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The E-Sylum: Volume 18, Number 33, August 16, 2015, Article 8

NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: AUGUST 16, 2015

Was Hans Schulman Responsible for 'Hogmouth'?
Bob Leonard writes:

1770 coin of Leopold the Hogmouth I believe that the "Hogmouth" sobriquet was thought up by coin dealer Hans M. F. Schulman, probably in the 1950s, as a way to get a better price for these common coins. If you do a Google search, you quickly notice that ALL of the "Hogmouth" references are to coins; none are to any conventional biography of him, much less any Austrian mentions. "Hogmouth" appears in the Wikipedia article, but only in reference to a coin. Leopold I was never called this during his lifetime.

Does anyone have more information on this? When and where was the first numismatic reference to Leopold I as "Hogmouth"? -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
BEST. ROYAL. NICKNAME. EVER. (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n32a22.html)

More Chess-Playing American Numismatists
Paul Bocso writes:

I was rated as high as 1892. Charlie Adkins may have made Master (2200). The best is Sid Belzburg (Canadian but has lived in NYC), a fairly good friend of Gary Kasparov. Steve Goldstein plays the game and collects chess medals. The Marshall Chess Club, when I was a member, had some medals among its memorabilia.

Ralph Dubisch writes:

Not sure if I qualify, as I'm more of a numis-playing chessist. I'm a FIDE Master of chess, and something of a collector/investor in coins, though I am a life member of the ANA.

Eric Holcomb forwarded the E-Sylum link to me. He's a serious numismatist, club-level chess player, and businesses manager of Northwest Chess magazine, winner of the Best State Magazine award by the Chess Journalists of America in 2014 and 2015.

John Dale Beety writes:

Recently I saw myself mentioned by Pete Smith in The E-Sylum as a former junior chess champion. I'd like to offer a bit of confirmation and clarification.

I played chess more-or-less casually until high school, when I started taking it more seriously. I was a two-time Indiana State Junior Blitz Chess Champion -- in "blitz chess" one must make all moves in five minutes or less and going over usually means a loss.

I won my championships in 2001 and 2002, at ages 15 and 16, and I briefly was in the Top 20 Juniors list of the now-defunct World Blitz Chess Association. At age 17, as a college freshman, I tried a last defense of my title, but I came in third and deservedly so. That was my last chess tournament; I didn't have the time or talent to compete at the senior level and I knew it, so I retired with my happy memories of chess intact.

I've attached a photo of me at age 30, wearing the medal I earned at 16. I'm also holding a coin from the Eric P. Newman collection as a token of a more enduring hobby love.

John Dale Beety

Thanks, everyone. Chess medals! There's a topic I don't think we've ever covered. Can anyone provide images of other chess medals? -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
QUERY: CHESS-PLAYING AMERICAN NUMISMATISTS SOUGHT (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n32a14.html)

More Double Struck Buffalo Nickels
1920S_doublestruck_buffalo_uniface Saul Teichman writes:

With regard to double struck buffalo nickels like the one in the ANA sale, here are a few more and there are likely others. Error coins have always been an unappreciated area of numismatics.







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To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: AUGUST 9, 2015 : 1919 Double Struck Buffalo Nickel (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n32a09.html)

More on the American Art Museum Medal Collection

George Cuhaj submitted this note on the medal collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Thanks! -Editor

Smithsonian medals Two weeks ago you made note of the medals exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC. F and 9th St. Here is a photo I took in about 2007.

It is in the annex building across the street from the Spy museum, not in the building on the Mall. Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor., in a west corner of the 19 Century building which has a central atrium area. It is a great conversion.

The medals are mostly US late 19th and early 20c artists, and depict plasters, models and some final pieces. Of note are some of Paul Manship's plasters and models for early Military Medals as well as some of his other cast works.

The open display is packed, and the trays at the bottom are pull out, and hold many additional medals and plasters. All with limited information on the cards.

Some of the galleries are currently under renovation, says the website. So this may have all changed.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM MEDALS (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n31a20.html)



Wayne Homren, Editor

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