Reader’s Fake Coin Bears Interesting History
Editor’s Note: For nearly 60 years, the feature-rich pages of Coins magazine, Numismatic News’ venerable sister publication, have tracked the history, fun and the growth of this great hobby, while also attracting new collectors to pursue what was once deemed the “hobby of kings.” Dusting off these time-aged issues, from the early 1960s and beyond, each installment of “Past Times with Coins,” written by its former longtime editor, explores what nuggets of interest they contain.
Early issues of Coins magazine were replete with readers’ questions about coins they owned.
“I recently started to collect coins, mostly Canadian half dollars,” wrote a Fine View, N.Y., collector in the November 1962 issue. “I found some mercury in the place where I work and put it on some of my coins.
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