Benjamin Maximillian Mehl (November 5, 1884 – September 28, 1957), usually known as B. Max Mehl, was an American dealer in coins, selling them for over half a century. The most prominent dealer in the United States, through much of the first half of the 20th century, he is credited with helping to expand the appeal of coin collecting from a ...

2021年5月29日 · B. Max Mehl died in Fort Worth on September 28, 1957, and he was buried in the Beth-El section of Fort Worth’s Greenwood Cemetery. He was among the first six numismatists inducted into the CoinFacts Dealer Hall of Fame, established in 2010 by the Professional Coin Grading Service.

2023年6月23日 · Benjamin Maximillian Mehl is quite possibly the most famous numismatist of the 20th century. Living from 1884 through 1957, Mehl not only made “numismatics” a household word, but he also brought the joys of collecting to millions over his 50-plus-year career.

2016年2月3日 · Max Mehl claimed that he spent a million dollars advertising to buy a 1913 Liberty nickel for $50. Unfortunately his expensive ad campaign was a total failure. He was never able to buy that $50...

Benjamin Max Mehl, who started his career as a shoe clerk but became America’s most famous rare coin dealer of the first half of the 20th century, was nearly always known as B. Max Mehl (Benjamin never mentioned).

2022年5月19日 · Sometime after November 5, 1897, B. Max Mehl celebrated his bar mitzvah at Fort Worth. From the time the Mehl family arrived the Jewish community at Fort Worth grew stronger and more organized. Numbered among the earlier Jewish settlers at Fort Worth were Nathaniel and Jacob Washer, who opened a men's clothing store in that city in 1882.

2013年2月12日 · B. Max Mehl, a solo practitioner, held a whopping 116 auctions between 1906 and 1955. John W. Adams, in his indispensable two-volume United States Numismatic Literature, has examined — and graded...

2008年10月4日 · Mehl was born in Europe in 1884 and immigrated to the United States as a boy. He started his modest coin buying and selling business as a home-based enterprise in Fort Worth, Texas. In 1903 his first ad appeared in "The Numismatist." In 1904 he published the first of a series of coin price booklets, which he distributed widely by mail.

2023年12月9日 · B. Max Mehl was probably the greatest promoter of coins who ever lived. During the early 1930s, Mehl's response to the deep economic depression that gripped the country was an avalanche of national advertising that captivated the imagination of millions. In his heyday, he spent an average of $100,000 per year on advertising.

2023年6月26日 · By the age of 24, B. Max Mehl was established as a well-known national coin dealer. Mehl was a fixture and important attendee and exhibitor at American Numismatic Association conventions for decades to come.