The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 27, July 8, 2007, Article 1

WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM 8 JULY, 2007

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1,150 subscribers.

This week we open with news on the disposition of John J. Pittman's
numismatic library.  Dick Johnson reviews the recent History
Detectives segment on Continental currency and contributes a number
of items related to the Lincoln Cent, including an extraordinary photo
in Popular Science magazine.

Bill Snyder presents a mystery box for storing U.S. half dollars,
and Alan Weinberg reviews the recent Presidential Coin & Antique Co.
medals auction in Baltimore.

In response to earlier queries, David Gladfelter provides background
on Wayte Raymond's Standard Catalogs, and we learn about the origin
of the POW/MIA stamp on U.S. paper money.  In a new research query,
Roger Burdette seeks information on William Ashbrook of the 1908
Assay Commission.

My London Diary this week includes a visit to the London Numismatic
Club, dinner with Coin World London correspondent John Andrews, and
visits to the Savoy Hotel and le Tour de France.

Next weekend I'm traveling back to the U.S. to visit my family.
Please send any submissions early in the week to ensure they make
it into the next issue.

To learn how to explode a post-1982 Lincoln cent, and where to find
Euro notes falling from the sky, read on.  Have a great week,
everyone.

Wayne Homren
Numismatic Bibliomania Society

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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