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NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: DECEMBER 2, 2018Buying Coins From Joe Mitula When I was a youngster, in the mid to late 1950s, my mother would take me to the Mitula Coin and Stamp Company in downtown Houston. My parents generously funded my early collecting. We were waited on by Mr. Bingham who I believe was Mr. Mitula’s son in law. We built, a few coins at a time, uncirculated short sets of Mercury dimes, Washington quarters and Liberty Walking halves, and complete sets of Jefferson nickels, Roosevelt dimes and Franklin halves. I still have all but the Washington quarter set. As I remember, we never looked at earlier coins. I occasionally think...what if I’d collected earlier coins by type? Seated and Barber coinage. Oh well.. If I hit the lotto I'll hire a Mad Scientist to build us that Time Machine to go back and scoop up all the numismatic bargains we passed by over the years. -Editor To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: Another End of Pitt Token
 London, Piccadilly, London Corresponding Society, Skidmore’s mule Halfpenny, man hanging from gallows, cap of Liberty and obelisk, rev. lcs cypher, edge grained, 11.62g/6h (DH 290). To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: On the Warhol-Signed Two Dollar Bill The post mark is Columbus, OH Livingston STA... Marc Ricard writes: The 1976 postmark is from the Livingston Station USPS office in Franklin, Ohio, just outside of Columbus. The postmark states "Columbus Ohio Livingston Station" 1976. There is a passport office at that location as well. So if Andy signed it on-site, perhaps a visit into the deep, dark closets of that location would produce a long-lost Warhol original?? Thanks to Ken Spindler of San Diego, CA who also identified Livingston Station. Bruce Perdue supplied the above close-up image. OK - we have a consensus. As an exercise for the reader or a future art historian, what event could have brought Andy Warhol to that place on that date? As a Pittsburgh native I know he grew up there and had close relatives in Pittsburgh; was there a branch of the Warhola family over in Ohio? Or was this note signed after the fact? The dollar sign to the left of the signature covers the postage stamp and cancellation. Interesting mystery... -Editor  To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: George H.W. Bush May George H.W. Bush rest in peace. This picture is of Bush on the campaign trail in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire on February 13, 1988, with Andrew Bowers, age 8 (today you can find Andrew at Stack’s Bowers Galleries at 123 West 57th Street, New York City). Great photo! -Editor Coming to Your Coin Club: The Queen As a gag, I circulated this e-mail to the membership of San Diego's International Numismatic Society, of which I am president, after I spotted the book about QE II's numismatic collection in last week's E-Sylum. I've got a great idea who to ask to be our January 2019 banquet speaker!
The Royal Collection is famous as one of the finest art collections in the world, but less well known are its coins, medals and banknotes, which include many extremely rare pieces. This book, published by Spink in association with Royal Collection Trust... I'm going to ask Queen Elizabeth II to come and show us her numismatic collection! Who knew? I'm sure she'll be impressed when I tell her we'll pay not only for her dinner, at Marie Callendar's in La Mesa, but also that of her date. Presumably, the Duke of Edinburgh. They can't eat that much, at their ages (92 and 97). Great idea! -Editor To read the earlier E-Sylum 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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