JOURNAL OF EAST ASIAN NUMISMATICS #19

In this issue, we have an extremely interesting article by our editor on the coin rubbing book of Howard Franklin Bowker during his stay in the far east from the 1920s to the 1930's. Bowker was in Shanghai, Wuhan, Ningpo, and travel also to Korea to acquire and view many interesting Chinese and Korean cash coins and charms.

For this issue, we have the forward to the 3rd book in the series of the Medallic Memories - 100 Years of Financial History by the former ICBC chairman Jiang Jianqing. This book continues the fantastic story of financial history with his collection of medals, which has been a best seller in the Chinese financial book sector.

Our friend Thomas Ullmann writes another article for us, this time on the value of Chinese cash coins based on diaries of Ferdinand von Richthofen.

Jeff Garrett has an informative overview article on the fabulous National numismatic collection at the Smithsonian national museum of American history. The NNC holds one of the greatest numismatic collections in the world and is a wonderful resource for researchers.

We also have an article we originally published in the 1990s by our senior editor bruce smith on the discovery of the Eduard Kann's banknote collection by Andy Lustig.

We also have an interesting interview with Stephen by our friend Colin Gullberg for the chopmark club. Colin and I this March traveled to Xinzhu to visit with Stephen, which was an excellent visit to discuss new projects together. We start a series of articles with Stephen Dai of Xinzhu, he is a renowned expert in Chinese silver ingots, financial history, and gold ingots. He has written many books on this area, and we will also have two book reviews on Chinese gold policy and gold ingots

Our German correspondent Oliver Strahl gives us a detailed report of the effects of COVID 19 in numismatics.

From this issue, we will start a series of articles with a license from NGC by David Vagi, a world-famous ancient coins expert, researcher, and director of NGC Ancients. We hope our readers can gain knowledge of the fabulous history of ancient coins from David's articles.

We also have an interesting article by Mark Lovmo on the fifth republic inauguration commemorative coins. Mark and I visited leading Korean numismatic company Hwadong last July in Seoul, as he continues his work on the Korea numismatics. We hope to have a book project in the future in this interesting area to reveal new information on Korean numismatics.

PCGS's Jay Turner has an informative article on the special striking of British commonwealth coins. We hope there is something interesting for everyone in this issue and look forward to meeting everyone again in the future.

Starting September, we will start the 3rd survey to select the Top Chinese coins for the 3rd edition of Top Chinese Coins. Like the first survey, we will select gold, silver, and copper coins. The survey period will be September 2020 to December 2020, and we expect to have the 3rd edition of Top Chinese Coins by the Fall of 2021.

To read the complete issue, see:
The Nineteenth Issue of JEAN (https://issuu.com/jeandigitala1/docs/jean_19)

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
JOURNAL OF EAST ASIAN NUMISMATICS #18 (https://www.coinbooks.org/v23/esylum_v23n19a04.html)

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