I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!. Now get ready for sandwiches!! Last October I had a member telling me to submit an article to the Numismatist. I kept saying no. Well he was very persistent. So he told me what I had to do and I sent it in. It took Mr. Caleb the editor of the magazine to email me one day. He informed me the article was very good and they wanted my permission to to print it!. He asked if I wanted to get paid or donate the money. I donated it to the yngs. This blog is different than other. It tells collector's what they should do to get published. It can help. And  ask me questions!!

        I was schocked. They were going to publish my article! I had pictures to take. So my friend Mokie  said Gary (coinsbygary) was a professional photographer. Now I had to send him the five tokens. I was a wreck mailing these. They are one of a kind part of Peter Kempsons  Tokens of Coventry. I would not be able to get another of each. They came back I was so relieved. Gary Herman did a fantastic job. Remember these are from 1797. 

 

        ...Mr.  Caleb also told me when the article would be published. Next December!!! I said to myself this is all wrong. They won't remember next December.? Well October I received a text from his assistant she wanted to go over the final edit.! Its going to be published!!. They had the pictures asked some questions about George Frederick Handel. Did I have a map of Coventry. I did from the time they were built. They used a modern map.

         They changed a few words around and it was done. They sent an  email with the article. I said I didn't do all this. There team did a wonderfull job. I was so impressed.  I want to thank my friends Mokie for giving me a little push almost of the mountain. He knew what to do  because he has been published before.
        What can I say about Gary. His talent for taking pictures made the article. These two friends I will always remember. You need pictures done he is the one to go to. They asked who took the pictures I told him. I wanted his name in it but they wouldn't do it. After reading the hard copy Gary's name is there he deserves it.

    ....Im proud that I was published again. The first time was in the Clarion a magazine that the P.A.N. group puts out. I received it in the mail and I'm looking at the cover it was about the article. I wrote this to let you all know you can be published also. But you will never know till you try!! I have recommended some based on there blogs they write and to submit one. No they won't print it. No they won't  if you think like that. Ask friends for help. You will be surprised. 

       So I wrote this to thank my friends who helped me anytime I had a question. Thank you Gary. And Mr Caleb and his staff. And the ANA. I have been trying for years. But because Mokie  kept pushing i did it. Yes I'm proud. We are here to share our knowledge of coins. What better way then to share it with maybe a few hundred people. Because of this article I received a text from the President of the American Condor Association I'm not even sure if that's the name. He offered me a full year free in his group.

        So this magazine reaches allot of people. That's why you should write one. You will have to wait but good things happen to those who wait!  Thank you all. Please read the article. The ANA made an old man happy. Im sending a few to my home in Ireland. I don't think they will appreciate me collecting British tokens!!
                So write an article! Send it in. They can say yes or no. If they say no write another . As I said five Years  never give up. That's in the NGC registry. Thank you all. Because your friends will help. Like longstrider who encouraged me to write. Thank you. 

  P.S I just noticed that the Clarion was printed when I sent my article to the ANA!!      Note Gary did get his name on every page with pictures. Im very happy they did that

                                                     . ........The reason I wrote this is because six people in the last blog did not get a chance to read it. They can now. And see the people.who helped and to encourage others to write one!!!