COIN-BUYING IN THE 1950S AND 60S

I find all sorts of newspaper clippings about coins tucked inside old coin catalogs and premium guides. This one is particularly amusing, as the owner of a Texaco station is advertising his buying prices for coins. It's not dated, but a photo of two women on the other side shows fashions of about 1963.

Here's something more I pulled off the shelf.

The United States Rare Coin Value Guide was a premium book or "prices paid" catalog that was published for many years. As is evident from the photos, this publication was a stock item with a standard cover that left room for custom printing of a dealership name. There's no publication statement inside, so I don't know who was actually behind this enterprise. It could have been Lee Hewitt, as the materials and graphics are quite similar to the self-covered reprints he produced of serial articles from his Numismatic Scrapbook Magazine.

Here are photos showing the book as it appeared during the 1950s (1804 dollar cover) and 1960s (1909-S VDB cover). The only way to date specific copies is by where the mintages for current series end.

	NBS (coinbooks.org) Web