WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM MAY 7, 2017

New subscribers this week include: Jan Valentine, courtesy of Jim Neiswinte; Keemboh Alcaraz, Joao Almeida, Aritz Arantzegi Areitio, Minor W Anderson, Bill Bone, Steven Bron, Andrew Briton, Ron Caris, Andres Collazosm, Kamil Coskun, Ken Denham, Gunter Gerstner, Mario Grana, Jerry Hook, Matija Horvat, Mohamed Ibrahim, Miskell John, Bharat Kadge, Cheang Wai Keong, Werner Kober, Joseph Kutta, Yale Lansky, Mark Lee, Calum McLean, Anton Menshikov, Carlos Mariano, Frederic Minguet, Rafal Nogowczyk, Alexey Novikov, Calogero Saieva, Monique Salmon, Alexey Semakov, Simon Sui, Adam Work, and Hyunchul Yoo.

Welcome aboard! We now have 3,224 subscribers. Many of our new subscribers were kindly referred to us by Owen Linzmayer of San Francisco, CA, publisher of The Banknote Book. See the article later in this issue for more information on Owen's book.

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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 four new books, one revised book, recollections on the Red Book, and new tools for identifying Roman coins and locating coins in the Virgil Brand collection ledgers.

Other topics this week include Victor Brenner's 1895 dollar coin design, Apollo 11 coin design, Bermuda banknotes, banknote maven CM Nielsen, auction highlights, the Lord St. Oswald 1794 dollar, Guy Fawkes, and the butterfly silver niobium coin.

To learn more about diaper dies, the polo pound, tinnies, calendar medals, curved coins, Philippine guerrilla notes, the Aurelian Aureus, bit math, Standard Silver patterns, the Pistrucci Waterloo medal, and the Imperial Government of Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum

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