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Lake Books Sale #125 PRL Available
Fred Lake writes:

The link to see the Prices Realized List for our sale #125 has been activated on our web site at http://www.lakebooks.com/current.html

Not So Unique
Larry Gaye writes:

So once again we see the total misuse of the word 'unique'. In the article about the Rare Thai One Bhat Coin Purchased the term is used for this coin as one of 100 known. Alas.

You rock, thanks for all of your patience, and devotion to The E-Sylum.

How do you catch a unique bird? You 'neak up on it... -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
RARE THAI ONE BHAT COIN PURCHASED (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v19n38a22.html)

More On The E-Sylum's 19th Anniversary
Jeff Burke writes:

I want to congratulate you for reaching the 19th anniversary of The E-Sylum. What an accomplishment! Thank you for all of your hard work in selecting and assembling numismatic scholarly articles for us to read on a weekly basis. Your long-term focus on this significant project is to be commended!

You're welcome! Knowing that the work is appreciated helps keep me going each week. But I wouldn't do it if it weren't still fun. Our hobby is an amazing fountain of interesting stories and information. -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: SEPTEMBER 11, 2016 : On The E-Sylum's 19th Anniversary (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v19n37a12.html)

The New Chinese Restaurant Math
Last week I wrote, "A Chinese Yuan is worth about 15 cents, so the 20 Yuan note is about three dollars, or about 5% of the 53 yuan tab." Pablo Hoffman writes:

Recalculate, my friend.

Well, my arithmetic was fine, I just chose apples for the numerator and peaches for the denominator - I mixed up dollars and yuan. -Editor

Ken Berger writes:

Is this the new math? 20 yuan of 53 yuan is approximately 37.7%.

That's more like it. Thanks. A big rebate for poor service, but I suspect this is just more of a big public relations stunt. Chinese are polite to a fault, and it's no surprise no one has taken the restaurant up on their offer to claw back 20 yuan of their 53 yuan tab. We'll update our web archive to drop my incorrect conclusion. -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
RESTAURANT STAFF WEAR BANKNOTES ON UNIFORMS (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v19n38a25.html)

Eccles Coins & Banknotes

Jim Duncan of New Zealand writes:

We have a trio of coin dealers - twins John and Peter Eccles - who married Margaret - who have just marked fifty years in the coin business. They are known all over NZ, and probably overseas as well - certainly in Australia. They have a reputation second to none, and have been responsible for the continued growth of the numismatic world in New Zealand. Fifty years is not a bad effort, and they are to be warmly congratulated! They have been recognised by their peers - Peter and Margaret are Honorary Members of the Numismatic Society of Auckland, and John, who lives in Wellington, is a Council member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand.

Congratulations to the Eccles family! -Editor

To visit the Eccles web site, see:
www.ecclescoins.co.nz

More on Captain Cook’s Resolution and Adventure Medal

Captain Cook’s Resolution and Adventure medal obverse

Captain Cook’s Resolution and Adventure medal reverse

Jim Duncan adds:

There have been less than 12 Resolution and Adventure medals discovered in the Pacific - and they should all show the effects of being long-buried. There are two types of medal, distinguished by the anchor on the left-hand ship. The hanging anchor is found on brass medals given to the natives they met; the horizontal anchor is found on the medals Sir Joseph Banks had struck later for friends and family, usually in silver.

Thanks. This one looks like the hanging anchor type. -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
TORONTO COIN EXPO FALL SALE 2016 HIGHLIGHTS : Captain Cook’s Resolution and Adventure Medal (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v19n38a15.html)

Other Young Numismatist Club Publications
George Cuhaj writes:

In the early 1970s there was a group called the Junior Numismatic Correspondence Club of America. When I was involved in it from 1974-77 they were publishing a mineograph type bi-monthly newsletter with YN authored articles and drawings. I met many of the group at the YN meetings during the ANA New York show. Lorry Kiessing, Larry Hample, and Paul Johnson (Now RCNA executive director) were all early members of the group.

As YNs tend to grow up and rotate out, its successor group was called the Confederation of Young Numismatists (COYN) which published COYN Press for a few issues.

Thanks! Does anyone have runs of these periodicals? I'm guessing they're pretty rare. -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
TWO NUMISMATISTS EXCHANGE CORRESPONDENCE (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v19n38a07.html)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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