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The E-Sylum: Volume 15, Number 17, April 22, 2012, Article 11

QUERY: LITERATURE ON PALESTINIAN NUMISMATICS

Scott Barman writes:

I was going through some old collectibles and found I have a a few coins from Palestine from the time of the British Mandate. I'm looking for some good reading material on coins of that era. I found one book, "The Coins and Banknotes of Palestine Under the British Mandate," by Howard Berlin. Do you know if there any others?

Well, I don't know, but this being The E-Sylum I know where to find out. Howard Berlin is a subscriber and regular contributor, so I asked him. -Editor

Howard writes:

My book is now the paperback edition (2005), available from either Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786424451/ref=ed_oe_p/002-1489852-7287231?_encoding=UTF8 or the publisher for $49.95 + s/h http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-2445-1

The only other up-to-date authoritative book is by Rafi Dabbah, an Israeli. It is strictly on the banknotes. It is a bit pricey ($250 - hardback w/slip cover) from Amazon (The English version). I got mine gratis from the author as we are close friends. I saw a copy or two in Spink's London store but I don't know the price.

As far as I know, there have been a few articles here and there (in the past two or three years about the notes (by me as they relate to the vignettes in Paper Money Values) and a 3-part article by Mark Fox about the coins in general in 2011 World Coin News (reprinted Numismaster):
www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=17480
www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=18882
www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=19721

Having an expert handy is what I call an E-Sylum "Marshall McLuhan moment" from the famous scene in Woody Allen's "Annie Hall" . -Editor

Watch it on YouTube: Annie Hall (1977) scene with Marshall McLuhan (www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wWUc8BZgWE)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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