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VIDEO: JOHN HIGHFILL, PART 1 OF 3
The David Lisot Video Library on the Newman Numismatic Portal can be found at:
We highlight one of his videos each week in The E-Sylum. Here's one from 2016 with David interviewing National Silver Dollar Roundtable founder John Highfill. -Editor 
John Highfill talks about how he started in coins and became known for silver dollars. He shares how he started in coins more than 40 years working with Harrison Phillips, the influence of his mother, how met his wife Marlene, his children, his baseball career, how he got involved selling records for ABC, how he did is business in coins, sale of the 1852/51 Augustus Humbert for over a million dollars, founding the National Silver Dollar Roundtable, how he bought the Silver Dollar Convention in 1982, the NSDR and its people and website, how he sold a billion dollars of Beenie Babies, creation the first finest known Morgan collection, his time as a show promoter, creation of the "Comprehensive U.S. Silver Dollar Encyclopedia," stories of Walter Breen, and how he would want to be remembered. Featuring John Wayne Highfill, Founder, National Silver Dollar Roundtable, David Lisot, Interviewer, CoinTelevision.com. Publication date 2016.
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