Another great issue! That Continental dollar is amazing!

Let me tell you how excited I was to learn, via The E-Sylum, about the French language Association des Collectioneurs de Jetons-Monnaie. I'm researching the Castorland jeton question from both the French and American (Canadian of course) sides of the Atlantic. The E-Sylum came through yet once again!

I'm surprised that Greg Ruby is requesting images of five-pound notes!!! In those days higher-value notes were also fairly common, and the story The Adventure of The Three Garridebs deals NOT "with a printing press and counterfeit 5 pound notes" but with a printing press and counterfeit 100 pound notes! I quote from the story: “The greatest counterfeiter London ever saw. That’s Prescott’s machine, and those bundles on the table are two thousand of Prescott’s notes worth a hundred each and fit to pass anywhere. Help yourselves, gentlemen. Call it a deal and let me beat it.”

I was watching the 1945 movie The Picture of Dorian Gray and there is a scene about an hour and 15 minutes into it where Dorian goes to a wall cupboard and brings a small stack of boards to a table. While talking to another man in the room he begins to study some coins in the classic way, looking through a glass and placing them in a tray with circular holes. Not a single word was said regarding coins or what he was handling. It did not play any real part of the story. Curious distraction?

Here are some photos of a medallion I got yesterday. It is inscribed:

BOAST FOR – DENVER- AND THE – ROCKY MOUNTAIN-
NEWS- THE RECOGNIZED-WANT AD MEDIUM- OF THE WEST