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half of Fort Worth's incoming mail, leading the post office to put additional trucks on the
Magnolia Avenue route. Despite his extensive dealings in coins, the 1929 article disclosed he did not himself collect them, feeling that he could not both collect and deal in coins; instead, he collected autographs. Both his auctions and his fixed-price coin sales were by mail-order only; if a prospective buyer showed up in Fort Worth, Mehl would discuss a purchase and even take the person to dinner, but would insist his guest return home and write to complete the purchase, stating he did not want anyone to feel under pressure to buy. From 1924 to 1926, Mehl served on the ANA's board of governors.
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Depression, the Fort Worth, Tex., dealer B. Max Mehl carried on a years-long newspaper advertising campaign (which he later admitted had cost him over a million 1930s dollars!), offering to buy for $ 50 apiece any 1913 Liberty head nickels offered. This offer was not bona-fide, being
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By the 1950s, Mehl's numismatic activities were diminishing. After the Kern collection in 1950 (which he styled his "Golden
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According to Bowers, "in the decade of the 1940s, Mehl reached his glory." Mehl had 116 auction sales, all conducted by mail, between 1903 and 1955; those after 1940 included some that Bowers described as "awesome and incredible". Never a researcher, Mehl made exaggerations or errors in his catalogs
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failed to sell many coins to the public at the original issue price of $ 3, Mehl purchased about 10,000 (half the extant mintage) at just over face value, selling them to the public at less than the issue price well into the 1920s. Mehl similarly acquired (from Zerbe, the coin's promoter) thousands
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of the coin that could be resold to the public at high prices. The Mint refused, but did agree to strike more of the original coins, few of which were made available to the public, but were sold by Mehl at a premium above the issue price. In
January 1936, with prices still rising for commemorative
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was rendered as a "b". This book, published by
Alexander & Co. of Boston, was widely-sold, and coin dealers could order copies imprinted with their name and address for sale to the public for a small fee. Mehl did so, and sent out copies advertising himself, seeking to promote his business. In
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In his advertisements, Mehl urged collectors to sign up for his "Mehl-ing list". According to a 1929 article on Mehl, he was among the top five recipients of mail in Fort Worth, and during the busier part of the year, ranked second or third, though another source states he accounted for more than
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advocate for coin collecting, using newspaper and magazine ads and radio programs to spread the word." Mehl was inducted into the ANA's
Numismatic Hall of Fame in 1974, and, in 2010, was part of the six-member inaugural grouping inducted into the CoinFacts Dealer Hall of Fame, established by the
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Bowers described Mehl as "America's most famous rare coin dealer of the first half of the 20th century ... was a promoter of coins and arguably did more to advance the hobby than any other individual of his time". According to numismatist Pete Smith, "Mehl is remembered as one of the great
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William Forrester Dunham Sale (1941), Fred E. Olsen (1944, containing the first 1913 Liberty Head nickel Mehl ever handled, despite his advertisements), and the duplicates from the King Farouk collection (1947). The Dunham collection included an 1804 dollar and
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Southward wrote in a 2004 article on Mehl that the dealer "achiev the status of hobby icon during the 1920s and '30s, he received numerous accolades, from the ANA and others, as he spent many thousands of dollars promoting the hobby. He was credited with being a tremendous
576:, hobbies prospered, including coin collecting. Mehl greatly expanded his campaign to sell coin books to the American public, who were receptive, liking the idea of finding a rare coin in those difficult times that might solve one's financial worries. Mehl purchased full-page advertisements in
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commented on Mehl's youth. Mehl also visited Boston and
Philadelphia. In July 1906, he wrote to his customers that he was now a full-time coin dealer, something that likely came as a surprise to many of them, who assumed that he had long been one. According to Bowers, "by 1910, his innovative
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Lithuania. They had two daughters, Lorraine and Danna.
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of numismatics". Tom LaMarre wrote, "Mehl sold more than coins, he sold an image. Ads featured the Mehl building, Mehl standing in front of his luxurious home, or other scenes intended to depict the dealer as a coin tycoon." Charles D. Horning wrote in 1995, "Mehl was truly a phenomenal
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dealers and promoters for the hobby." Daniel C. Parker called Mehl "the father of modern coin collecting ... he more than anyone before or since that time popularized our hobby. He brought it out of the affluent man's domain and made it a hobby for all ages and economic strata."
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of antique coins. Located at 1200 W. Magnolia Avenue, the building was the working place of Mehl and 40 employees (an increase from 10 in 1912) who dealt with correspondence and orders from a subscription list of 70,000 customers. In the years to come, these would include
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and continued it. In 1912, Mehl moved to New York to join fellow dealer Wayte Raymond in a partnership. Mehl was concerned about his relative isolation in Texas from the rest of the numismatic world. However, after only a few weeks, Mehl returned to Fort Worth, writing in
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and sold them to his customers. In late 1919, Mehl stated that he had an advertising budget of $ 5,000 per year, and he continued to advertise in non-numismatic publications, spending $ 200 (equivalent to $ 3,515 in 2023) on a single insertion of an advertisement in
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After Mehl's death, his executive secretary of over 40 years' service, Mary Ellen Ferguson, kept the firm going until her own death in 1961. Thereafter, Kosoff, who managed Mehl's numismatic estate, offered the trade name for sale for $ 25,000. Kenneth Nichols of
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coins (the bubble burst near the end of the year), Mehl published an advertisement urging collectors to "BUY NOW—Potential $ 10 and $ 20 coins for a fraction of their near-future value!" In 1937, Mehl published a booklet on commemorative coins.
