[The following excerpt is published courtesy of DLRC Press and its author, Gloria Peters & Cynthia Mohon. This information was originally published in 1995 in The Complete Guide to Shield and Liberty Head Nickels
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Acknowledgements
Our special thanks go to…
The professionals and collectors who made this book become a reality through encouragement as well as suggestions, information, lending coins for photographs, and supplying photographs.
Several professional numismatists who shared information on rarity and pointed us in the right direction; and those who lent a special coin from inventory to be photographed.
American Numismatic Association for its library and reference volumes.
Ken Bressett, who provided important contacts, expressed interest and gave encouragement in writing this book from the beginning. Ken also wrote the Foreword for this book.
Larry Briggs for his supportive words and very generous offerings of varieties, oddities and counterfeits to be photographed.
Q. David Bowers, Bowers and Merena, for providing a photograph of the 1868 Aluminum Proof Set recently auctioned by their company.
Lynn Chen, the supreme librarian at ANA, who provided the reference material we needed.
David Feigenbaum for a collection of Shield nickels containing several varieties in addition to being our publisher.
John Feigenbaum, the consummate computer expert.
Joe Haney, his collection of Liberty Head varieties made this section more complete.
Alan Herbert, for an interview — it was a pleasure to gain his viewpoint on minting practices.
Bob Julian for new information on these series and insight on mint official shenanigans. Although we haven’t met Bob in person, we are looking forward to it.
Susan Kono who searched her personal files and the files of Superior Stamp & Coin/A-Mark to find photos of the 1913 Hydeman coin.
Ken Krah through an interview provided NGC grading guidelines for these two series.
David Lange for advice & authorship mentoring and for alerting us to an article he had written on the 1912-S Liberty Head.
Ed Metzger, Western Publishing Company, provided the impressive assortment of Judd pattern photos we requested.
Rick Montgomery through interviews provided PCGS grading guidelines for the Shield and Liberty Head nickels. Also diagnostic steps graders use for authenticating proof coinage for these two series.
Tom Mulvaney, expert photographer, who took most of the pictures that appear in this book and provided others from his files.
Eric P. Newman who took time from his busy schedule to meet with Cindy in St. Louis. A special person who shared his knowledge and opened his files for our research on the 1913 nickels. He provided most of the material for this important segment and was liberal in scholarly encouragement.
Del Romines for expertise in metallurgy, toning, and probable original racketeer nickel manufacturing methods. J & D Coins, Tucker, GA.
Elvira Clain-Stephanelli for providing documentation related to the Norweb 1913 nickel donation to the Smithsonian. Smithsonian Institution personnel who photographed the Norweb 1913 nickel for our book.
Norm Talbert for his encouragement, suggestions, personal variety collection and review of our circulated rarity chart.
Weimar White for correspondence on toning.