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WAYNE'S NUMISMATIC DIARY: JULY 25, 2021Tuesday, July 20, 2021 was not only the anniversary of the first moon landing, it was the night of the latest dinner meeting of my Northern Virginia numismatic social group, Nummis Nova. Mike Packard was our host at a familiar location - The Epositos Restaurant, a nice little Italian place in Fairfax, VA. I arrived early to spot Tom Kays entering the restaurant. My phone rang and I learned my guest had arrived, too. Elsewhere in the parking lot was CoinWeek editor Charles Morgan. We chatted for a bit and went inside to find Tom and Dave Schenkman already seated at our table. Before long there were ten of us in all - me, Charles, Tom, Dave, Mike, Eric Schena, Jon Radel, Steve Bishop, Julian Leidman and Roger Burdette. We had a number of exhibits which were passed around the table or placed on a nearby empty table. Among those two big to pass around were a Numismatic Literary Guild scrapbook displayed by Charles, who is that group's new Executive Director as well as an incoming member of the American Numismatic Association Board of Governors. Other large-scale items included two big bank ledgers and Jon Radel's plastic tub full of large bronze Finnish art medals. 
Housatonic Bank Cash Book (lent by Eric Schena) 
Union Bank Ledger (lent by Wayne Homren) The ledgers had recently been returned to me by the Newman Numismatic Portal after having been scanned. Here are photos I'd taken prior to the meeting. Eric lent to NNP a massive volume which records daily cash transactions for the Housatonic Bank of Stockbridge, MA from September 18, 1862 to September 23, 1864. I lent a volume I purchased in Pittsburgh and believe to be from the Union Bank of Pittsburgh. The ledger records transactions from 1860 to 1871.
Numismatic Ephemera 
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Printing Press Medals 
Laurens Janzoon Coster medal 
Nuremberg Printing Press medal 
Ratisbon Typesetting Medal Dave writes:
"All are silver. The one from the Netherlands depicts Laurens Janzoon Coster, who some credit with the invention. Interestingly, the
More From Dave Schenkman 
Dave writes: "Here's an embossed shell card I recently purchased. Bowers lists it as NY-840, from Brewster's Station, New York in his catalog of these tokens. "And finally, a note from the Wheeling College Bank, It is the only note from West Virginia listed in the Schingoethe catalog of college currency; this is the note pictured in the catalog." 
Longfellow Plaque 
Rainbow Toned 1887 Morgan Dollar 
'Til next time.
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