"Regarding Pete Smith's mention of numismatic writers who were murdered, I would add Sarah Elizabeth Freeman, who wrote Medals Relating to Medicine and Allied Sciences in the Numismatic Collection of the Johns Hopkins University, published in 1964. She died of starvation after being locked in a closet by burglars. The news article can be found here https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/03/23/Three-men-charged-in-curators-starvation-death/2185511938000/

"This is the link to her papers at Johns Hopkins Libraries, which notes her work on coins and medals, incuding research on Charles Cushing Wright. https://aspace.library.jhu.edu/repositories/5/resources/1205"

So sad. Thank you. -Editor

"Regarding the fractional currency bricks - that's the first good thing to come out of a fruitcake box!"

"The Eliasberg coin is not the finest of the 1853-o no arrows half dollar. The finest was the Garrett coin.

"All 4 known examples are imaged by me on the Newman portal at the link below. https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/648390"

Thank you. -Editor

I have studied auction appearances of Carson City Trade dollars in Heritage and Stack's Bowers auction lots, and created tables of die varieties, one table each for the 1873-CC through 1878-CC.

When I began this effort some three years ago, I didn't realize that I was duplicating the efforts of Joe Kirchgessner and John B. Coxe, who have already published references on die varieties of the Trade dollar series. Nonetheless, I have encountered a number of die marriages not in those references, and I hope the tables will be of use to researchers and specialists.

The tables can be found at https://filmsgraded.com/cctrade. The first column in the tables is a link to an auction lot for each die variety. The tables map each variety to its Kirchgessner and Coxe counterparts. The HA prefix is an abbreviation for Heritage Auctions. Please report any corrections, additions, improvements, etc. to briankoller@yahoo.com.

Thank you. -Editor