"As always, enjoyed the latest issue of The E-Sylum. However, the current issue was excelled, filled with very interesting items. You have provided some interesting books to pursue in this very toxic period.

"Your lead article was on Würzburg, Germany was interesting. I assume you know that Koenig und Bauer, also known as Kobau Giori, or simply KOBAU, the manufacturer of the currency printing presses for virtually the entire world are headquartered in that city.

"When I was BEP Director, K & B was family run.

"There is — or was, a large US military base just outside of the city of Würzburg.

"So sorry to note that Barb Gregory is relinquishing the helm of The Numismatist. What Barb did with the magazine is something that would even inspire Tina Brown. The cost of membership in the ANA, whatever it was or currently is, is reaped by receiving The Numismatist. I was only with ANA for four months, when Neil Harris resigned and Barb Gregory, who was really the editor, was one of a narrow, but strong list of candidates to succeed Neil. In the Cincinnati Convention (1988) board meeting, Gov. David Ganz mercifully and artfully resolved the issue by making a motion to appoint Barb editor, a motion that was quickly accepted by President Steve Taylor and unanimously voted in favor by the board. Not many months later increasing the size of the magazine from the pocket size to its current size required some careful politicking. Governor Ed Rochette, a previous editor, was our chief lobbyist.

"Like so many, I have time to read and enjoy many of the aspects of our hobby during this time of self-isolation. My wife spends time making masks for our surgeon son-in-law."

"I don't think Tatham envelopes are very scarce. I have probably seen a hundred of them in collections I have reviewed in the past dozen years. I put a few examples on a scanner and took an image. There are probably other sizes, shapes and text."

"Yes, I have some Littleton envelopes along with my Tatham envelopes. In recent years, Littleton has issued coins in clear plastic packets. I have cut open hundreds of those but I did not save the packaging."

"On ExLibris-L, Alexandra Wingate shared a link for the Marteau Early 18th Century Currency Converter. This provides a conversion between currencies of 22 states, and their denominations.

One can enter an amount, for example £ 5 10s 6d (English) and see that the conversion to French currency is 73 livres 13 sols tournois 4 deniers (mostly for the early 18th century or the end of the 17th). At the bottom of the screen one can see, in this example, that the general exchange rate was £3 English to 40 French livres.

This is part of the Marteau Economic History Platform, which also includes a short bibliography. It doesn't address individual coins."

"My book on the history of Whitman's coin folders and albums goes to layout this month, the person who performs this task also working from home as of this week. I still have to scan a few dozen additional Bookshelf albums from my collection, but she'll be working on other chapters until this last task is complete. I've lost track of the number of images involved, but it certainly will set a record for any of my books. Being at home has given me a little more time to finish the scanning and writing of captions, since I'm saving the round-trip commute three days each week, and I thus get started earlier in the evening. On those days when I do go to work I arrive in half the usual time, as there are no traffic delays beyond the occasional construction site.

"Last year The E-Sylum included my appeal to obtain or, at least, examine a complete run of the rare Whitman dealer newsletter, Coin Supply Merchandiser. It seems that Ken Bressett, who was editor for most of its run 1960-74, has the only known complete set. He generously loaned me these newsletters, and I spent many hours scanning them at 300 dpi. They are invaluable for my own research and for the photos they include that will be reproduced in my book. With Ken's permission, I sent these scans to Len Augsburger for inclusion on the Newman Numismatic Portal."

"I saw that you posted the Table of Contents for AJN, 31 on your site. Please note that my essay has some mistakes, omissions, and jumbled bibliography. So, Len Augsburger kindly posted my errata list here:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/581146 ."

"I came across another gem from the Appleton-Century Spanish-English Dictionary, 1941. What of 5 cents before such coins were made of nickel? Half real or just plain half. (That is to say "media real" or just plain "media".) Put that in your fake news pipe and smoke it, no?"

"I saw the SPMC weekly newsletter and one of the links was about Nazi counterfeiting in WWII. I thought readers might enjoy it. I saw the movie The Counterfeiters and own one of the Bernard counterfeits. I'll print out this article and read it at my leisure."

"To see Bowers and Ruddy Galleries on screen find the NIGHT OF THE COMET movie and go 1:35 minutes into the film!"