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NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: JULY 26, 2015On The E-Sylum Regarding last week's E-Sylum, Dave Bowers writes: One of the finest/best issues ever! Ken Potter writes: I especially liked the pattern coins. Dave Ginsburg writes: I must say, The E-Sylum is, for me, the most interesting numismatic publication going – smart contributors, interesting contributions, a truly wide scope of contributions and an absence of focus on microscopic die varieties and other things in which I’m not really interested. My hat’s off to you for doing such a great job as editor for these many years!
In some ways it’s been easy. I just write about what I’m interested in. People interested in different stuff self-select out. The others stick around and invite their friends. It’s been a self-forming club of the like-minded.
-Editor
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The Elbeshausen Catalogue A couple weeks ago, David Pickup asked, "Would any of our readers know what the German word Bergrechnungsmarke means or have heard of a catalogue called Elbesh?" We got some great answers to the first question, but not the second. Ralf Böpple of Stuttgart, Germany writes: The author's correct name is "Elbeshausen", and the main reference is Elbeshausen, Siegfried - Oberharzer Jetons aus den Münzstätten der Welfen. Berechnungsmarken - Huntslaufzeichen - Münzmeisterpfennige - Jetons von Bergbeamten. Bremer Beiträge zur Münz- und Geldgeschichte 5, 2006, 392 pp, ISBN 3-00-020054-1
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The Atocha Money Chain Ken Bressett writes: The Atocha Money Chain is indeed real. I am fully convinced that it is as represented and could easily have been used in trade or barter as a convenient source of ready money. I was fortunate to see much of the Atocha treasures first-hand when I dove with the Fisher crew in 1986. I fondly remember my going-away party when I was allowed to wear that very chain around my neck as treat throughout the evening festivities.
Wow - what a treat! If the festivities involved alcohol, I can just picture someone teetering on a tabletop and distributing gold links like Mardi Gras doubloons. But not Ken, of course.
-Editor
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No Coin is Magnetic Regarding the blog article from the Royal Mint, Kavan Ratnatunga writes: No Coin is Magnetic. A steel-based coin will be attracted by magnets. If coins were magnetic they would stick to each other and that is not a desirable property. I made this comment almost 20 years ago when Sri Lanka first issued cupro-nickel plated steel coins in 1996. I just wish to clear up the bad use of the term 'magnetic' for coins.
Kavan's correct, of course. Coins may be attracted to magnets, but they aren't themselves magnetic.
-Editor
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Isle of Man Coin Provenance Regarding Peter Preston-Morley's question about the provenance of two Isle of Man coins, Patrick Ian Perez of Specialized Currency, LLC writes: I have a copy of the 1990 Sussex Collection catalog, and I cannot find the Isle of Man items Peter is referencing. Lots 3426 and 3427 are Morgan Dollars. The fifth session of the auction (Lots 5001-5459) does consist of "Medals, Coins, and Tokens from the Virgil M. Brand Estate" but nothing from Isle of Man. I also have the catalog of the Hans Schulman sale of November 20-25, 1964 which has a consignment from Brand but unfortunately no Isle of Man material. The auction lot descriptions that are pictured have got me interested, I am going to check a few other catalogs... I think these may be from the Norweb collection.
I asked John Kraljevich, who writes: They're not from the 1983 Brand sale -- mine were within arm's reach just now. But Patrick's eye for the font is definitely correct. That font wasn't used anymore when Norweb rolled around, but it's from some ca. 1980-1984 Bowers & Ruddy or Bowers & Merena sale I'm sure.
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