The name Joseph Oberwise doesn’t mean much to the typical coin collector. His modest Los Angeles variety store and coin shop shut its doors more than 40 years ago. Oberwise didn’t write any significant books that would keep his name in current usage, nor did he have an important collection of his own that could be memorialized with a landmark auction catalog. No, Joseph Oberwise is not a name on that rings a bell to most in this hobby, but for a few of us he is something of a legend. His story, and those of his fellow coin board publishers, have now been told in a new book titled Coin Collecting Boards of the 1930s & 1940s: A Complete History, Catalog and Value Guide.

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