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The Numismatic Bibliomania Society (NBS) is an educational association founded in 1979 to support and promote the use and collecting of numismatic literature. Numismatic literature includes books, periodicals, catalogs and other written or printed material relating to coins, medals, tokens, or paper money, ancient or modern, U.S. or worldwide.
This Week's E-Sylum
April 21, 2024
- WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM APRIL 21, 2024
- SOVEREIGN RARITIES ACQUIRES SPINK PUBLICATIONS
- NEW BOOK: NEW ZEALAND CATALOGUE 2024
- NEW BOOK: COINS OF INDIA
- NEW BOOK: 1920 UPPER SILESIAN EMERGENCY MONEY
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Announcements
- The Awards Page has been updated to show 2021 winners! NBS Awards Page
- New NBS Podcast
Numismatic Bibliographies
, with David Fanning, interview by Lianna Spurrier. Podcasts can be heard here. - Back Issues - Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers are now managing the distribution of back issues of the award-winning journal The Asylum. Back issues are available in limited numbers. An inventory of what's available can be downloaded at numislit.com/pdfs/AsylumBackIssues.pdf. Contact Kolbe & Fanning at orders@numislit.com or (614) 414-0855 to order.
- The Asylum Author Index has been updated. It is available on the NNP or on The Asylum page.
NBS Podcasts
NBS commissioned Lianna Spurrier to produce a bimonthly podcast for NBS. Below are the current 4 NBS Bibliotalk Podcasts to date:
- Episode 16 -
The Canadian Numismatic Bibliography
, with Daryl Atchison - Episode 15 -
Collection Highlights
, with Dan Hamelberg - Episode 14 -
The ANA Library
, with Akio Lis - Episode 13 -
Numismatics in American Universities
, with Kellen Hoard - Episode 12 -
Civil War Tokens
, with Cole Hendrickson
ALL Podcasts can be heard here.
NBS Podcasts are also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify.
Vol. 42 No. 1 Table of Contents
The Asylum Spring 2024
In this issue:
- My 1981 Bicentennial Bookstore Blow-out By Joel J. Orosz
- On a Quasi Coin Reported Found in a Boring in Illinois by William E. Dubois By Thomas D. Harrison
- The Kentucky Token and the Pyramid of the Fifteen American States
By Julia H. Casey - The Great Numismatic Library Conflagration and Other Perils Averted By George F. Kolbe
- Betts Library Siblings Reunited By Jeff Dickerson NBS Quiz By David F. Fanning
- More about Ard Browning By Pete Smith
- The Short Life of the Whitman Numismatic Journal By Mike Costanzo
- Released at Border: New Book about Borderland Numismatics Jason Elwell
- BiblioFiles: Justin Hinh, The Dansco Dude
Click on the link below for free PDF Copy of the Summer Issue V38N2:
Free PDF of Asylum V38N2 Summer 2020
Martin Gengerke has made his book on ANA Auctions Open Source and available for download by NBS Member at no charge. The book can be found on the >>Resources Page.<<