WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM OCTOBER 15, 2017

New subscribers this week include: Kevin Thompkins of Nashville, TN, courtesy of Bob Hurst; Dan Hansen of the Minnesota Historical Society, courtesy of Pete Smith; Rich Ponder, courtesy of Chip Howell; Quentin Christensen, Braydon Ballow, Bill Dancy, and M. Wallace. Welcome aboard! We now have 3,298 subscribers. Can we hit 3,300 next week?

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 some great results for Kolbe & Fanning sale #147, four new books, an ANS forum on numismatic digitization and multiple updates from the Newman Numismatic Portal.

Other topics this week include counterfeit detection, Coin Galleries, The American Plantation token, the 1820 North West Company token, U.S. Mint Directors, coin font design, dealer Leo Hamburger, sculptor Leroy Transfield, Continental Dollars, the Pony Express race gold medal, and Liberty Dollars.

To learn more about the first edition Blue Book, Friedberg’s Paper Money of the U.S., coins of Uruguay, the Columbian Anacreontic Society, the Monnaie de Paris, American Bank Note Company collages, the J.S.G. Boggs One Euro note, the First Transatlantic Flight medal, pre-banking bon scrip, Beaver Bills and galvano reliefs, read on.

NOTE: Your Editor will be traveling next week, so that issue of The E-Sylum may be delayed or shortened. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum

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