Week # 97 - Who is the winner among us?

[Danielle C.]

QUESTION: Name two heirs to two different railroad fortunes who became benefactors to numismatic museums.

 

First post with the correct answer wins a January Census Report.

 

Don't forget, we also draw for a runner-up prize from all remaining posts with a correct answer.

 

Good Luck!

 

 

 

REMINDER: The Numisma-Quest ends/ended on Saturday at midnight EST. Entries after that time will not be valid. See the Trivia Info post for more details.

 

 

When you post your answer, only the administrators can see it. Stop back each Monday. We will make all the posts visible and announce the winners.

 

 

 

 

[spy88]

Complete guesses!!

 

Fitzwilliam and Ogden

[reid1836]

louis eliasberg jr. and harry w. bass jr.

[jonathanb-migration]

Archer Huntington -- ANS museum

JP Morgan -- also ANS, but originally American Museum of Natural History

[jonathanb-migration]

. The originator of the Garrett collection was an owner of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and that collection was first loaned to Princeton University and then donated to Johns Hopkins. I assume both of those universities had museums that housed the coins, although I don't know of they were specifically "numismatic museums".

 

If you don't like JP Morgan since he made his own fortune and wasn't an "heir", how about Garret to go with Archer Huntington?

[chinook]

Garett and Huntington

[RobertB]

Archer Huntington and John Garrett?

[Danielle C.]

QUESTION: Name two heirs to two different railroad fortunes who became benefactors to numismatic museums.

 

ANSWER: Archer M. Huntington (the ANS) and John Work Garrett (Johns Hopkins University).

 

The winner is: Jonathanb!! Your prize is the newly printed January Census Report.

 

The runner up winner is: RobertB!! Your prize is a display box.

 

Congratulations and thanks for playing!!

 

 

 

 

[RobertB]

Cool! Thanks!!!

 

Rob