Regarding "By Its Cover": it is a great book, but then all of Donna Leon books are awesome! If anyone is interested in mysteries and Venice, a little on aspects of Italian culture. but always in a good read, then they should pick up a Donna Leon mystery! I've been reading them since 2003 and looking forward to May every year; May is when Ms. Leon releases her books. I literally tripped over one of her books... I was walking in a piazza in Rome near the Pantheon and stumbled over "Death at La Fenice", the first of her Brunetti mysteries. A day later I'd finished it and was hooked. Anyone that reads "By Its Cover" or any other of her books will be hooked as well.

There is a grievous error in the Coin World article on the North West Co. token which you excerpted in last week's E-Sylum. It's examples in copper which are much rarer than those in brass, not the other way around as reported. The one in Geoffrey Bell Auctions as part of the George Thomson collection -- which I catalogued -- realized $26,000 CAN. When the dust settled, that was a deserving price for a very high quality example.

The article about the "American Red Cross WWII Collector's Guide" failed to mention that Central States contributed through our book publishing grants to this book and Mark Ferguson’s "The Dollar of 1804". Central States Numismatic Society is committed to supporting numismatic publications and research through our Book Grants program as part of our Educational Mission. Grant applications for the next years program are available on our website : www.centralstates.info/grants.html/ .