The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 23, June 10, 2007, Article 20

GAPS IN NUMISMATIC PERIODICAL HOLDINGS

Regarding John Meissner's comments on gaps in institutional holdings 
of numismatic periodicals, Michael Schmidt writes: "I can't speak 
for Numismatic News, but completing a set of Coin World should not 
be a problem. Several years ago I was checking into the possibility 
of acquiring some back years of Coin World and I contacted the company 
that does the microfilming of Coin World. They informed me that they 
have available all of the past years of Coin World on microfilm and 
most of them on microfiche. They are somewhat costly, but they are 
available."

John Meissner writes: "This is great news about a complete run of 
"Coin World" being on microfilm. The ANA has about a seven year 
gap from 1992 to 1999. 

As far as the 9 November 1964 "Numismatic News", the entire issue is 
absent from the 1964 microfilm reel. The ANA doesn't keep hard copies 
this far back; the ANS does but they are missing the 9 November 1964 
issue. Both libraries have the identical microfilm which is missing 
this entire issue. The Numismatic News headquarters in Iola, Wisconsin 
has a bound 1964 volume in their library, essentially intact except 
that the 9 November 1964 issue is missing multiple pages.

"The microfilmed issues of Numismatic News seem to be the publisher's 
master copies. Some handwritten notes which appear on certain issues 
in their bound volumes are clearly shown on the microfilm. Numerous 
pages are missing from the issue from 9 November 1964 in the bound 
volume I was shown, and this is probably why those pages weren't 
microfilmed."

Joe Boling writes: "The ANA should have a complete run of Bank Note 
Reporter, because I donated it to them in 2001, and every 2-3 years 
I have added the subsequent issues. I hope that they have bound them 
or in some other way ensured that they will be available for research. 
For instance, in the 1970s C.M. Nielsen wrote a long series of articles 
on Philippine guerrilla notes that I believe is still the most 
comprehensive treatment of those issues."

"If anyone needs to find something in the IBNS Journal, I have a 
complete run of that title."

RESEARCHER NOTES GAPS IN INSTITUTIONAL NUMISMATIC PERIODICAL HOLDINGS
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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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