The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 2, January 14, 2007, Article 1

WAYNE'S WORDS

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I'm glad they're all here.  Our readers include numismatic bibliophiles,
researchers and writers, and anyone with an interest in learning more
historical background and lore about numismatics.  This week's issue,
while lengthy, is a good example of what The E-Sylum is all about.

The issue opens with two new items from our sponsor, the Numismatic
Bibliomania Society.  First, the latest issue of the print journal,
The Asylum, is at the printer.  This provides an appropriate opening
to review the difference between this email newsletter (The E-Sylum),
and the NBS print journal.  Secondly, NBS member Howard Daniel will
be representing the organization at a table at the upcoming ANA
convention in Charlotte.

Many E-Sylum issues include news and reviews of numismatic books old
and new, and this issue discusses a book on Dutch Manhattan and the
Founding of New York which has found many readers among collectors of
colonial U.S. coins.  We also have further discussion of 'Double Daggers',
the historical novel about the EID-MAR coin commemorating the
assassination of Julius Caesar.

Other E-Sylum fixtures are our readers' dead-on followups to queries
from previous issues, and these have generated a lot of great reading
for this issue.  Dick Johnson shares his knowledge about Loubat's
'Medallic History of the U.S.', and he and others provide a great deal
of background on the famous 'Inspecting the First Coinage' painting at
the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.  Another very detailed item concerns
William Woodin's acquisition of a trove of pattern coins from the U.S.
Mint.

We sometimes critique numismatic auction catalog descriptions, and in
this issue we look at a recent offering of the Albany Church Penny.
Rounding out the issue are items on a recent high-profile coin robbery,
spy coins in Canada, library deaccessioning policies, and Emperor Norton
of San Francisco.  Finally, wouldn't it be great if you discovered three
chests containing an immense quantity of gold and silver coin?  Well,
not if you can't keep a secret.  To learn what happened to George Kelway
and his 1786 windfall, read on.  Have a great week, everyone.

Wayne Homren
Numismatic Bibliomania Society

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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