WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM APRIL 9, 2017

First, my apologies to any readers who have sent me articles or submissions that haven't made it into our publication yet. I've accumulated a backlog, which I dipped into this week, and still have a number of items I may not be able to get to. But please do keep sending me whatever you find of interest - I get the best content from readers like you.

This week several of our new subscribers are NBS members. I worked with our Secretary-Treasurer Terry White and added everyone he had an email address for who wasn't already an E-Sylum subscriber. Welcome aboard! We now have 3,103 subscribers. Let me know if we've added an address in error - the computers may not recognize that addresses in upper/lower case are identical.

Thank you for reading The E-Sylum. If you enjoy it, please send me the email addresses of friends you think may enjoy it as well and I'll send them a subscription with your compliments. Contact me at whomren@gmail.com anytime regarding your subscription, or questions, comments or suggestions about our content.

This week we open with an April Fools discussion, more highlights of the upcoming Kolbe & Fanning sale, a new book and one book review. Other topics this week include an important milestone and some great new content for the Newman Numismatic Portal, the Pogue collection, coins found at Jamestown and on Cape Cod, chopmarked coins, and some new banknotes.

To learn more about personal tokens and medals of American numismatists, De La Rue color samples, test bank notes, astronomer Ambrose Swasey, William Friesner, Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatski, plaquettes, the Scott Stamp & Coin Company, the Starving Time, coins for the dead, Compugrade, and the U.S. Treasury Department Laundry, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum

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