Q David Bowers....

There are certain names in our hobby that will always draw a certain respect/admiration...Eliasburg--Reiver--and David Bowers is among those.

Today I received in the mail a free copy of Q David Bowers latest book on Lincoln Cents--along with a nice personalized inscription and signature. The reason he sent this to me was because in the last issue of The Numismatic Sun's trivia question section there was a wrong answer. I happened to catch it and sent a polite email asking "isn't the correct answer???"

I received an very friendly email directly from Mr Bowers that informed me that I was indeed correct.

Not expecting anything more than maybe a mention in the next issue of the magazine, maybe a "thanks to alert reader/subscriber Jackson M. for pointing out the correct answer to last months trivia was actually...."...but instead today I received this nice gesture.

This is not the first nice gesture he has done for me either...while he was writing his book on shield nickels I found out that he was accepting contributions/info. I submitted a few pages on the 1866 with rays proof variety...although it was never used in the book, I still received a free personalized and autographed copy when it was released...

It is always nice to know that in a hobby where there can be a bit of snobbery by some ( not popular to say but true nonetheless) that a giant in our hobby can be so nice and genuine.

As my first journal entry of 2008...I want to wish all of my friends and fellow collectors here at the registry a wonderful year enjoying the hobby we love.....

I just got back 9 new sailing ship themed coins for my set...here's one of them, a dollar sized coin from Portugal with some nice golden rim toning and a chinese junk on it ( the coin is a tribute to the Portuguese involvement in Macau)