Welcome to The E-sylum: Volume 2, Number 6: February 8, 1999: an electronic publication of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society. OUR NEW NAME These email missives are in their sixth month now, but they're never had a formal name. To remedy that situation, we've decided on "The E-sylum", an obvious play on our print journal "The Asylum". NEW SUBSCRIBERS Texan Lance Ward, Sr. is our newest subscriber, thanks to NBS President Michael Sullivan. Welcome aboard! COUNTERFEIT DETECTOR INFO. NEEDED Member Wendell Wolka is in the midst of researching a new book on Ohio obsolete notes and asks if anyone can provide photocopies of the Ohio pages from a certain counterfeit detector. He unfortunately does not presently know the name of the specific detector (he'd like to know that as well), but describes the methodology: Composite woodcut drawings of specific notes are shown with key features of both genuine and counterfeit notes detailed and numbered on the image. These features are then numbered and described in a brief summary for each note. He has several of the plates and descriptions, but not the whole Ohio section. Wendell is willing to pay any costs associated with copying these pages and would also love to purchase an original copy if any of you have an extra. He can be contacted at PURDUENUT@aol.com or P.O. Box 569, Dublin, OH 43017. GENGERKE UPDATE? Saul Teichman writes: "Is there any thought to the NBS taking over or producing its own version of Martin Gengerke's Numismatic Auction book? It is the kind of project all members should consider contributing to. It might be a good idea to have this book (which most of us use as a checklist) available and updateable on the internet to keep it current. I would like to know what other members think about this idea." ROPER ROUNDUP NBS Board member P. Scott Rubin published an article in the Fall, 1998 Asylum titled "Variants of the 1851 Roper Auction Sale Catalogue." The Philadelphia sale is considered by many to be a landmark in the hobby of numismatics in America. In preparation for a follow-up article, Scott is requesting that those who have a copy of the sale please contact him at P.ScottRubin@WorldNet.ATT.Net FEATURED WEB SITE Former subscriber Edward C.D. Hopkins suggested this site, which contains more than 1,000 entries on the history and coinage of ancient Parthia: http://www.fivepointstech.com/parthia/parthia_biblio.htm [NOTE: As of December 30, 2000, the site has moved to: http://parthia.com/parthia_biblio.htm -Editor] Wayne Homren Numismatic Bibliomania Society The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. For more information please see our web site at http://www.money.org/club_nbs.html There is a membership application available on the web site. To join, print the application and return it with your check to the address printed on the application. For those without web access, contact Dave Hirt, NBS Secretary-Treasurer, 5911 Quinn Orchard Road, Frederick, MD 21701 (To be removed from this mailing list write to me at whomren@coinlibrary.com)
