davis
Nearby were the tables of literature dealer Charlie Davis and Kolbe & Fanning. Here are some photos of Charlie's table.

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At my request Charlie kindly gave me a closer look at two books with embossed and colored plates.

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John Dannreuther
I ran into JD and he showed me and Fred Holabird bound page proofs of his upcoming volume on proof silver coinage.

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Fred Holabird and John "JD" Dannreuther
  2024-08-07ANA Fred Holabird John Dannreuther silver proof book 3 obverse dies

JD explained that Mint records show that three different obverse dies were used for this date. Proving that and writing up this entry took a full two days. This is why numismatic books are worth every penny one pays.

Fred Holabird
Fred Holabird was sharing a table with Jeff Shevlin, where I also found my good friend Dave Schenkman. On display were selected lots from Fred's upcoming sale. More on these next week - some great long-off-the-market material.

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FROM LEFT: Dave Schenkman and Fred Holabird

I'll need to stop there for this week, but stay tuned for more in the next issue.

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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