NUMISMATICS ON THE RADIO Público Deposited
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]- 2003-04-13
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