The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 24, June 13, 2004, Article 11

WORLD COINS MAGAZINE

  John Isles of Hanover, MI writes: "I recently acquired some
  bound volumes of World Coins magazine apparently from the
  library of the late Herb Melnick.  (Three volumes have H. I.
  MELNICK in gold lettering on the front cover.)  They run
  from Vol. 2 (1965) through Vol. 13, Nos. 1-3 (January -
  March, 1976), but Vol. 5 is missing.

  I wanted to learn about the history of the magazine and
  discovered the following, which I thought might me of interest
  to our readers.

  The magazine World Coins was published monthly from
  January 1964 to March 1976.  It was a successor to World
  Coins Bulletin, whose last issue was in March 1963, and
  which was purchased by Sidney Printing and Publishing Co.
  in Sidney, Ohio.  World Coins was edited by Russell Rulau
  until May 1974, and then by Courtney Coffing.  From April
  1976 it was merged with the weekly Coin World.  (This
  information is from an editorial in the last issue of World
  Coins.)

  Melnick's obituary appeared in Numismatic News Vol. 30,
  No. 30 (July 24, 1982), p. 13, and in Coin World Vol. 23,
  No. 1163 (July 28, 1982), p. 3 ("Death claims Herb Melnick
  at home")."

  [Would anyone care to add to our history of this publication?
  I have a bound set as well.  And would anyone happen to
  know the whereabouts of the missing Melnick volumes 1
  and 5?  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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