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  • The E-Sylum: Volume 6, Number 15, April 13, 2003, Article 12

    NUMISMATICS ON THE RADIO

    Leonard Augsburger writes: "Sometime somebody should
    write an article about coin shows on the radio - apparently
    this was a somewhat common thing in the 1930s. But since
    I brought up the subject, I did a little preliminary legwork.
    NIP gives some promising leads by entering the word "radio",
    and here are a few others I know of:

    [NIP is the Numismatic Indexes Project of the Harry Bass
    Foundation. Go to this address. -Editor
    http://www.harrybassfoundation.org/search_numlit.asp ]

    * William Brimelow had a radio show for coins in Elkhart, IN
    - this is mentioned several times in the Numismatic Scrapbook
    c. 1937 & also Hobbies magazine of the same period

    * Edward Weikert, Jr. had a letter to the editor in the May
    1943 Numismatist and an article in the November 1953
    Scrapbook. In The Numismatist he claims to have given
    radio presentations on numismatic topics.

    Here's the question, & the only way to answer it is to talk to
    some really old collectors - what the heck were they talking
    about on these programs? Did they bring along a copy of
    the latest Numismatist or club journal and just start reading it?
    These were long before the days of talk radio where you
    could have lots of callers chime in with stuff. Presumably
    they had to bring a fair amount of material into the studio."

    [I've read of B. Max Mehl's radio advertisements, but I'm
    not familiar with any numismatic radio shows of that era.
    Perhaps one of our readers can shed some light on the
    subject.

    Somewhere among my Howard Gibbs papers, I believe
    there is a script of a radio show he did one time. This may
    have been in the 1960's.

    In more recent times, I know that Jules Reiver was a regular
    guest expert on a radio show about coins in Delaware, before
    each of the Delaware Coin Club's coin shows. Here in
    Pittsburgh, we have "Coin Talk," a half-hour show airing on
    the first Friday of each month at 8pm on KQV 1410AM.
    The show began in January 2003. Sam Deep is the host,
    and I have been a regular guest expert. It's not a call-in
    show - we tape it in advance. The show is underwritten in
    part by the Pennsylvania Association of Numismatists, and
    is supported by five local coin dealer sponsors.
    -Editor]

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  • 2003-04-13
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  • 6

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