Welcome to the Numismatic Bibliomania Society mailing for October 14, 1998. THE ASYLUM The Summer '98 issue has been hitting mailboxes since our last mailing. Secretary-Treasurer Dave Hirt will take a deserved break, vacationing in Europe for a few weeks. He'll count the ballots for the ratification of our new Constitution and Bylaws on his return. WHO'S WHO? Just for fun, can anyone put names to all the faces in the photos of our meeting in Portland (p44)? I'll give one hint - the bored-looking young lady in the first row of the top picture is my wife Dee, who I'm sure would have been happier shopping. The rest of us nuts had a great time, though. WEB SITE UPDATES http://www.money.org/club_nbs.html Thanks to Bill McDonald, we now have links on the "Literature Lists" page to some numismatic journals published in Canada. President Michael Sullivan contributed the text of his article on the Foote counterfeit detector - go to the "Publications" page, then choose "Articles". NEW MEMBERS Our mailing list is growing. The newest members include Rob Yuell, Dale Kreuger, John Dirbauer, Ronald Greene, Leonard Augsburger, Tom O'Mara, Benny Bolin, Peter Mosiondz, Paul Johnson, and L.D. Mitchell, bringing our number to 105. Welcome aboard! MONEY TREE SALE In February, Money Tree cataloguer Ken Lowe died suddenly, and the firm went into low gear to regroup. Myron Xenos (xenos@bright.net) is pleased to announce that things are back on track with their 30th Mail Bid sale of numismatic literature (closing date, October 30, 1998). David Sklow cataloged the sale. FEATURED WEB SITE Today's featured web site is the Chicago Coin Club (http://www.ece.iit.edu/~prh/coins/ccc.html), since the featured speaker at tonight's meeting is one of our own NBS Board members. From the CCC web site: "Featured Speaker: Dr. Joel J. Orosz on Early U.S. Coin Collectors (Pre-1840's) One of the earliest numismatic sales in the U.S. was held November 1, 1858. More than one book refers to this date as the beginning of our hobby in this country. They do not know that numismatists had already been active for more than a century. Dr. Orosz has researched these early collectors through historical periodicals and journals and has uncovered many fascinating stories of people like Rev. Andrew Eliot, Boston; Pierre Eugene Du Simitiere, Philadelphia; Rev. John Christopher, New York City; and Robert Gilmor, Jr., Baltimore. His well-written papers on this subject have received numerous awards due in large part to his ability to extract relevant information that is pertinent to today's coin collectors." Wayne Homren Numismatic Bibliomania Society http://www.money.org/club_nbs.html (To be removed from this mailing list write to me at homren@cgi.com)
