WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM FEBRUARY 7, 2016

New subscribers this week include: Terry Zimmerman, Kevin Vinton, Doris Black, Michael Knight, Carl Feldman and Bill Liatys. We now have 1,932 subscribers.

This week we open with updates from numismatic literature dealers Bryce Brown and Fred Lake, two new books, an update from the Newman Numismatic Portal, and word of the passing of two numismatic authors and bibliophiles.

Other topics include the U.S. Mint Retirement medal, recoinage, coin jewelry, the Old San Francisco Mint, the 1815 Half Eagle, a Nobel Prize in Chemistry medal, toy money, the Trial of the Pyx, and the dark secret of the Highland Mint.

To learn more about the Queen’s Remembrancer, Colonel Mason’s oyster-can full of California gold, the U.S. Mint's annual report, Frank Gasparro, H. Dudley Coleman, G. G. Wilkins, Isaac Francis Wood, skull coins, the Liberty Loan Bond of 1917 and Banksy's £10 “Di-faced” banknote, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum

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