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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gunsmoke, post: 168395, member: 6896&quot;]<b>A Bittersweet Triumph</b></p><p><br /></p><p>COINS Magazine publishes only factual articles, but many decades ago, it would run one piece of fiction each month along with 12 to 14 articles. In 1966 I was a young man learning how to write and trying to get published.&nbsp; I had sent manuscripts to magazines and gotten them all back with rejection slips. </p><p><br /></p><p>I had also become an enthisiastic coin collector and I was struck by an idea for a story on that topic. It was pure inspiration, like a bolt of lightning. I wrote the story, sent it off to COINS, and after about six weeks received a letter of acceptance and a modest check. I was going to be published in COINS magazine! </p><p><br /></p><p>And a couple of months later, I was--there was my byline for anybody to see. But the viewing of my first byline in a magazine was kind of bittersweet because about a month before the story came out, I got a job as a newspaper reporter, and by the time the story appeared, I had already had about 30 bylines in the paper. Of course they were bylines on news stories that to me lacked the prestige of fiction, but still, there was my name in print. I was a professional writer--and a numismatist.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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