Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1879 — Hobbles. [ARTICLE]

Hobbles.

It is estimated that there are in Philadelphia not less than 2,000 collections of old coins and autographs. The hobby is confined entirely to the male sex. Speaker Randall has a fondness for specimens of our golden currency, and is the proud possessor of a collection comprising a specimen of every gold coin which has been coined in this country. S»mon Gratz, ex-President of the Board of Education, has the reputation of possessing the largest collection of autographs in existence in this country. William S. Vaux, a cousin of the ex-Mayor of that name, has an immense collection of old paper money and .coin—among the latter being a fine 1804 cent, which has an extraordinary value. Perhaps the largest collection in America is in the possession of a Tenth Ward druggist. His accumulations, the labor of over thirty-five years, are valued at $75,000, Among them is a complete collection of copper, silver and gold issues of the United States, together with a nearly complete set of the ojd Colonial coins,