Would you believe that's not even the only known Chalmers shilling love token?

There were considerably more than a total of 6,700 North Carolina colonial notes in the original hoard. I personally sold about 8 or 9 thousand of them.

Commenting on the rediscovery of the "missing" prints at the Boston Public Library you posed the question: "Who among us hasn't misfiled something in their own library?" I'm afraid I can't be included in that list, as I recently discovered something that was quite deeply misfiled.

Like most collectors I have too much "stuff." Included among the overflow are several framed vintage coin boards holding complete or partial collections. I have too many of these to display them all at one time, so I rotate them periodically and stack the rejects vertically against the side of one bookcase. I recently went through this pile to inventory the boards, since it occurred to me that the collective value of the coins warranted recording. Within the stack I was very surprised to find my ex-wife's diploma from Pace University. I have no recollection of why it was there, and she didn't realize that it was missing. It has since been reunited with its owner.

The story about misplaced items I came across is not of numismatic origin. I mentioned the rumors of missing Wells’ letters in my article for the library newsletter. I had to be very diplomatic about it, but it is very possible that these letters sat in the library’s offsite storage facility among other uncatalogued items and nobody could locate them at the time an inquiry from the author writing about “missing” items came to the library. I hope I do not have to resign because of it: it was way before my time and in addition I “found” the letters!