While researching a Colonial paper item, I noticed a Thos. Machin signature and am trying to determine whether it belonged to the well-known Thomas Machin. Do any E-Sylum readers have any documents with his signature I can view for comparison?

I have been trying to locate two movies/TV shows where coins were a part of the plot.

One was a foreign film where they were after a counterfeiter of Chinese 'Cash' coins. There was a scene where they point to a package of dies of same.

I located a story in: Matlock 'The Thief Pt1 & Pt2', 1988 Season 3 Disc 4; where Matlock takes his fee of $100,000 in coins. Matlock also talks 'coins' to a coin dealer. The defense resolves around a Proof coin as evidence of who is actually guilty. Not quite as I remembered it so there may be another Matlock episode dealing with coins again.

I just discovered your 2010 posting in The E-Sylum about the New England Numismatic and Archaeological Society. The query was from Dave Hirt. As the archivist here at the Phillips Library, I am cataloging manuscripts and I came across some records for the Society. They are dated 1865 to 1878 and consist of the constitution, bylaws, correspondence and a list of donations and purchases. None of this is digitized. If anyone are interested in examining it, we have a Reading Room open to the public on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10:00am to 4:30pm in our temporary location in Peabody, MA. Please see our website (www.pem.org/library) for directions.