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IN OTHER NEWS: FEBRUARY 25, 2018Here are some additional items I came across in the media this week that may be of interest. -Editor
Double-Tailed Quarter Dollar Error  Nationally-known error coin dealer Fred Weinberg always brings amazing error coins with him when he travels the national coin show circuit. At the January 2018 FUN Show, Fred brought an error coin that for as hard as you look, you probably will never find in change – a double-tailed quarter. The double-tailed quarter is one of the most unusual and highly coveted mint error in the modern U.S. series. To watch the complete video, see: VIDEO: 2018 PERTH MINT COIN PREVIEW From Berlin, CoinWeek's Charles Morgan interviews Neil Vance, Group Head of Minted Products for the Perth Mint. -Editor
To watch the complete video, see: Team Given Wrong Gold Medals at Olympics To read the complete article, see: Promoting India's 10 Rupee Coin Dick Hanscom and Arthur Shippee sent this BBC News article about an effort in India to promote its 10 rupee coin. -Editor
 India's central bank is reckoned to have sent out hundreds of millions of text messages in the last couple of days - all part of a rearguard effort to protect the value of the Indian
currency.
Don't be too alarmed, the Indian economy isn't about to tank - not quite yet, anyway. The bank's herculean campaign is only designed to ensure the integrity of the country's humble 10 rupee coin - worth just 10 US cents or 10 UK pence. To read the complete article, see: Curating Books for the Boston Athenaeum And for the biblophiles among us, here's a great "Exit Interview" with the retiring curator of books for the Boston Athenaeum's 200-year-old library.
-Editor
 The Boston Athenaeum—a 211-year-old independent library in the center of Beacon Hill—is home to about 150,000 rare books. Some are old, and some are brand new. Some are huge, and some are tiny. Some are made of lead, some are made of shredded army uniforms, and one is, famously, made of human skin. Until recently, Stanley Ellis Cushing was in charge of all of them. Cushing began his career at the Athenaeum in 1970, right after he graduated from college. He ended up staying for 47 years—“longer than anybody else in the last hundred years or so,” he says—working as a bookbinder and conservator, then as the Chief of the Conservation Department, and finally as the first-ever Curator of Rare Books. To read the complete article, see: Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@gmail.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum All Rights Reserved. NBS Home Page Contact the NBS webmaster 
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