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The E-Sylum: Volume 29, Number 22, 2026, Article 11

VIDEO: JOHN HIGHFILL, PART 3 OF 3

The David Lisot Video Library on the Newman Numismatic Portal can be found at:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/multimediadetail/522852

We highlight one of his videos each week in The E-Sylum. Here's one from 2016 with David interviewing National Silver Dollar Roundtable founder John Highfill. -Editor

  John Highfill

John Highfill talks about how he started in coins and became known for silver dollars. He tells stories about your coin business and dealers Mike Bob and Martin Paul, his involvement in the Carson City coin market, the story about the first modern coin grade MS70 by PCGS, David Hall and the Elvis Presley jacket, the story of the $50 Humbert, stories about the National Silver Dollar Roundtable Banquets, Harlan White's $500 bill story, Leon Hendrickson and the Continental-Illinois silver dollar bag deal out of Chicago that broke at NSDR Convention in 1982, how he wrote the Silver Dollar Encyclopedia, VAM Silver Dollars and Leroy Van Allen, his biggest silver dollar deal, and the biggest check he took that bounced. John concludes with some thoughts about his life.

Featuring John Wayne Highfill, Founder, National Silver Dollar Roundtable, David Lisot, Interviewer, CoinTelevision.com. Publication date 2016.

  

To watch the complete video, see:
Numismatic Personality: John Highfill, King of Silver Dollars (part 3 of 3) (https://youtu.be/oQndkNIxr0w)
Numismatic Personality: John Highfill, King of Silver Dollars (part 3 of 3) (https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/595531)

To read the earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
VIDEO: JOHN HIGHFILL, PART 1 OF 3 (https://www.coinbooks.org/v29/esylum_v29n20a08.html)
VIDEO: JOHN HIGHFILL, PART 2 OF 3 (https://www.coinbooks.org/v29/esylum_v29n21a07.html)

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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