Welcome to The E-Sylum: Volume 2, Number 44: October 31, 1999:
an electronic publication of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society.
SUBSCRIBER UPDATES
Just one new subscriber this week - Del Murchison of Ontario,
Canada. Welcome aboard! This brings our subscriber count to
247.
HOW TO GET THE ASYLUM
Some of our readers, curious to read Joel Orosz'
article on The Great Debate in the latest issue of The
Asylum, have asked how to get a copy. It is not our
general policy to send complimentary copies. Besides,
one of the goals of The E-Sylum is to promote membership
in NBS.
The Asylum is a benefit of membership in the NBS.
Members receive four issues a year for their $15 membership
fee. Back issues are available at $5 each by writing to our
Secretary, Dave Hirt. His address is at the end of each issue
of The E-Sylum.
New members receive ALL issues for the current calendar
year, so if you join now you'll get issues 1,2, and 3 for 1999,
then no. 4 as soon as it's published.
COMMUNION TOKEN BOOK PUBLISHED
Lester M. Burzinski announces the publication of "Communion
Tokens of the World". The book is hardbound and limited to
250 copies. It contains complete descriptions of 7,730
Communion Tokens from all issuing countries of the world,
including 4620 Photos. The cost is $ 80.00 postpaid. To
order, write to: Les Burzinski, 2105 Oakridge Ave., Madison,
WI, 53704.
WARNER MEDALS CATALOGUE REPRINTED
The Token & Medal Society (TAMS) has reprinted the 1902
catalogue of Wm. H. Warner & Brother of Philadelphia, in the
October 1999 issue of the TAMS Journal. The catalogue
described 102 medals available from the firm, which was
established in 1823. The original was furnished by Q. David
Bowers.
MORE ON MATTHEW STICKNEY
P.L.Mossman, Editor of The Colonial Newsletter writes:
"M. A. Stickney wrote a series of articles, "Notes on American
Currency," published in the Essex Institute Historical
Collections starting in Volume 1, 1859. I found his discussion
on colonial money very helpful in my research because he
presented personal observations and contemporaneous
references not otherwise available. I did not go beyond his
discussion of the colonial period but one might look further to
see if there are more useful tidbits concerning other specific
U.S. series.
ANDREW ZABRISKIE BIOGRAPHY
This is belated news to those who have a copy of the June
1999 Sotheby's sale of The Captain Andrew C. Zabriskie
Collection, but the catalog features a nice one-page biography
of the pioneer American collector by David E. Tripp.
Zabriskie's collection of U.S. coins was sold by Henry
Chapman in 1909, but "Andrew Zabriskie's most lasting
achievement as a collector must be in the field of Political
tokens and medals, and most specifically his focus on the
sixteenth president. His pioneering work, "A Descriptive
Catalogue of the Political and memorial Medals Struck in
Honor of Abraham Lincoln", which he wrote and published
in 1873, is a modest work of which only seventy-five copies
were printed, but it became the foundation of the collecting
area which has become known as Lincolniana."
FEATURED WEB SITE
This week's featured web page is a story about a wacky
proposal to put expiration dates on U.S. currency.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32121,00.html
Wayne Homren
Numismatic Bibliomania Society
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