"I was deeply touched by the story of Michael, who found the Purple Heart. I am so glad to see young people honoring our warriors. He clearly has a mind for business, but his heart is in the right place."

Agreed! -Editor

Sorry for the delay - this was sent in by a reader and got trapped in my inbox for a couple weeks. -Editor

"I knew Martin fairly well. I once drove him to LAX for a flight home. He was unusually soft spoken and reserved in manner.

"I was offered his 1794 dollar (raw at the time) at a 1970's ANA for $375,000 by dealer Ed Milas and coin partner / very reluctant seller Texas collector Marvin Browder. I believe Andy Lustig acquired it at that show. At that time it was not yet realized as having a center silver plug.

"The later Stacks auction at $10M to Laura Sperber was controversial as it was telephonically advanced in one fell swoop from underbidder Mack Pogue (the father) sitting in the auction room front to Legend / Sperber bidding on the phone for a client at auction room rear from $8M to $10M, allegedly only because Legend wanted it to be the first $10M coin! The entire incident was captured live on video and much discussed in the aftermath.

"It is said that Martin/"Cardinal Foundation" financed the $7.5M purchase of the 1794 dollar and never actually took physical possession of the coin.

"As a CPA, Martin arranged with the late large cent collector Walter Husak to create a foundation to minimize taxes by arranging educational exhibits of Walt's large cents, many being ex. Lord St Oswald coins from the 1964 London auction."

"Regarding Philip Mernick's query about Numismatics International. Yes it is still going. It would appear that with the death a few years ago of the person responsible for the website it has proved difficult to access it. I am not fully conversant with the website problem, but the hard copy is still issued every two months."

That's great to hear - thank you! Above is an image of the March/April 2026 issue Eric provided. -Editor

I would like to thank so much to Bill Groom for his comments that I share 100%. Also, I'd like to add the following:

a) I could find only one reference to a Schedler person (1) appearing in the National Digital Newspapers Archive of Mexico (Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de México).

b) I didn't find any indexed references to any Schedler man in the "Family Search" genealogical website for Mexico. So, I could deduce it was not a person living in Mexico.

c) I wish another different host coin could appear with this counterstamp (Ed Schedler) with additional information in the short term.

Note:
(1) Divorce proceedings initiated by Mrs. Ruth Spencer Schedler against Mr. Edmund W. Schedler in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. "Periódico Oficial del Estado de Chihuahua" newspaper, 07 September 1940, page 19. Ciudad Juárez is a sister city of El Paso, Texas since 2002.

I am selling for the benefit of the Iola Historical Society several discs of Stack's catalog images which were gathered from their former printer Cosmos Communications.

Some of these sales are Ford Sales. Also, some 35mm B&W negatives. Kurt Krueger's 1904 St Louis World's Fair catalog #358425483232. and Texas or Alaska US Tokens, and one canister labeled Chet's Hard Times Tokens.

I have several other similar groups of negatives to list this week. Auctions start ending next Wednesday, seller name Cuhaj, for 100% benefit of the Iola Historical Society.

Kavan Ratnatunga passed along this editorial cartoon. -Editor