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LOOSE CHANGE: DECEMBER 30, 2018Here are some additional items I came across in the media this week that may be of interest. -Editor Mormon Church Depression Scrip Bank Note Reporter published a nice short article by Neil Shafer about the depression scrip of the Mormon Church. -Editor  Money substitutes, such as this piece and a host of others, served the public by providing a circulating medium when banks all over were closed. The stamp scrip idea was used in many areas around the country. At times it worked well, but at other times it was not so successful. Apparently it was accepted well enough in Salt Lake City as evidenced by the stamps covering the entire back of this certificate. To read the complete article, see: Royal Canadian Mint Peace and Liberty Medal The Royal Canadian Mint has issued an ultra-high relief medal featuring designs from from lead engravers of the RCM and U.S. Mint. Here's a story from Canadian Coin News. -Editor  The 2019-dated “Peace and Liberty” medal featuring a reverse design by retired Royal Canadian Mint Senior Engraver Susan Taylor and an obverse design by 12th Chief Engraver of the U.S. Mint John Mercanti was recently released. Taylor is the winner of the 2016 American Medal of the Year Award and the designer of the International Art Medal Federation 2018 Congress medal. Mercanti is known for his designing more coins and medals than any other designer in U.S. Mint history; this includes the “American Eagle” silver dollar reverse. To read the complete article, see: Royal Mail Withdraws D-Day Stamp Arthur Shippee passed along this BBC News piece about a design snafu with the Royal Mail. This sort of thing happens all too often. Who's checking the work of coin, stamp and paper money designers? The internet makes it all too easy to very quickly find totally wrong information. -Editor  Royal Mail has withdrawn a stamp design marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day - after BBC News pointed out it showed US troops landing in what was Dutch New Guinea, nearly 8,500 miles from France. The stamp was due to be released next year in a "Best of British" collection. Captioned "Allied soldiers and medics wade ashore", it was said to depict the Normandy landings but was actually taken in what is modern-day Indonesia. People who saw the error in a social media preview called it "embarrassing". The image appears on the American National WWII Museum website, attributed to the US Coast Guard, and is said to show troops carrying stretchers from a landing craft at Sarmi, Dutch New Guinea on 17 May 1944. 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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