I like multitasking — switching from one project to another. Always keeping busy, it seems. I don’t think I will ever retire. What would I do then?

As you read these words, I am immersed in the manuscript of A Guide Book of Liberty Seated Silver Coins, to be delivered to Whitman in early summer.

My column last week drew a number of responses, all favorable, several suggesting that I write more.

Does the highest grade number yield the best coin?

What might have been but wasn’t: 1983 and 1984 Olympics commemoratives distributed solely by the Occidental Petroleum Co.

The years that Margo Russell served as editor of Coin World — from 1961 until her 1985 retirement — were some of the most evolutionary in our hobby.

After President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, the nation mourned.

Margo Russell, editor of Coin World from 1961 to 1985, was front row center in reporting many controversies in the hobby during the 1960s.

In November 1962 collectors and dealers were surprised, shocked, and delighted when the great Treasury hoard of silver dollars was revealed.

Margo Russell could not have been a better choice as editor of Coin World.