When did Felix Schlag die?
The designer of the Jefferson nickel passed away on March 9, 1974, at the age of 82. I’m out of work. My skills include a thorough grounding in coin collecting. Are there any job possibilities in numismatics? The obvious one is becoming a coin dealer, but there are jobs for authenticators, graders, researchers, catalogers and journalists. As you may have noticed, there have been full page ads offering jobs in recent issues of Numismatic News. Some years ago there were ads offering a rare form of the 1967 New Zealand dollars with “inverted edge lettering.” What ever happened to that variety? In this case, as documented by the New Zealand authorities, the dollars were struck on planchets that had already had the edge inscription applied, so the position of the edge inscription in relation to the obverse is completely random. The law of averages would dictate about a 50-50 split. This is true for almost any coins struck on planchets prepared with the edge inscription. It of course would n
