WEEK # 328 And the question is.......

[LISA B]

 

Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in 1929. Which other person named Martin Luther made a numismatic breakthrough that same year?

 

Our first place winner will receive David W. Langes "The Complete Guide to Buffalo Nickels Third Addition” signed by David W. Lange. There will also be a runner up prize given to a randomly selected player with the correct answer.

 

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[dan8402]

Martin Luther Beistle published "A register of half dollar die varieties and sub-varieties" in 1929.

[BigBob]

Martin Luther Beistle

Author A register of half dollar die varieties and sub-varieties;

being a description of each die variety used in the coinage of U.S. half dollars as far as the issues are known, covering the U.S. mint at Philadelphia, and branches at New Orleans, San Francisco, Carson City & Denver.

[BankNote1]

Made the first coin boards???

[Backdraft237]

Martin Luther Beistle invinted the slide type albums to store coins in, in 1929

[123cents]

Martin Luther Beistle.

[bsshog40]

The American numismatist was M.L. Beistle. His full name

was Martin Luther Beistle. His book, of course, was "The

Register of Half Dollar Die Varieties and Sub-Varieties."

Beistle's firm published his book in 1929, based on his

own half dollar collection.

[Coindude]

Martin Luther Beistle, author of the 1929 reference, A Registry of Half Dollar Varieties and Sub-Varieties.

[mhardin2413]

Martin Luther Beistle, of coin board fame, such as it is.

[rrantique]

Martin Luther Beistle was awarded U.S. patent

number 1,719,962 for the Unique brand coin album. This patent was

later sold to Wayte Raymond, who marketed these albums through Scott

Stamp and Coin Company as the National brand.

[just-john]

Beistle, Martin Luther. A register of half dollar die varieties and sub-varieties; being a description of each die variety used in the coinage of U.S. half dollars as far as the issues are known, covering the U.S. mint at Philadelphia, and branches at New Orleans, San Francisco, Carson City & Denver.

[TD Henson]

I believe the answer you are looking for is Martin Luther Beistle or M. L. Beistle from Shippensburg, PA.

 

Mr. Beistle invented the slide type coin album in 1929 marketed by Wayte Raymond.

 

Mr. Beistle also published his "Register of Half Dollar Varieties and Sub-Varieties" in 1929.

[DC Dawg]

Martin Luther Beistle published a reference on Liberty Seated coins.

 

Scott

[LISA B]

Sorry that this wasn't posted yesterday......

 

Question:

 

Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in 1929. Which other person named Martin Luther made a numismatic breakthrough that same year?

 

Answer:

 

Martin Luther Beistle patented the first coin album under the Unique brand, and he published the first comprehensive study of United States half dollars.

 

Our first place winner Dan8402 will receive David W. Langes "The Complete Guide to Buffalo Nickels Third Addition” signed by David W. Lange. Our runner up prize will be given to TDHenson.

 

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