WAYNE'S NUMISMATIC DIARY: AUGUST 20, 2017

2017 Denver ANA Badge and Ribbons
I didn't manage to finish my diary last week, so here goes. First, a few items to finish out my Denver ANA diary. Here's my badge and ribbons. I was stunned when I received my notice that I was a 25-year member. I'd joined back when I'd gotten out of college and had no idea so much time had passed. It's a Participation Trophy for not having quit or died yet, but I wear it proudly.

I'm even prouder of the other two -the Goodfellow award is for being a convention chairman, a job I held for the 2004 Pittsburgh show. Having met Glenn Smedley back around 1980 in a visit to ANA headquarters in Colorado Springs, I was was quite happy to receive that a number of years later.

Levick Plates

While walking from the meeting rooms back to the bourse one day I ran into Jim Neiswnter and Jan Valentine of Colorado Springs. Jim had a present for me - a color recreation of the famous plate of 1793 Large Cents by J.N.T.Levick in the April 1869 issue of the American Journal of Numismatics.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
ARTICLE EXPLORES THE 1869 AJN LEVICK PLATE OF 1793 CENTS (http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v11n34a07.html)

Denver Show Ephemera
Here are a couple items I picked up while at the show. The first is a handout from Don Kagin's table about the Nova Constellatio Quint pattern on display there. The second item is from the Heritage table, describing Continental Dollars from the Resolute collection (displayed over at the NGC booth).

August 2017 Nummis Nova
The Tuesday following the ANA convention (August 8, 2017) was the regular meeting of my Northern Virginia Numismatic Social group, Nummis Nova. We were actually meeting in Bowie Maryland at Jerry's Seafood, a favorite restaurant of our host Julian Leidman.

I arrived earlier than planned and was actually the first of our group to show up. I didn't have to wait long before Ron Abler, Dave Schenkman and Gene Brandenburg arrived and soon we were ordering beers in the bar. Not long after that we were seated at our table. Soon came Eric Schena, our host Julian, Steve Bishop, and my guest E-Sylum reader and contributor Chip Howell. It was a smaller group than usual due to summer vacations and the location.

Dave Schenkman brought a present for me - a copy of the 2010 booklet by Fred Holabird and Al Adams about the scrip issued by the Pigeon Roost Mining Company of Georgia. It's a well-researched and illustrated book that fleshes out an interesting aspect of the story of America's first gold rush. The complete title is GOLD! At Pigeon Roost - The Story of America's First Gold Mining Scrip. Thanks, Dave!

I'd brought for display the PCGS Education Award plaques for The E-Sylum along with the ephemera (pictured above) and books that I'd picked up at the ANA convention. I resold at cost to Eric Schena the copy of the 1991 American Numismatic Association Centennial anthology I'd purchased at the Numismatic Bibliomania Society fundraising auction.

Below is my other purchase from the NBS sale, a copy of the published Douglas manuscript of New Jersey Coppers (a keeper) and a piece of ANA ephemera not yet pictured, a brochure for the book 1792 Birth of a Nation's Coinage.

Here are some photos.

Eric Schena and Dave Schenkman

Julian Leidman and Dave Brandenburg (perusing one of my books)

Chip Howell's bag of Presidential dollars

Several of us enjoyed the restaurant's specialty, the Crab Bomb. I had the spicy version called the Firecracker. It was an excellent meal and it was no surprise that the place was quite full on a Tuesday night.

Baltimore B-Notes

Chip brought for me some circulated Baltimore B-Notes, a local alternative currency.

To read the earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE ON LOCAL CURRENCY (http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n48a16.html)
BALTIMORE BNOTE SECOND SERIES ISSUED (http://cbt.coinbooks.org/esylum_v19n19a31.html)

Steve's Beauties
We can always seem to count on Steve Bishop to bring some nice coins. He provided these images. Thanks!

Vermeil Medals
Ron, Chip and I were the last to leave and had a good conversation on a number of topics, including Wikipedia and Ron's book on Centennial Medals. A story about his purchase of a medal that turned out to be a true rarity led to a discussion of an informal hiererachy of award medal classification that is seen a lot in 19th century award competitions:

1. gold
2. gold-plated silver
3. silver
4. silver-plated bronze or copper
5. bronze

We learned a new term from Ron Abler. He writes:

Chip later provided some Wikipedia definitions.

At my request, Dick Johnson's Vocabulary article for this week covers the term. See the article elsewhere in this issue for more information.

To read the complete articles, see:
Silver-gilt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver-gilt#Vermeil)
vermeil (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vermeil#Noun)

Where's George

Later in the week I got around to recording and respending a dollar bill I'd come across with a "Where's George" stamp. The www.wheresgeorge.com web site allows users to track the local of bills as recorded by people what have come into contact with them in the course of daily commerce.

To read the earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
WHERE'S GEORGE (http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v06n02a17.html)
WHERE'S GEORGE (http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v07n07a14.html)

That's all for this time.

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