"Here is all we know: Catalog cards show these medals were issued in both bronze and gold. Quantities are unknown. MACO records no longer exist."

"The John Lupia biography of Mrs. Frances Marshall was quite a pleasant surprise to me. Thank you John!! I and others like myself that are interested in the early period of numismatics in America learned a lot of facts about Mrs. Marshall that we did not know before. She was a real trail-blazer of women in numismatics, being the first woman that I know of mentioned in the same breath with coin collecting. Thank you again John."

"Dorothy Baber voted in the 2020 election. Nothing remarkable about that, right? Well, when she was born on May 10, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution had not yet passed and women did not have the right to vote. That amendment was not passed until August 18, 1920. Thus, her life spans the entire century that women have enjoyed that right to vote.

Dorothy’s accomplishments in numismatics are many. She served as President of the California State Numismatic Association, the California Exonumist Society, the Token and Medal Society and the Heartland Coin Club. Among the many honors she received, she was awarded the Farran Zerbe Memorial Award from the ANA in 1995 when she was only 75."

"I did attend PAN, though only as a buyer and for a very short while. We don't typically take a table at that show. I arrived a little before 3pm on Wednesday to a very different layout than for a typical PAN show, which has been held in the smaller, carpeted room to the right of the loading dock entrance. This time, the show was held in the larger, more convention hall-like room, located straight ahead. There was paperwork to fill out (for contract-tracing, should that need arise) specific health questions to answer, and temperature to be checked. All of that extra went without a hitch, and I wrote PAN a check for my "early-bird" admission, and off on the hunt I went.

The aisles were very wide, and everyone I saw followed the mask and spacing requirements. I felt comfortable that proper precautions were in place and being taken seriously by those in attendance. Though the dealer group setting up was a little thin, it is always that way on a Wednesday afternoon set-up. Quite a few of the dealers try to keep their expenses in check by cutting out a night on the road, thus they arrive Thursday morning. But, there were more than enough dealers there to keep me busy. For my purposes - to buy great coins that appeal to me and I think will appeal to my customers - the show was a ringing success, even though my visit was only 4 hours long. There were more coins to be found, in another state, at another show! I was off to the South Carolina Numismatic Association's show in Greenville."

"Apropos the 1974 cent shortage, back in the Spring of that year Margo Russell at Coin World had heeded Mary Brooks' call for people to turn in their cents by browbeating everybody at Amos Press to bring in their dresser drawer cent hoards and dump them into a large jar in the Coin World office. After somewhere between $50 and $100 worth had been accumulated, the two youngest staff members, Dawn Billings and myself, were drafted to schlep this boodle across Sidney's Courthouse Square to the Citizens Baughman National Bank. There, as a staff photographer recorded the event for posterity, we deposited the cents into what I assume was Margo's account. I also assume that she eventually got the participation certificate."

"Newcomer had an Ultra high relief and had a complete set of the gold stellas. They appear in his pattern inventory."