More on the Good Samaritan Shilling
Alan Weinberg writes:
The British Museum has a Good Samaritan silver shilling in their cabinet that grades Fair - About Good condition - smooth clean wear, no damage - so someone went to a lot of trouble to make this "fabrication" look legitimate. I believe the pedigree is the Pembroke Collection going back to the early 1800's.
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
BOOK REVIEW: THE SECRET OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN SHILLING
(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n30a05.html)
Australian Ballet Coin
P.K. Saha forwarded this image of a new coin commemorating 50 years of the Australian ballet. I like it... makes me want to dance...
How Publishers Handle Errata These Days
Regarding the missing sections of the Standard Catalog of World Coins 1901-2000 being published online, Ken Berger writes:
Years ago a decent publisher would have supplied the purchasers of the book with an addendum free of charge for the missing sections (especially with such major sections missing). By requiring the purchaser to download files, the publisher saves the expense of printing and mailing the missing sections and instead shifts the burden (& the expense) to the purchaser. It may have been a true error on the publisher's part but I can see it becoming more & more common since it saves the publisher money in the long run.
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: JULY 15, 2012: Missing Sections of SCWC 1901-2000
(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n30a08.html)
Errors in the July 15, 2012 Issue
Joe Boling writes:
Thian's name is misspelled twice in the Wilsons' review (first two instances - Thain). Their reference to the AGO as the Attorney General's Office should be Adjutant General's Office. You might want to fix those in your archive.
Oops! I should have caught the Thian typos. We'll fix the archive. Thanks.
-Editor
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
BOOK REVIEW: HISTORY OF COLLECTING CONFEDERATE STATES PAPER MONEY
(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n30a04.html)
Jim Duncan writes:
The Crusader gold pieces - should they be DINARS and parts? They are called both dinaR and dinaL in the press report - mis-print maybe. (Dinal certainly isn't in Frey - who I trust).
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
CRUSADERS' GOLD COIN HOARD FOUND IN ISRAEL
(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n30a16.html)
Posing Stands
Last week I asked about the photographer's posing stand seen in the image with Monroeville Dickeson. Nick Graver writes:
Here is a beautiful illustration of a posing stand, but they have the head clamp turned on end (vertical) rather than in the position of use, grasping a subject's head behind the ears.
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
MORE ON MONTROVILLE DICKESON
(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n30a07.html)
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