The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 22, May 27, 2002, Article 16

NUMISMATIC TYPOES

  Eric Newman writes: "You asked in your May 19, 2002
  E-Sylum for major mistakes in publications and my favorite
  is Sanford J. Durst, COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO
  AMERICAN COLONIAL COINAGE, IT'S ORIGINS,
  HISTORY AND VALUE (New York 1976). Errors on
  a cover as in this case are rare but this "itsy bitsy" insertion
  of an apostrophe is a gem."

  John Kraljevich writes: "I'm sure others will submit the rare
  edition of Penny Whimsy which the noted mathematician
  Blaise _Pascal_ worked on.  Dorothy _Paschal_ apparently
  did not assist with the Durst reprint.

  Another favorite [also noted by Mark Borchardt -Editor]:
  The 2002 Early American Coppers sale, where principal
  Chris  McCawley's name was spelled incorrectly on the
  front cover.  And Chris doesn't even have a silent J in his
  last name!   (Chris -- if you read this, remind me to buy
  you a beer for the embarrassment)"

  Christopher Eimer writes: "Your request for typos, in the
  19 May issue of the Asylum, reminds me of one such error
  at a particularly crucial place. The excellent 1984 reprint
  by the Italian publishers S.P.E.S.of G.F. Hill's Italian Medals
  of the Renaissance, which was first published in 1930, invites
  readers, in the penultimate paragraph of the Foreword, 'to
  reflect on what a remarkable achievement of scholaspih' Hill's
  work represents.

  If there is one word above all else that one would not wish to
  see with a typo, it must surely be 'scholarship', particularly in
  the context in which it here finds itself being used.

  But as an author myself, I am the first to confess the
  shortcomings of my own work, and the various errors that
  can slip into published work."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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