The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 46, November 14, 2004, Article 18

THE THICKEST NUMISMATIC PERIODICALS

  J. C. Spilman writes: "I see that the thickest/thinnest
  contest is still alive and well and thought I would
  add my tuppence worth regarding The Colonial Newsletter
 (CNL) which currently requires about eight volumes for
  binding and has a total of 3096 printed pages including
  various inserts and the cumulative index. The current
  cumulative page number is 2773 but that does not include
  several issues that had their own integral page
  numbering system such as the review edition of Dr. Phil
  Mossman's book "Money . . . "  (CNL-74) which contains
  196 pages plus xii but is indexed in the cumulative
  index as a single page number 964,  and several others
  of like ilk."

  [Were we to make this a formal contest, periodicals
  would doubtless be given separate categories of their
  own, such as maximum number of pages per year and
  cumulative number of pages since inception.  In my own
  library, that award would go to the American Numismatic
  Associations" Numismatist magazine, which spans over
  eighteen shelf feet.  Worldwide there are likely several
  periodicals which best the Numismatists" cumulative
  total.  What is the longest continually published
  numismatic periodical, and the one with the most
  cumulative pages published since inception"  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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