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Is There A Modern Day B Max Mehl ?

STEWARTBLAYNUMISSTEWARTBLAYNUMIS Posts: 2,697 ✭✭✭✭
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We all know who Laura (Legend) is relating to Coin Dealers

but there is really noone with as much spunk and Hutspah as B Max

Mehl.Who do you think is the most colorful Coin Dealer of the day ?

Stewart

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  • JadeRareCoinJadeRareCoin Posts: 2,768 ✭

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  • goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
    Marty is just a whackjob.
  • BearBear Posts: 18,953 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Marty is just a whackjob. >>



    Yah, but he is our beloved whack job.image
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  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,797 ✭✭✭✭✭
    One of B. Max Mehl's greatest contributions to the hobby and business is that he made coin collecting popular among people who never collected before. In addition to being a world class dealer, he was a coin evangelist, of sorts. I see many world class dealers but very few expanding the coin collecting base.
    My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132
  • goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
    I suppose he is an ok guy.image

    I mean that strictly in a hetero way.
  • JulianJulian Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭
    Dave Bowers is the closest that we have today to Mehl, other than by blood (Coinguy1). He has written more about coins than has ever been written before and promoted the positive aspects of collecting.

    With TV, telemarketing, etc., there really won't be another Mehl. There are just too many ways to get to the public today. Mehl did it almost solely by the print method.
    PNG member, numismatic dealer since 1965. Operates a retail store, also has exhibited at over 1000 shows.
    I firmly believe in numismatics as the world's greatest hobby, but recognize that this is a luxury and without collectors, we can all spend/melt our collections/inventories.

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  • MichiganMichigan Posts: 4,942 ✭
    I think it would be difficult for anyone to be as well known today to the general public as Mehl was in his time.


    He advertised like crazy but there were far fewer media outlets available to reach people back then (mainly
    print but he did dabble a little in radio).

    In this multi-media age his message would just get lost in the shuffle.

    The $1 coin booklet and 1913 Liberty nickel promotion were perfect advertising tools.

    Anyone can send $1 in the mail and have fun looking for the elusive 1913 Liberty nickel.

    He was so well known that some mail addressed to him with no other address than.... "Coin man Texas"
    and "1913 nickel buyer" found its way to him in Fort Worth.
  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No. No modern equivalent.
    All glory is fleeting.
  • jacktheknifejacktheknife Posts: 1,547 ✭



    I'd say Stewart Blay!!!

    Oh, he's not a dealer image

    Jack

  • kiyotekiyote Posts: 5,580 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>We all know who Laura (Legend) is relating to Coin Dealers

    but there is really noone with as much spunk and Hutspah as B Max

    Mehl.Who do you think is the most colorful Coin Dealer of the day ?

    Stewart >>



    Those guys from the HSN shows... image
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