The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 4, January 28, 2007, Article 1

WAYNE'S WORDS

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This issue opens with two items inspired by Dave Bowers' comments
about the gaps in American medallic literature.  In another item an
author donates copies of his numismatic fiction book to U.S. troops
in Iraq.  Also, Mark Tomasko writes about the new interest in Nazi
counterfeiting in WWII, including a recent book, new movie and
front-page Wall Street Journal article.

In commemorative coin news, there is new movement to extend the U.S.
quarter program to include Washington, D.C. and the U.S. territories,
a new article profiles the designer of some recent Canadian
commemorative coins, and the Carson City Coin Press No. 1 comes to
life to strike some new commemoratives.

Dick Johnson's earlier suggestions concerning the rising cost of
materials for the U.S. one and five-cent coins get new life with
the independent endorsement of a Federal Reserve economist.

Counterfeiting (or it debasing?) is in the news this week with an
archaeological find in St. Augustine, Florida, and a shower of
counterfeit banknotes from the sky in South Africa causes quite a
stir.

In numismatic museum news we have reports on Shanghai Bank Museum,
the coin room of the National Museum in Thailand, Cambridge's
Fitzwilliam Museum and the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. Finally, to
learn what dead men do on vacation, read on. Have a great week,
everyone.

Wayne Homren
Numismatic Bibliomania Society

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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