Quote:BULLETIN: I am pleased to announce that the Wexler Files for mint mark varieties has a new attributer. Quite a few years ago (the late 1990's) the Wexler Files started to become too large for a single person to manage and I recruited three other people to help with various parts of the files. NCADD President John Bordner took on the task of attributing and maintaining the Wexler RPM and OMM Files. Late in 2012 Mr. Bordner was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and had to cease doing the RPM/OMM attributions. He passed away in January of 2013 while still in possession of those files.
Tom Kalantzis, a friend of Mr. Bordner, was instrumental in obtaining those files and was anxious to take on the job of being the new RPM attributer. It was quickly discovered that there were huge gaps in the files. The problem was that whenever Mr. Bordner was able to obtain a specimen of a new RPM for his personal collection he did not write up the variety or shoot the necessary photos. He did subsequent attributions by coin-to-coin comparisons. Mr. Kalantzis purchased the bulk of Mr. Bordner's collection so as not to lose the coins needed to maintain the files and set about writing up file cards and shooting photos for those varieties Mr. Bordner failed to do.
Mr. Kalantzis worked his way through the
Lincoln Cent RPMs making it all the way from 1909 through 1950-D and then tragedy struck. Mr. Kalantzis passed away suddenly and without warning in April of 2016. I am pleased to announce that a young doctor named Daniel Griffin purchased the RPM coins and files from the Kalantzis family and he has been working feverishly to get the files in shape so that he is now able to start doing the RPM attributions. See the attribution guidelines for his contact information.
Posted 01/04/2021 4:52 pm
