I was delighted to read Dr. Kavan Ratnatunga's comments about the Einstein counterstamped half dollars. I never thought of the visual relationship between Einstein and the IN GOD WE TRUST motto. It is most appropriate since there are many quotes of Einstein about God--like "God does not play dice with the universe."

I'm wondering if anyone out there has a .pdf of Joseph Mickley's 1858 Dates of US Coins and Their Degrees of Rarity. It's very notable as the first public mention of Judd 58.

Does anyone have a named Cogan 10/22/1878 Clemens sale ? I'm trying to find out who purchased the 1838 Gobrecht dollar which was originally Mickley’s. Any help E-sylumites can provide be would be greatly appreciated.

While catching up records at year’s end, I noted a discrepancy in the expiration dates of my Numismatic News subscriptions. The previous one expired December 2015, while the new one expires in August 2015. The reply to my Customer Service query said that NN does 32 issues per year which is August. Not satisfied with the answer, I addressed the problem to Dave Harper and the matter was resolved the same day. Seems the subscription department forgot that the 32 paper issues were interspersed with 20 digital issues. My yearly subscription now expires in December as it should.

Every subscriber to NN should be aware of this problem as I doubt my subscription is the only one affected. A global fix should be in the works but everyone should keep an eye on their subscriptions to determine if the problem affects them and that it gets fixed within the next month or so. Thanks Dave for a quick resolution to the problem.