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for $ 50, though he knew there were none in circulation to be found. This got the public to search through their pocket change looking for rare coins that Mehl might buy, and greatly increased sales of Mehl's coin books, adding to his profit.
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magazine, at an expense of $ 12.50. This proved successful as an advertising strategy, helping to transform coin collecting, once a niche hobby for the wealthy and for students of art and archeology, into a pastime for the masses.
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Seeking greater opportunities, in 1895 the Mehl family, including Benjamin, immigrated to the United States, arriving there in April of that year. They initially lived in New York, and settled for a time in
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as a "well illustrated sixty-four page pamphlet giving prices he pays for coins, particularly the American series, and much other valuable information". Beginning in 1908, Mehl published the more thorough
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and had his own nationwide radio program, stating in 1933 that he had spent more than $ 50,000 (equivalent to $ 1,176,864 in 2023) to advertise on more than 50 radio stations. A 1931 advertisement in
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Many of his great auction sales took place in the 1940s, but by the following decade, he was becoming less active, and he died in 1957; his business continued into the 1960s. Mehl was elected to the
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were everyday pocket change. During his career, Mehl sold six 1804 dollars, selling two of the six twice. Similarly, Mehl boasted of spending a million dollars advertising in vain to buy a
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that serious illness in his family had required his return, and personal matters then obliged him to remain. He stated that he had re-established himself on as large a scale as before.
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In 1906, Mehl came east for the first time, visiting New York and the coin business of Lyman H. Low for his first coin auction, where he proved an active participant. Numismatist
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brought in 9,800 book orders during the first week. Catering to both beginning and advanced collectors, Mehl worked for years to get the noted numismatist,
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self-promoter." Parker stated, "Mehl had a fantastic knowledge of human nature. Had he come along 40 or 50 years later, he would have made a fortune on
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and think it is the best publication of its kind." In October 1903, that journal reported a change of address for Mehl to Box 24,
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a run for its money and in many aspects was more interestingly edited". When Heath, the editor of
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advertising and colorful personality projected him to the first rank of dealers."
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The Star Coin Book: An Encyclopedia of Rare American and Foreign Coins
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Commemorative Coins of the United States: A Complete Encyclopedia
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125 Years of Collecting With the American Numismatic Association
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Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins
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1589:Heath, George F. (September 1906).
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1683:"The Dean of American Numismatics"
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1632:"B. Max Mehl: The 1913 Nickel Man"
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373:The Star Rare Coin Encyclopedia
290:American Numismatic Association
178:American Numismatic Association
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1827:"A Jaunt Across the Continent"
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1576:Heath, George F. (June 1903).
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1888:People from Fort Worth, Texas
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1606:"The Armand Champa Library"
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1467:"A Visit with B. Max Mehl"
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1670:"A Texas Master of Coins"
1525:Bowers, Q. David (2016).
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590:The Saturday Evening Post
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217:Numismatic Hall of Fame
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675:Chamber of Commerce
584:The American Weekly
547:1894-S Barber dimes
399:Fort Worth Telegram
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1774:Handbook of Texas
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471:Winston Churchill
364:The Hub Coin Book
351:The Hub Coin Book
266:before moving to
189:Winston Churchill
174:Fort Worth, Texas
164:Mehl was born in
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336:Q. David Bowers
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1360:Kosoff 1957
1306:Bowers 1992
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1262:Bowers 1983
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921:Weiner 2021
731:P.T. Barnum
669:and of the
667:Rotary Club
648:Jerome Kern
539:1804 dollar
475:King Farouk
462:bas-reliefs
382:Mehl ad in
344:consignment
281:bar mitzvah
235:within the
205:King Farouk
201:Jerome Kern
155:B. Max Mehl
131:Ethel Rosen
121:Coin dealer
110:Nationality
42: 1950
25:B. Max Mehl
1842:Categories
1833:: 261–277.
1702:: 407–409.
1676:: 176–188.
1599:: 300–302.
1584:: 182–183.
1568:Coin World
1408:Guren 1979
1125:Smith 1997
1062:Smith 1997
1035:Zerbe 1906
1008:Heath 1906
996:Smith 2016
948:Heath 1903
873:March 1906
784:References
741:Coin World
644:half eagle
477:of Egypt.
310:Page from
268:Fort Worth
223:Early life
118:Occupation
59:1884-11-05
618:varieties
405:Collier's
385:Collier's
272:synagogue
256:Lithuania
1778:Archived
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1507:: 81–82.
1473:: 12–14.
772:date or
113:American
1813:July 3,
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1659:July 3,
1541:July 4,
1430:Sources
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602:stocks
388:, 1908
252:Kaunas
241:Jewish
126:Spouse
96:, U.S.
824:Lupia
756:Notes
278:as a
245:flour
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229:Łódź
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