WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM JULY 19, 2015

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New subscribers this week include: Gregory Field, Hugo Vanhoudt, and William Charton. Welcome aboard! We now have 1,852 subscribers.

This week we open with NBS events at the ANA convention and reminders of three upcoming numismatic literature sale closing dates, a catalog fixed price list, three new books and one review.

Other topics include the earliest female employees in the U.S. Mint, the Three Hours for Lunch Club Medal, the new National Numismatic Collection exhibit at the Smithsonian, coin designer Bela Lyon Pratt, George Cruikshank's notes, the greatest swindle of all time, and coins recovered in a raid on ISIS.

To learn more about Abel Buell, the Otis B. Wight Collection, Wurzbach-Tannenberg’s medal cabinet, a medal made of soap, the 1836 pattern gold dollar, Dawson City, Y.T. gold bars, Isle of Man coins, the paper money art of Victor Dubreuil, blood money, Guano bonds and the Envoy Extraordinaire and Minister Plenipotentiary of Peru, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum



Wayne Homren, Editor

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