The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 9, March 4, 2007, Article 1

WAYNE'S WORDS

Among our recent subscribers are Len Bailey of Littleton Coin Company,
and Nate Fick, courtesy of Barbara Gregory.  Welcome aboard!  We now
have 1,079 subscribers.

This week's issue brings announcements of two new numismatic books,
and reviews of recent books on the coinage of Saint-Gaudens and Morgan
silver dollars.  Dennis Tucker requests information about a weekly
publication called "The Restrike", and readers provide some answers
on SEM-EDX testing and the Raleigh Plantation Token.

In the news are two items relating to the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and
Printing - a BEP worker is sentenced to Federal prison, and a new study
considers exotic technologies for preventing counterfeiting.  In other
news, Princeton University receives a Chinese coin collection, Zimbabwe
rolls out a new high-denomination note in an environment of
hyperinflation, and Iran touts its nuclear know-how on a new banknote.

Alan V. Weinberg shares with us a letter to his Senator on the Stolen
Valor Act, and the World War I medal of a black Canadian soldier sold
last week is now heading to a museum.  To learn what a Fresnel magnifying
lens could have to do with numismatics, read on.  Have a great week,
everyone.

Wayne Homren
Numismatic Bibliomania Society

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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