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• The E-Sylum: Volume 4, Number 36, September 3, 2001, Article 7
  

  PROMINENT NUMISMATIC AUTHORS
  

  H. Douglas Owens writes: "The reference to Edward Gibbon
  got me to wondering what he wrote in the numismatics field.
  I wonder whether other numismatic works have been authored
  by persons who rose to prominence in other fields. Can you
  or other readers help? Many thanks."
  

  [Back in March we addressed a related question posed by
  E. Tomlinson Fort: "Who is the only numismatic author ever
  to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?" (See vol 4, nos. 10-12).
  It turns out there were two such authors. Other related topics
  have been celebrities who collect coins, such as James Earl
  Jones (See vol 3, nos. 20-23). -Editor]
  

  For the less prominent among us, Carl Honore writes: "for
  those aspiring writers, try writing for your local newspapers first.
  I have a pending coin column in preparation for my local paper
  here in Sequim. It's a way to get started..."
  

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• http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v04n36a07.html

Fecha de publicación

• 2001-09-03

Volumen

• 4

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