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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 26746932, member: 104064&quot;]Good luck figuring this one out! I went through this with the third Barber dime reverse type discovery (and others). When my article was published in BCCS journal, I was under the illusion that it would be big news worldwide. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I contacted Coin World about it, also asking where I could find what John McCloskey wrote about his obverse/reverse discoveries in 1980. The managing editor replied and said they hope to make their archives available as a subscription level &quot;in the future.&quot; That was 7 years ago. He didn&#039;t say anything about the third reverse type discovery, so I pinged him again and got no reply. I emailed the Numismatist and got no reply. </p><p><br /></p><p>I had a pleasant exchange with Mark Feld about it. &quot;My guess is that the perceived audience might be relatively small on a commercial basis and not mainstream enough.&quot; No real answer to your question though. </p><p><br /></p><p>I had an exchange with the late great David Lange via the NGC forum, asking if NGC would attribute the hub type anomalies. &quot;There would have to be some record of higher prices realized for one or other of these varieties to get any market attention&quot; - pretty much the same answer as Mr. Feld. It&#039;s the chicken-egg problem - which came first, market attention or publicizing/attributing a discovery? </p><p><br /></p><p>I was told by ANACS that it had to be published and/or listed by folks like Coneca or Wexler. Wexler never responded. James Wiles with Coneca was kind enough to reply. He said &quot;25 years ago, CONECA made the decision to let the 19th century variety files be owned and maintained by the various specialty clubs.&quot; So, in my case that&#039;s BCCS. So that left me with ANACS having to attribute based on my own article. It&#039;s been a long term goal to follow up with them about it, but &quot;the wind is out of my sails&quot; as that old expression goes. </p><p><br /></p><p>Mr. Wiles cc&#039;d Bill Fivaz with Cherrypickers Guide, who was pretty excited about it in November of 2019. I&#039;ve detailed my experience with that elsewhere. Basically I put together a bunch of text and images for inclusion in their next edition, but in January 2020 was told there wasn&#039;t space for it. More than two years later, the publisher emailed again about the dime transition varieties, wanting a whole list of stuff, most of which I had already given them. I asked if there was a deadline, and he said &quot;this week or next.&quot; You might imagine how I felt being asked to drop everything and get them stuff I already gave them 2+ years prior and then having it dropped for space. I figured I&#039;d be wasting my time again and didn&#039;t reply. Which turned out to be correct - when that next edition finally came out, the Barber dime section was gutted. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is a long-winded way of saying it&#039;s tough to get anything new past the gatekeepers. I&#039;m satisfied to just have some things published in BCCS so at least it doesn&#039;t disappear forever when I kick the bucket. I&#039;m sure there are tons of experts out there who know stuff no one else does. Many end up self-publishing I think.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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