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The E-Sylum: Volume 4, Number 53, December 30, 2001, Article 15 E-SYLUM'S ADVANCING FOURTH! Dick Johnson writes: "Wayne Homren, take a bow! To the officers of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society you are to be congratulated for supporting this newsletter, now on the brink of its fifth year. Wayne, your concern early on whether there was going to be enough material to fill a weekly newsletter sounds familiar. I faced critics who felt the same when I started Coin World -- on a weekly schedule -- when only monthlies existed in the numismatic field over forty years ago in 1960. We solved the problem with a two-step approach: by asking coin clubs to send us their monthly meeting reports and asking for their membership lists. We wrote the meeting reports as news items and sent a sample copy to every member of that club when their club -- and often their name -- was in the news story in that week's issue. Subscription was cheap then, $3 a year, and subscription skyrocketed. So Wayne, my advice for continued E-Sylum success is: Keep your newsletter filled with fresh news and mention as many names as possible in every issue. What impresses me most about E-Sylum is the collective knowledge of your readers. Case in point: I asked a tough question recently about Panamint balls of silver. Despite my years in the field (February will be my 63rd as a collector!) I had not heard of this. Yet you received two absolutely fantastic communiqués, from Dave Bowers and Jan Monroe. Questions answered and thank you gentlemen! Wayne you deserve a pat on the back -- job well done! It gave me great pleasure to join with two dozen of my fellow members by electing you into the rolls of the Rittenhouse Society last year. You have achieved a rarefied status in the numismatic field. Keep up the good work!" [Thanks! (blush) -Editor]

Wayne Homren, Editor

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