Cornelius C. Vermeule III also wrote, with Norman Jacobs, Japanese Coinage (in editions of 1953 and 1972), long the only English-language book on the subject. It has been pretty well displaced by the Krause books, but is still remembered fondly by those of us who used it regularly in olden days. Norman Jacobs died a few years ago.

I saw that book in the American Numismatic Society library when I was there last January. If you go to the ANS website (www.numismatics.org), and click on "Library Catalog" you can pull down the box for "author" and enter "Groslier". This will pull up the book. The coins made up just a chapter in the larger work on monuments and antiquities in Cambodia.

The note listed in the "Special Presentation Copy" you received from Mr. Shafer and Mr. Mitchell can also be found in George Wait's 1976 book, New Jersey's Money. The last chapter in his book lists the known (at the time) issuers of depression scrip from the state.

Several of Fred Schwan's special editions have notes mounted in them. Ditto Gene Hessler's special editions. There was a Greek catalog published after WWII that was completely illustrated with actual notes (25 of them - but with half-tones of the coins).

Near the end of the productions, one note was exhausted, so copies of that note had to be printed to glue into the book. That note now appears in dealer junk boxes as a replica/counterfeit (in black and white half-tone - it would fool nobody).

The book is Historical collections: Financial breakdown of Greece--April 1941-November 1944, published by The Establishment of Mining Credit Corporation, Athens, no date, no author. I don't know how many editions it went through. The one in front of me is a fifth edition piece, and it has all original notes in it.

My copy of Fred Reed's book Show Me the Money! came with a piece of stage money tipped in.

My copy of Fred Reed’s book Show Me The Money has a piece of movie money laid in – this was a special promotion when the book came out. Some of the sample books of the American Bank Note Co. and National Bank Note Co. included proofs of bank notes, but these aren’t exactly “catalogs.”

In this category too are the fractional currency presentation books described by Martin Gengerke in the ANA Centennial Anthology,

If you count reprints of currency then consider the Woodbury & Co. reprint of the “Great Locofoco Juggernaut” satirical note included in a book on this topic, which sometimes brings more by itself than when included in the book. Nolie Mumey’s book Colorado Territorial Scrip also has a reprint of a Clark Gruber & Co. note. These last two may be worth half credit?

I have never seen or heard of one of these CSA ingots, either at Coin World, ANACS, or out in the "real world."

Ah, no wonder you looked vaguely familiar; you look much like your photo at the top of every E-Sylum. :-)

My son reported on the way home that he'd had a grand time at the show which, of course, included getting some goodies and getting a chance to explain what the four Lincoln cents next year are going to be "for." Thanks for putting that on.

President Bush, on a surprise trip to Iraq and Afghanistan, got a taste of dissent at a Baghdad press event Sunday when an Iraqi journalist threw shoes at him, forcing him to duck.

Barely 24 hours after the journalist, Muntader al-Zaidi, was tackled and arrested for his actions at a Baghdad news conference, the shoe-throwing incident was generating front-page headlines and continuing television news coverage. A thinly veiled glee could be discerned in much of the reporting, especially in the places where anti-American sentiment runs deepest.

In Sadr City, the sprawling Baghdad suburb that has seen some of the most intense fighting between insurgents and American soldiers since the 2003 invasion, thousands of people marched in his defense. In Syria, he was hailed as a hero. In Libya, he was given an award for courage.

In Saudi Arabia, a newspaper reported that a man had offered $10 million to buy just one of what has almost certainly become the world’s most famous pair of black dress shoes.

A daughter of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, reportedly awarded the shoe thrower, Muntader al-Zaidi, a 29-year-old journalist, a medal of courage.

No. 140 • 1933 Huey Long Toilet Seat Medal • One of the most improbable subjects ever rendered on a medal, by the Medallic Art Co., no less. But, then, Huey Long, known as the “Kingfish” with his one-man rule of Louisiana politics, was a rather improbable politician. Had he not been assassinated in 1935, American political history would likely be different from what we know today. This satirical medal commemorates a set-to when Long left a rest room in Sands Point, Long Island (New York), August 28, 1933, and was set upon by a concerned citizen (accounts as to what happened varied widely; Time magazine reported that a drunk Long had urinated on the trousers of the citizen), the shape of a convenient rest room facility defining the outline of this medal.

A local newspaper in New Orleans area writes about Paul Hollis, the dealer who (with a client) loaned the rare gold coin for display at the New Orleans Mint Museum.

The occasional scarcity of circulating medium, for the Commissariat did not bring into the colony British Coin, induced many individuals of known capital to issue promissory notes; this system spread like a contagious fever and before long men, almost strangers in the colony, followed the example. At first the notes were of four dollars (about a pound); some persons then reduced them to three - these sums were divided by others, and ultimately three penny and three half-penny notes became commonly current. The effect of all this was that improvements of all kinds were carried on with vigour, and high wages were given to workmen, for the masters paid them on the Saturday nights with coin of their own manufacture - it was one universal system of credit.