WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM DECEMBER 25, 2016

New subscribers this week include: Martin Bertelsen. Welcome aboard! We now have 2,043 subscribers.

As noted last week, we're publishing a day late because of the Christmas holiday. I was glad to finally discover a coin my wife could appreciate, so among other things this year I gave her a Target Gift Coin. It has a code on the back and works just like a gift card.

This week we open with an overview of Kolbe & Fanning's 2016 private sales of numismatic literature, a rare Bechtel Confederate note album, one new book, and two interviews with prominent numismatists.

Other topics this week include electronic publishing in numismatics, British countermarked silver coins, bank note printer proof sample sheets, coin photography, fake Mogan dollars, Thomas Spence and his tokens, a South Carolina Elephant token, Venezuela's new banknotes, and a new owner for the polymer banknote supplier Innovia.

To learn more about Rev. Stanislaus Siedlecki, the library of Peter Mougey, forger Thomas Wyatt, James Halperin, roadkill coins, the Cunobelin metalworker coin, the Space-Time Continuum coin, sintered metal, and the symbolism behind The Wizard of Oz, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum

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