The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 35, August 14, 2005, Article 3

JOHN REICH E-NEWSLETTER DEBUTS

Bill Luebke (an E-Sylum subscriber) writes: "I am creating a
newsletter for collectors of 1794-1839 U.S. federal coinage
in silver and gold called the JR Newsletter. It is not affiliated
with any numismatic organization, though subscribers are
encouraged to join the John Reich Collectors Society (JRCS),
a club dedicated to these series. JRCS can be contacted at
www.jrcs.org.

I invite all to subscribe to the JR Newsletter. There are no dues
or other fees of any type. I plan to pattern JR News after your
fine work with The E-Sylum and Mark Switzer's fine work with
Region 8 of the Early American Coppers Society. Imitation is the
greatest form of flattery, after all.

To subscribe, simply send an email to JRNews at nyc.rr.com.
Please also include any newsworthy item pertaining to U.S.
federal silver and gold coinage of 1794-1839. I do need some
news to publish. Comments re conventions, auctions, cherries,
questions to members, new die states, interesting items on the
web including eBay, etc. (Just like E-Sylum)."

[Actually, we don't publish eBay links in The E-Sylum,
since we have a general policy against publishing individual
wanted or for-sale items. This is to keep the focus on
research and information rather than commerce. We do
however, publish web links to numismatic literature dealer
web sites, fixed price lists and auctions.

As far as imitation goes, flatter away. One of the goals in
the back of my head when I started The E-Sylum was to
provide an example of what an electronic publication on
numismatic topics could become. I'm actually surprised
that it took so long for similar publications to appear. I
don't know how many actually model themselves on
The E-Sylum, but I've been told a number did. None is
exactly like The E-Sylum, and I wouldn't expect them to be.
But I would encourage all prospective e-newsletter editors
to read my article on the creation of The E-Sylum in the
25th Anniversary issue of The Asylum. There's a method
to the madness - many aspects of this publication were
carefully planned, and there are good reasons for doing
things the way we do them. Not that we can't be improved
upon - The E-Sylum finished second in the Electronic
Newsletters category in the American Numismatic
Association's Outstanding Club Publications Contest for
2005. Congratulations to a fellow Swede, Nels P. Olsen,
editor of the Ozaukee Coin Club Newsletter, from the
Ozaukee (Wisconsin) Coin Club. -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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