I contacted Dick Johnson on the Monday after the item about his Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology appeared in The E-Sylum. Then I went down to my Bay House for awhile and came back on Friday afternoon. The draft was sitting in my post office box.

After just a brief scan of the pages, I decided that I can delete 90% of the entries in my personal document about numismatic and related words and terms, except for some foreign words and terms that are relevant to my Southeast Asian numismatic pursuits.

Dick has done a masterful job already, and the tome is not even complete! I am very much looking forward to the final version!!!!!

Thanks for the kind words, Howard. I have received similar comments from the first who have received their copies.