If someone talked about numismatics over the airwaves in 1939, what did they discuss?
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If someone talked about numismatics over the airwaves in 1939, what did they discuss? Remarkably, we can answer that question, at least in a couple cases. Recently located in the Eric P. Newman papers are scripts for two presentations delivered by Newman in 1939 over St. Louis radio station WIL (the call letters predated the standard K-format now used west of the Mississippi). The June 11, 1939 script provided an overview of colonial numismatics, while the August 13 presentation related to Newman’s recently acquired 1861 St. Louis $10 demand note. This note ultimately appeared in Newman VIII (Heritage Auctions, November 2017), lot 28315, where it sold for $168,000.
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Here's the rest of the script if interested https://archive.org/details/Epn0930-1939wilradiopresentat/mode/2up
from the NNP
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Cool.
Mr_Spud
I would think some folks were discussing their gold hidden in vaults in Europe . Thanks 🙏
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The smart ones were probably keeping quiet about that.
Your correct. I imagine they were freaking out because of the war. Probably never thought they’d see their gold ever again.
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Current Numismatic topics such as the over saturation and production of commemms and mintmarks on everything.
Cool! Thanks for sharing.
A newp for good measure…