Welcome to the Numismatic Bibliomania Society  
mailing #10, December 4, 1998.  

NEW MEMBERS  

  John Adams, Michael Niebruegge, and Cal Wilson have joined 
  the mailing list.  Welcome aboard. 
   

DOTY'S BOOK ON MATTHEW BOULTON  

  Dr. Doty reports that the Smithsonian bookshop may soon  
  stockhis book, titled 'The Soho Mint & the Industrialization  
  of Money'.  Contact Norma Ryan at (phone) 1-202-287-3563 or 
  (email) nryan@retail.si.edu.   If list members begin requesting 
  the work, "you would greatly cheer, and spiritually benefit,  
  dear Sir,  

                        your obdt hmbl Servt:  

                                     R:D     

         [look, you live in the eighteenth century long  
          enough, you begin writing like that.] " 
   

LIMITED EDITIONS  

  John Keele asked, "I have seen many ads for limited-edition  
  books.  Are these worth the increased price?  How few copies  
  need to be in existence before a book is considered 'rare'?"    

  My reply:  In numismatics, it doesn't take a lot of copies  
  for a book to be common.  1,000 copies of a Steven King novel  
  would be a rare edition, but in numismatic literature, that's  
  common.   300 might be "scarce"  100 or less would be "rare",  
  in my opinion.  

  I doubt there will be shortages of opinions among our readership; 
  what do you think? 
   

THE WIDE REACH OF THE WEB  

   The power of the internet to bring people together is  
   one of the many benefits resulting from our web site and 
   mailing list.    The internet has helped us reach many new 
   and former members in recent weeks.     

   We are very glad to welcome NBS charter member Cal Wilson  
   to the mailing list.   An early and active member in the  
   society, Cal dealt in numismatic literature, 
   held several literature sales and published "Wilson's 
   Numismatic Repository", an important source of information 
   on American numismatic literature.  

   In addition to Cal, we have John Adams on board now, too. 
   A longtime numismatic bibliophile, in 1982 he authored the  
   two-volume work "United States Numismatic Literature",  
   covering the subject of early auction catalogs and cataloguers. 
   

FEATURED WEB SITE  

   Today's feature is the Chinese Numismatic Web Site, 
   recommended by reader Scott Semans.  "Though specialized in  
   its subject area, it is beginning to serve as a focus for  
   Oriental numismatics in the West as there is no widely  
   distributed regular journal in the field.   

        http://www.charm.ru/ 
        http://www.charm.ru/journal.htm 
  
   

  Wayne Homren 
  Numismatic Bibliomania Society 
  http://www.money.org/club_nbs.html  

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