FEATURED WEB PAGE Pubblico Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 7, Number 24, June 13, 2004, Article 15
FEATURED WEB PAGE
This week's featured web page is from the Russ Logan
collection site. It pictures an 1829 U.S. Bust Half Dollar
with a "Houck's Panacea Baltimore" counterstamp."According to Gregory Brunk in American and Canadian
Countermarked Coins, Jacob Houck operated his business
at the corner of German and Hanover streets in Baltimore,
and advertised in the 1842 Matchett's Baltimore City Directory.
His product, Houck's Panacea, was prepared from vegetable
matter and cured a variety of ailments."- 2004-06-13
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