Regarding the subject of swapped-out coins, such as the Tidy House offering illustrated last week, this reminds me of something very close to home. I buy so many partial collections of coins simply to get the board or album containing them for my collection that I'm compelled to recycle those coins back into the market some way. Since I always have a large stock of duplicate boards, I carefully remove the coins from the desirable album or board in which I purchased them and then replace them into some common, low value board for resale. I never state that the coins are original to the board, but simply that they are a collection of such-and-such coins in an old coin board.

I've found often, however, that boards I've sold empty to a dealer will reappear a week or two later now filled with coins and presented as an original coin collection from an old estate. This serves as a reminder to me (as it should to all) to purchase such collections for no more than the collective value of the coins and their container. The story that comes with them, unless it is well documented, is worth precious little.

Here's an eBay item that caught my interest---turns out it's not what I expected

We have changed our website a bit so the link to this book has changed to: https://www.polymernotes.org/polymer-bank-notes-of-the-world . The next book will be released in April 2019 at Valkenburg fair.

While reading the E-Sylum story about the American Tax Token Society's newsletters being added to the Newman Numismatic Portal, my first thought was GREAT!! Now I can delete all of my scans and free up the disc space and speed up backups. Then I wondered, as time moves forward, is the NNP getting the new issues and keeping up? My question is for the ATTS and other organizations that are still around.

On finding things in old books, I once purchased a used copy of Krause on world paper money. I found 25 or 30 pieces of currency that a previous owner had left in the book. There was nothing of great value, but the fun was the thrill of the unexpected find. I believe that the book had belonged to a World War II soldier who was in the North Africa campaign, because many of the notes were from those countries.