I want to pass along news that the Token and Medal Society web site (www.tokenandmedal.org) is slowly coming back to life. One of my first projects has been to create an index for the TAMS Journal in an attempt to make 50 years of publications accessible to researchers. At present, contents and indexes for volumes 31 through 50 are online.

A search function for the TAMS Maverick database is being tested and will be released in the next few months. While there is still a lot of work to do, new content is being added every few weeks to benefit the members of TAMS and the hobby in general.

Comments, contributions, and suggestions for additional content can be sent to the TAMS Webmaster, Bill Hyder (bsktmkr@pacbell.net).

The Token and Medal Society, Inc. is an educational and non-profit organization devoted to furthering the exonumia field consisting of all forms of tokens, medals, badges and other items of a related nature. The aims of TAMS are:

• To promote and stimulate the study of tokens and medals
• To cultivate fraternal collector relations
• To encourage research and articles and recordings pertaining thereto
• To disperse information and knowledge in a society's journal
• To advance interest and prestige
• To promote meetings at conventions
• To promote and encourage distinct classifications at exhibits
• To endeavor to determine values of rarities
• To permanently record historical information relating to tokens and medals by publishing original works by members, and by reprinting old works not readily available to present day collectors.