Welcome to The E-sylum: Volume 2, Number 10: March 8, 1999:
an electronic publication of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society.
NEW SUBSCRIBERS
New subscribers this week are Adam Sterling, Marc Melch
and Lionel Silva - "I collect archaic and classical greek
coins. I was a collector of US coins for thirty years and
changed to ancients about four years ago. I also like
reading about ancient coins, history, etc."
PUBLICITY
Thanks also go to Larry for publicizing our updated web
site on the NUMISM-L, COINS, and BIBLIONUMIS-L
internet mailing lists.
BRITISH TOKEN BOOK PUBLISHED
The book British Copper Tokens 1811 - 1820, by Paul and
Bente Withers, has been printed and will shortly be
available. The book covers the tokens of England, Wales,
Scotland and Ireland, including the Isle of Man and the
Channel Islands. For more information, contact one of
the distributors: Paul at Galata Books:
Books@galatacoins.demon.co.uk or Allan Davisson:
DAVCOIN@aol.com
BLACKSMITH TOKEN RESEARCH
Authors Barry Tayman and George Fuld are seeking
information about Canadian Blacksmith tokens for
an upconing monograph. Reports of all pieces,
common or rare, are welcome. For more information,
contact George at fuld1@home.com
LATEST LITERATURE SALES
Fred Lake's latest Function Associates sale #45 will
close April 6th, 1999. For more information contact
Fred at Fredlake@aol.com. Remy Bourne's public
auction #9 will be held in Rosemont, IL April 9-10.
For more information contact Remy at
remybook@mn.uswest.net.
A CLUB WITHOUT OFFICERS
Randolph Zander, in Part 3 of his Numismatic
Reminiscences article published in the last Asylum,
describes Ray Byrne as "a joyous collector - He
enjoyed his subject, and he certainly enjoyed
numismatic company - he founded the Pittsburgh
Sphinx club - a meeting of serious coin people
[ even if you called them sphincters]..."
The Sphinx Society lives on, and I've been glad to
be a member for several years now. It's a model
that serious collectors might consider emulating
in other cities. It is a club without officers: no
committees, no reading of the minutes, no anything
except numismatic fellowship. The group meets
monthly at a local restaurant; members take turns
hosting the meeting and giving an informal talk on
a numismatic subject - always a relaxing and
enjoyable evening.
OTHER HOBBIES NIGHT AT THE COIN SHOW
In Robert Turfboer's English translation of Pierre
Bastien's book "Les Numismates" (The Coin Collectors)"
we learn the story of "Baron Lodovico Soltieri, a
wealthy Florentine who collected coins from his own
city exclusively. Despite this specialty, he never
missed a European numismatic conference and had come
to this one also...
"He was always accompanied by a beautiful woman whom
he invariably introduced as his wife. The real
baroness, a chronic invalid, never left the family
palace and her husband always traveled in the company
of one of his mistresses. People in numismatic
circles whispered that Soltieri collected more
Florentines than Florentine coins."
FEATURED WEB SITE
One of the most unusual numismatically-related
sites on the internet is "Where's George - The
Great American Dollar Bill Locator" at
http://www.wheresgeorge.com/ Readers can enter
the serial numbers of dollar bills passing through
their hands and track their later progress around
the country with the help of like-minded bill
trackers. Strange, but true...
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.coinbooks.org/
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
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