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B. Max Mehl Promissory Notes

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:30.00 USD Estimated At:60.00 - 120.00 USD
B. Max Mehl Promissory Notes
SOLD
35.00USDto j*******w+ buyer's premium (8.05)
This item SOLD at 2015 Oct 03 @ 12:17UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Three promissory notes from 1956/7 signed by legendary Texas coin dealer B. Max Mehl to the Fort Worth National Bank in the amounts of $10,000 and $25,000 (2). Mehl ran his first coin ad in The Numismatist in 1903, and by 1924 he was spending $50,000 a year for advertising. His "Star Coin Book" gave the American people prices he would pay for coins and millions were introduced to coin collecting. His mail order business grew to such a success, more than half the mail coming to the city of Fort Worth went to his office at 1204 W. Magnolia Street. His flamboyant marketing caused some to call him the P.T. Barnum of numismatics. Texas HWAC# 28124