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The Numismatical Writing Dude

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I recently won a bound edition of old TAM Journals on ebay and was reading over it last night. In the membership report for memberships as of 1964 I saw Q. David Bowers Empire Bldg 252 Main St. Johnsom City N.Y 13790. This was in issue for Oct-Dec 1964.
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David has been around a long time Longnine. I don't remember if he had started writing at that time or not.

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I'm not sure when he started writing. He was one of the 12 founders of TAMS in 1960. I think he might've still been a struggling dealer then.
I know one of his earliest writings was about coin cycles, which is interesting because TAMS aquired over a 1,000 members by 1964. There must have been an enormous interest in tokens and medals in the early 1960's. And yet the same situation existed a hundred years earlier around 1858 there was an enormous interest in tokens and medalets--(small medals). I'm sure, much to the delight of the Lovetts.
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I remember when TAMS got started. A lot of the coin clubs were issuing medal tokens to promote their yearly coin shows. This was a driving force behind the token society at the time. In the 1860's Merchant tokens were being made and used because of coin shortages during the Civil War. I blame that on the surge of collectors of that vintage. I really don't have anything to support that however. Just an opinion.

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