Last week I was looking through David Sklow's current sale catalog. I noticed a long run of James Kelly's Coins and Chatter (Lot 398). I decided to pull my set from the shelf to compare.

I noticed that some issues that appeared to be missing from my set were also missing from the Sklow offering. This made question if these issues really exist. I looked in the Charles Davis work on American Numismatic Literature, but this periodical is not listed.

So I will turn to our great E-Sylum readers to find out what makes a complete set. My set is as follows:

Kelly's auction sales, 8 numbers in 7 sales are listed in Gengerke. All these issues, except a few of the auction sales were 4 page pamphlets, easily lost or misplaced. It is surprising to me that any long runs survived.