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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 8263034, member: 42773&quot;]Those catalogs were very popular in their day because they appealed to peoples&#039; treasure-hunting instincts. Sometimes Mehl made more money selling catalogs than coins. Abe Kosoff called him the P. T. Barnum of numismatics. The ad for the 1913 V nickel is a case in point - he spent untold thousands running those ads even though he knew all five examples were accounted for. But he kept the spotlight on coins, and specifically his dealership.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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