Show WRITING UP LIP THE COINAGE OF WEST WESTI I ce President of bf American 1 I Numismatic Society Visits Salt Lake City INTERESTED COINS SAYS STUDY IS IMP IMPORTANT I BRANCH OF ARCHAEOLOGY a orner for 1St the StLouis t LouI wu w at the Mr Mr ZelDe Is Vice nee f the and is inquiries into the coinage ot of the various we tern states result of his hie nY will be embodied and aad by the society Which he e nta Mr r Zerbe wu was lit 11 charge of the at the St Louis and was vas In at the recent exposi tion In Portland He said When my work ork closed at t Portland I Went to San arriving there April rU 1 I 1 spent some time makin makIng in inquiries inquiries Into the of the territorial coInage using largely the records of the i historical society of There was wasL I IL L L erful collection and aDd ap Its entire loss bee snore more than my lf 11 It can never be replaced I refer reler I particularly to the collection Jy by the benefaction of o James Janaes Lake in 3 1 had just completed my there When the earthquake O CU By the c aY San are quite to there thue ever wa an and rd refer to the tite disaster as the fire Much Interest in Utah r I have found much of numismatic in t rest In Utah and ADd have just completed an inquiry into the coina coinage e here Due with the assistance of Elder Eider Milton Musser The Mormon coinage e was or of particular later 4 st t and I have been abIC 1 clear up a number or of thi things s that were ere n doubt The study ot of numismatics Js is not yet appreciated The public set t us down Is as coin c cranks n but I believe 3 v I as an U ant branch of BY and an the time 1 ii rot not tar far distant when it will be an study In the schools eh h by students of the science have hae h in ancient that could bf bE discovered in iii nd n other way Take the Mormon currency and coInage from Jt 11 to IMD a student could establish Jh the from tit the and in The Am American Society of Numismatics is Inc in strength very rapidly The pre president ident A It Fry ry of New York Yorka Ic a man of deep Ta addition to seventeen Ian s he be can n It 1 at a glance the history of all known cin aim nd iid Is ie by the govern as an His knowledge has te bel aqui d through h a life study Cf 1 t Ip oo rate of aU all There nr s several eral In Utah with whom 11 1 bare kept in dOH cioe touch and who ad me n AS the re representative wn n anything rare turns Viii v I am going from here to Denver Dever to lesk into hato the Pikes Peek Peak comae I ba have tOt ot been tere for several y years and apt sp advised that there are 8 some of to 1 Ii seen ten there just no Mr Zerbe spent two a n night ht h the refugee camps In F before bElore h he get to Oakland where hee ht he joined 1 te th the relief workers And has hasi i fn en jn in that work since H Is not only interested in coins hut hot hutT T rj anything lie He carried with ith j lii an ancient t English striking watch raI hundred years ears old and oj of the fral Itt chaste workmanship in beaten W Ws s almost priceless He also has bas with i five 01 old se of the col coinage e of and ll noW very rare Another r 3 k j which he pl ked up in California wu was nn ery heavy nU nugget et watch chain made 1 isi I He says that the reSults ot of hi his labors in the West Will wUl be next year ear under the 1 feS |