Welcome to the Numismatic Bibliomania Society mailing for October 30, 1998. NBS CONSTITUTION Our President Michael J. Sullivan reminds members that the NBS Constitution and By-Laws ballot is coming to a close. All NBS members are encouraged to review the proposed revisions contained in the last issue of the Asylum and mail in their ballots. Results will be presented to the membership in the final Asylum issue of 1998. 1998 COAC Michael will be presenting a paper on Counterfeit Detecting literature at the 1998 Coinage of the Americas Conference at the American Numismatic Society in New York November 7. This year's conference theme is "Circulating Counterfeits of the Americas" Michael gave us a preview of his talk at the NBS meeting at the ANA convention in Portland this summer. MONOGRAPH ON MEDAL LAWS AVAILABLE NBS Board member Pete Smith has compiled a monograph titled: "Laws of the U.S. Congress Authorizing Medals". The card-covered 84-page monograph includes the text of more than 200 laws related to authorization of medals with references to numismatic catalog numbers and an index. For ordering information, contact Pete at Smith.Pete@dorseylaw.com NEW MEMBERS Our newest members include Henk Groenendijk of the Netherlands, Bill Burd of Chicago Coin, book dealer John Brew, Bob Van Ryzin of Krause Publications and Editor of Coins magazine, and Phil Mossman, Editor of the Colonial Newsletter. Welcome aboard all. This brings our number to 115. Please continue to pass the word to fellow numismatic bibliophiles. FEATURED WEB SITE Today's featured web site is the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's online American Currency Exhibit at http://www.frbsf.org/currency/index.html 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)
