A co-worker of mine has a need for a list of all (or most) bi-metallic coins currently being issued throughout the world for circulation, not including the NCLT (non circulating legal tender) coins. Do you or any of your E-Sylum readers know of such as list, or a reasonably quick internet site where I could find such a list? This would not be a single alloy of 2 metals, but rather 2 separate metals, as in a center of one metal or alloy plus a ring of another, or even clad coins too. Thanks.

The first 21 Ford sale catalogs were hard bound by Stack’s and sold at $95.00 each. The most recent three sales are hard bound by Stacks-Bowers and are being sold at $50.00 each. The main difference seems to be that the earlier hardbounds have sewn bindings, while the current ones have so-called “perfect” bindings, which are cheaper to produce but less durable in use. Time will tell which bindings are the better product.

The Bowers & Merena hardbounds are sewn up to the Sussex sale in 1990 except for Taylor sale. Thereafter they are perfect bound except for Frontenac which is sewn. So far they have held together, but next time I open Taylor it will be very carefully.

Does anyone have the following in their library? I'm looking for information from S. K. Hartzfeld's, fourth auction sale, March 14, 1879 in Philadelphia. If so, could you look up the Goloid Metric Dollar and let me know the page/lot number and the date on the coin?

I ordered the Prince George Christening £5 coin for a friend who is an Anglophile and Royal watcher. I am sure she will be quite pleased. It was posted from Wales on the 6th and arrived here the 15th.

So the first question is "Who's that riding the horse on the 1900 Washington-Lafayette dollar?" No dice – it's Lafayette.

So my nomination for the EARLIEST US coin with the same President on both sides is: the 1916 and 1917 McKinley dollars. They have McKinley's bust on the obverse, and the statue of McKinley in the Niles, Ohio memorial on the reverse.

I have Wong’s book. Got one in 1996 when it was published. Reviewed it at the time in Australasian Coin & Banknote. One dealer in Australia was selling copies as I recall. It's a brilliant, scholarly book. Best treatment of Japanese occupation issues I have come across and the illustrations are superb. It is translated from the Chinese in an English that is somewhat of British colonial vintage.

Here is an item listed on eBay. I have seen some wild ones that I had to question if they were serious, this appears to be serious. She has other items listed that are interesting to read.