The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 42, October 21, 2007, Article 18

WAYNE'S NUMISMATIC DIARY: OCTOBER 21, 2007

Due to the high interest in U.S. paper money these days,
another item of numismatic literature bringing strong
prices are the Heath counterfeit detectors.  I was speaking
to numismatic literature dealer John Burns about these on
the phone this week.  A couple weeks ago I'd been offered
a decent copy of the 1866 second edition and had ordered it.
After talking with John the book arrived and I was pleased
with its condition despite a spine chip.  It's one I didn't
already have in my library, so on the shelf it went.

Another acquisition this week came from the Stack's John J.
Ford sale XX. Via Internet bidding I purchased lot 3086,
a pair of two different Denver CO. Labor Exchange notes.
I've gotten interested in Labor Exchange notes since I
purchased some 1833 Robert Owen Labour Exchange notes from
Simon Narberth in London.  The Ford Denver notes are the
first U.S. labor exchange notes I've bought.  There are
others, and I hope to build an exhibit of them someday.
Here's a link to the auction lot on the Stack's site:
1833 Robert Owen Labour Exchange notes
Also during the week I corresponded with a currency dealer
who was offering what he called a rare J.S.G. Boggs note on
eBay.  It may well have been an early genuine piece, but
I was not able to convince myself that the offered note
was genuine.  It lacked Boggs' typical authentication
devices on the reverse, which on this piece was blank.
It was similar to a large acrylic work pictured in a book
about a 1990s Boggs museum exhibit, but the book did not
mention any smaller size versions of the piece.  The dealer
who responded quickly to my first query didn't answer my
question about the provenance of the piece and later I
noticed that the lot had been withdrawn from eBay.

I received multiple emails from several sources about the
ANA's sacking of its Executive Director.  On Wednesday
afternoon I got a phone call from my friend Sam Deep, who
had been in Colorado Springs for the public portion of the
ANA Board's meeting.  We talked mostly about our preparations
for next weekend's Pennsylvania Association of Numismatists
coin show.

Wednesday night I had my first numismatic outing since
returning from London.  I met Roger Burdette and coin dealer
Wayne Herndon for dinner at a restaurant in Herndon, VA.
I'd never met Wayne before and three of us had a fine evening
getting to know one another.  I'd organized the dinner as
a way to kick off the creation of a numismatic social
organization modeled after The Sphinx Society, a great
club I'd belong to along with Sam Deep in Pittsburgh.
With no officers, no duties and no projects, the club is
purely a social gathering for numismatists.   We're
recruiting additional members and we would love to hear
from E-Sylum readers in or near Northern Virginia who
might be interested in becoming either regular members
or occasional guests for our gatherings.  Email me for
more information.

Finally this week, I made a deal with Terry Flaherty to
sell him my copy of the S.Q. Lapius 'Current Coins' book
I'd written about in The E-Sylum.  Flaherty is researching
the life of physician James Ball Naylor, who wrote the
book under the Lapius pseudonym.  I'll get it in the mail
later this week.

Whew - it's been a far busier week for numismatics than
I'd expected.  No wonder I ran out of time to finish this
darned issue of The E-Sylum.  I should also take a moment to
apologize to the many authors of new numismatic books I've
recently purchased, or to the publishers who've sent me
review copies.  My pile of to-be-reviewed literature was
threatening to topple over and I had to put it in a box.
I will eventually get to most books, but it's going to
take a time.

 MORE ON S. Q. LAPIUS, PEN NAME OF JAMES BALL NAYLOR
 esylum_v10n25a27.html

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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