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Excerpt from The Numismatic Directory, for 1881: Containing the Names and Addresses of Collectors of United States, Confederate States, Colonial and Foreign Coins, Medals, Tokens, Badges, Metal Cards, Etc. Including Paper Money, Bonds and Scrip; Also a List of Numismatic Societies, Authors, Publications In presenting the Numismatic Directory to the fraternity, we expect 'and court criticism from the many more learned in the science, as we desire for the future to make it indispensable to all. We have not been able to present as large a publication as an tici pated, owing to the limited time we had for compiling the work, as well as obtaining the names of all foreign Numismatic societies, mints and collectors, while many familiar names are left out by request, as well as those of amateurs and others that are not reliable. We hepe, however, that Our next edition will be worthy of special notice, and give better satisfaction than the present, and While a few monopolists may consider the Directory detrimental to their interests, we hope that with the majority it will {meet with favor, have a tendency to equalize trade as well as prices; create a greater interest, enlarge business and be a mutual benefit to all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.