The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 17, April 27, 2003, Article 15

COME WITH ME, MY NUMISMATIC FRIEND

  The April 3-9, 2003 issue of Metro, "Silicon Valley's
  Weekly Newspaper" includes a review of an interesting
  book by Paul Collins' titled "Sixpence House: Lost in a
  Town of Books." (Bloomsbury; $23.95 cloth).

  "A few years back, Collins, author of Banvard's Folly...
  and an editor for McSweeney's Books, packed up his wife,
  his young son and about 3,000 books and moved from San
  Francisco to Hay-on-Wye, a little town in Wales that boasts
  two score secondhand and antiquarian bookstores."

  "The real characters in Sixpence House are the books
  themselves. Collins wades through teetering tomes, rescuing
  such orphans as "an 1893 volume titled Current Coins, Picked
  Up at the Railway Station, in which S.Q. Lapius begins with
  the immortal invocation 'Come with me, my numismatic friend ...'"

  http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/04.03.03/sixpence-0314.html

  Has anyone seen or heard of the Lapius book?  Is it a novel?
  One with a numismatic theme?   I'd never heard of it before
  seeing this reference.   I assume I would have heard of it before
  if it were related to U.S. numismatics - could it be a British
  publication?

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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