is the store site designed to partially support my main informational web site,

Coxrail.com is dedicated 100% to cataloging collectible railroad stocks and bonds from every railroad company that ever existed in North America.

Papermental.com is dedicated to selling all sorts of paper collectibles with the exception of railroad stocks and bonds. I purposely avoid selling railroad stocks and bonds. Because I catalog those terrific collectibles, I try to avoid affecting the market. In that market, I am strictly a cataloger.

I neither buy nor sell
railroad stocks and bonds.
Please do not ask.

If interested in buying, selling or collecting railroad stocks and bonds, please see my large list of professional dealers on the Coxrail.com site.

Papermental is a one-man operation.

Papermental and Coxrail.com are operated after business hours by Terry Cox. You may contact me at

info@papermental.com
Terry Cox
6275 Simms St, Suite 100
Arvada CO 80004

So who is Terry Cox?

During the day, I make geologic maps and do database work for clients in the resources industry. I am strongly allied with my longtime partner Cadd Services. Our main focus is gold, uranium, tellurium and other economic resources.

My background is geology

At Indiana University, I was heavily involved in mapping caves. You may encounter my name in relation to Hoosier spelunking, especially Wayne's, Eller's, Wilson's and many other caves. Caving was what got me into geology.

With a geology degree in hand, I worked several years with Amax Coal in Appalachia before moving west. Out here in Colorado, I worked with Rocky Mountain Energy, a subsidiary of the Union Pacific Corp.

Inside the Mountains.

In 1989, Pruett Publishing graciously published my first book, Inside the Mountains: a history of mining around Central City, Colorado. It had lots of pictures and was intended to help tourists understand how gold was mined in one of Colorado's most famous mining towns. The book is long out of print, but can occasionally be found on Alibris and Amazon. (No, I do not have any.)

Mail order paper.

I have always been involved in some sort of collecting so started selling fractional currency in 1985.

I started out selling U.S. fractional currency and gradually added other U.S. and Confederate currency.

By 1990, I had diversified into selling checks, Confederate bonds and all sorts of related paper items. I changed my business name to:

By the time I pulled the plug in 1992, I had sold all sorts of financial-related paper, including large- and small-size U.S. currency, nationals, Confederates, checks, souvenir cards. Unfortunately, issuing mail order catalogs (Remember, this was the pre-internet world!) was too time-consuming when balanced against my real daytime work.

By the time I had finished with 32 catalogs, I was selling large numbers of financial-related collectibles including large numbers of railroad stocks and bonds.

And THAT was how I got into cataloging stocks and bonds.

Railroad Stocks and Bonds Catalog

After cataloging certificates for several years, Fred Schwan and BNR Press kindly published the first edition of my guidebook in 1995. It went out of print about four years later and I published the vastly larger second edition in 2003.

The first edition (left) is long out of print, but appears routinely on eBay and occasionally on Amazon. The second edition is readily available from major U.S. and European certificate dealers and from Amazon.com.

I continue cataloging railroad stocks and bonds every signle day of the week. Essentially all of the material in the books has been available online at the Coxrail.com web site since mid-2000.

Other paper

For the last decade, I have sold a tremendous number of magazines for a friend who shut down his long-time collectibles store. Most of the magazines are long-gone, but I am finally starting to sell the newspapers.

You will find a large number of newspapers on Papermental, but this is really just the tip of the iceberg. Stay tuned for more.