Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years after his death in 1939, a hit Broadway play, Lord Pengo, made fiction of his exploits. He bought and sold Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer three times, always handled, as his motto affirmed, "nothing but recognized masterpieces." His clients were equally well recognized -Mellon, Morgan, Frick, Rockefeller, Kress, Altman, Bache-and Duveen steered their taste in building superb, now mostly public collections...
...Review opens with a short biography of Miller by his student Albert J. Gelpi, providing a suitable background for the analysis which follows in other articles. In an essay on "Perry Miller and the Historians," for example, Edmund S. Morgan of Yale examines Miller's place in his chosen profession of American history. It is an excellent article, informative, reverent, and sometimes angry. Miller, Morgan insists quite correctly, never received the honors he deserved from the academic world. He acted the manners of a "stevedore" more than a professor too often for his colleagues's comfort, and he never relaxed...
...mint new silver dollars on the grounds that all its facilities should be devoted to stemming the growing shortage of small change being gobbled up by vending machines. This, plus the news that in delving into its dwindling supply of cartwheels, the Treasury had reached a supply of "Morgan" dollars in the back of its vaults, set off a major and unexpected numismatic march on Washington...
Wagons & Hampers. Morgan dollars, named for their British-born designer George T. Morgan, were minted between 1878 and 1921. The collector's-item Morgans range from an 1878 minted at Carson City, which sells for about $10, to the 1893 San Francisco, currently worth...
When the two-hour period was up each day, those still waiting had to be dispersed by guards; the lucky ones hauled their 60-lb. sacks of cartwheels off to root through them for valuable Morgans. How many-if any-of them turned up is still unknown. But after all, the collectors couldn't lose-even if there was not a Morgan or other rarity in the lot. All they had to do was turn their bag in to the nearest bank and get their handy paper money back. And this, to the Treasury's distress, was just...