Coin World

Coin World

Type	Weekly
Format	Magazine
Owner	Amos Press
Editor	Beth Deisher
Founded	1960
Language	English
Headquarters	Sidney, OH
ISSN	0010-0447
Official website	coinworld.com

Coin World is an American weekly numismatic magazine. It is the world’s #1 publication for coin collectors and the weekly newspaper of the entire numismatic field. Each week, Coin World informs, educates, and entertains collectors pursuing their passion for coins, paper money, medals and tokens.

Founding and early history

Coin World was founded as a weekly publication in 1960 by J. Oliver Amos, a seasoned publishing professional from the third generation of newspaper publishers. Amos took his experiences in producing The Sidney Daily News to the coin field, applying what he learned from printing Linn's Stamp News. In 1960, the concept of a weekly coin publication was new. On the 25th Anniversary of Coin World in 1985, Amos related that he saw, “all the opportunities which could be developed from a weekly presentation – club meetings all over the country, personalities, and many other ideas that we had learned in publishing The Sidney Daily News as a community newspaper.”

With the help of James F. Kelly of Dayton, Ohio, the idea to include a weekly “Trends” column reflecting the changes in coin values was formed. Kelly was hired to be the inaugural Coin World Trends editor and D. Wayne Johnson of Shawnee Mission, Kansas was tapped to be the inaugural editor-in-chief.

The Sample Edition (Vol. 1 No. 0) was printed March, 1960 and its eight pages were designed to show potential subscribers and advertisers the look of the new publication. The first official issue was dated April 21, 1960. Within a year there were more than 53,000 paid subscribers.

Margo Russell era

If there is one person who is synonymous with Coin World, it is perhaps Margo Russell. She began her career at The Sidney Daily News and joined at Coin World as a historical researcher. In 1962, she ascended to editor and upon her retirement on February 28, 1985 after 23 years leading Coin World, many numismatists regarded her as the most influential person in the hobby. In 1975 she received the Farran Zerbe Memorial Award the highest award of the American Numismatic Association and in 1986 she was elected to its Hall of Fame[1].

Under Russell’s leadership, Coin World took a substantial role in promoting the growth of the hobby by cultivating close relationships with the U.S. Mint. Russell took an unprecedented role in expressing the desires of coin collectors and shaping the direction of the hobby through her efforts in Washington D.C.[2].

In a 1985 interview in Coin World celebrating the 25th Anniversary, Russell said, “If there is a single key to Coin World’s success, it is professionalism, a credo that has never been diluted, only strengthened over the first 25 years.”

Continued leadership under Beth Deisher

Upon Margo Russell’s retirement in 1985, Beth Deisher became editor and continues today in that capacity. While the Margo Russell era could be described as a period of growth in the hobby, Deisher’s could best be described as a time of refinement and the creation of the numismatic industry. She has witnessed the development of third party grading services, the rise of the modern coin market and record prices for rarities, and the development Internet as a vehicle to exchange coins and ideas.

Deisher has worked hard to protect the hobby and Coin World’s leading status among hobby publications. She was the lead witness at the July 12, 1995, congressional hearing that catapulted the drive for circulating commemoratives to the top of the U.S. Congress' legislative agenda, eventually resulting in approval of the legislation authorizing the 50 State Quarters program. [3]. Her weekly editorials reflect the pulse of a hobby that has become a billion-dollar industry[4]. Coin World continues to report on stories of great importance to the global numismatic community including the recent deluge into the numismatic marketplace of counterfeit Chinese coins[5].

What Dick Johnson wrote in a 1961 issue of Coin World celebrating the publication’s first anniversary issue rings true today: “We feel we have a duty to perform for our readers: to gather all the coin news, to publish and interpret the news, to bring our readers the most entertaining and educational features, to bring to our readers the wares of our advertisers, and to do all of this as rapidly as possible.”

External links

• Official site

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