The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 48, November 28, 2004, Article 12

ACROSS THE EDITOR'S DESK

  Random notes on items I've recently come across:

  COIN WORLD Editor Beth Deisher had a nice article titled
  "The Story Behind The Story" in the Autumn 2004 issue of
  the NLG Newsletter, the official publication of the
  Numismatic Literary Guild.  The article recounts the behind-
  the-scenes action leading up to last year's bombshell discovery
  of the long-missing fifth 1913 Liberty Nickel.  Kudos to
  Mason Adams, the reporter for The Roanoke Times, whose
  sleuthing led to the coin's rediscovery in a long-forgotten
  corner of a closet.

  Nick Graver forwarded to me a very interesting illustrated
  article about Louis E. Eliasberg and his famous U.S. coin
  collection, published in the March 25, 1962 Sunday Magazine
  of Baltimore's The Sun newspaper.

  The November 2004 issue of Penny-Wise, the official
  publication of Early American Coppers, Inc., has an
  article by NBS President Pete Smith updating his research
  on the Starred Reverse Cent.    In passing Pete mentions he
  is now "writing a book on Personal Tokens and Medals of
  American Numismatists.  I have identified about 6000 items."

  In the December 2004 issue of Bank Note Reporter, Mark
  Hotz describes and illustrates several interesting National
  Bank Notes with rubber-stamped oriental "chopmarks,"
  similar to the chopmarks placed on U.S. Trade Dollars.
  Have these been written up anywhere in the literature of
  National Bank Notes (or U.S. Paper Money in general)?

  While sorting through my library this weekend I came
  across the September 1882 issue of The Magazine of
  American History.  Beginning on page 635 is an
  contemporary article about the sale of the Bushnell
  collection "lately knocked down at auction in New York."
  "The three thousand specimens in the Bushnell collection
  brought something over $11,000, which speaks well
  for the interest taken in purely American numismatics."
  Three of the specimens were the unique Lord Baltimore
  penny, a Brasher Doubloon, and Good Samaritan
  Shilling.   We can only imaging what the Bushnell
  collection might bring if it were sold in today's market.

  Another item unearthed was the January 1993 issue of
  COINage magazine, with an article by Kari Stone
  titled "Heading For the Top,"  featuring the 15-year-old
  John Kraljevich, Jr., who is now an NBS Board member
  and cataloguer for American Numismatic Rarities.

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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