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NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: OCTOBER 14, 2012 Alaska Gold Rush: Correction to Who Published First The E-Sylum article about the First National Bank of Fairbanks $5 note (E-Sylum, Vol. 15, Number 42, October 7, 2012), gave indicated that the Associated Press picked up the (original) story from the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner newspaper (which a letter writer humorously titled the Bairflanks Daily-Newsless Miner). However, for the record, it was the other way around. Working with Heritage Auctions, AP had the story exclusively first and it was subsequently picked up by other news media, including the Fairbanks paper. United Press International and other news media also did stories based on a news release from Heritage Auctions that was distributed to news media after the AP story broke. At one point, more than 2,000 web sites in the USA, Canada and other countries had stories or blog items about the note. To read the first article based on Heritage's information, see: Rare century-old $5 Alaska bill to be auctioned (news.yahoo.com/rare-century-old-5-alaska-bill-auctioned-070448123--finance.html;_ylt=A2KJjagl2XJQSgQA4EjQtDMD) To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: ALASKA NATIONAL BANK NOTE MAKES HEADLINES (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n42a22.html)
Sometimes the dog wags the tail, and sometimes the tail wags the dog.
I'd assumed the Fairbanks article had come first since it was the first I'd heard of it and that's the way these stories usually bubble up to the national stage. Sorry for the confusion.
-Editor
Correction to the Kikokuniya Website Address Well, I am embarrassed. I included a typo in the correction I sent about the Kinokuniya website. I spelled it correctly the first time out, and misspelled it at the second mention, and Wayne picked up the misspelling for the title of the correction. Thoroughly confusing for anyone not familiar with Japanese publishers, I'm sure. Try them all - eventually one will bring you to the correct website. To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: OCTOBER 7, 2012: Correction to the Kikokuniya Website Address (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n42a11.html) E-Sylums Lost in Space? I'm happy to report my E-Sylum arrived this week in good stead. I am sorry others did not get theirs, and the only explanation I heard about was that there were severe "Sun Spots" radiation that affected various forms of electronic transmissions during last week. Some lasted moments, many lasted for minutes and a few hours at a time. I don't know how this actually works but it sounds like I as well as others got "zapped" during one of these outbreaks, and ended up with a lost E-Sylum. Do you think we should try to go to outer space and retrieve it?
Gone to that great big bit-bucket in the sky? I dunno. If we find them, we may also solve the mystery of lost socks and homework assignments.
-Editor
Are Machin's Mills Pieces Washing Ashore? Regarding the George III coppers washing up on a Delaware beach, from the dates given, aren't they more likely to be Machin's Mills pieces or out-and-out British counterfeits?
Well, one should take any numismatic information in a non-numismatic publication with a grain of salt. We have no images of the coins, nor descriptions of them from contemporary numismatists. I'm afraid we may never know for sure. Perhaps more will wash ashore and find their way to someone who knows what they're looking at.
-Editor
Dick adds: Well, yeah. But the date 1784 is a dead ringer. Ain't no such animal, as the farmer said on first looking at a platypus. To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: GEORGE III COPPERS WASHING UP ON DELAWARE'S MONEY BEACH www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n42a24.html) Daniel, Schenkman and Holabird at the 2012 ANA This photograph by John Wilson shows Fred Holabird, David Schenkman and myself having a drink together before the American Numismatic Association convention banquet in Philadelphia in August 2012. Sorry for sending it late but I am just recovering from the shock of seeing myself and David in the same photograph. Yes, I was wearing a coat and tie but I did have on my Levi's
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