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V25 2022 INDEX E-SYLUM ARCHIVE LOOSE CHANGE: MARCH 13, 2022Here are some additional items in the media this week that may be of interest. -Editor An article by Ben Wallace on the NGC site examines mints of the Byzantine Empire. -Editor The Byzantine Empire existed for over a thousand years and controlled large tracts of land and a great many people. Many mints were needed to satisfy the monetary needs of this empire. In this article, we'll discuss those mints and enjoy some of the coins they produced. Sicily: Syracuse 
The above follis features an excellent portrait of the emperor Constans II (A.D. 641-688). Much of the detail on this coin is weak due to it being overstruck on an earlier follis. The reverse has a large M and the mintmark SCL below.
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Leon Saryan passed along this article from Barron's. Thanks. -Editor 
Bob R. Simpson, an oilman and co-chairman of the Texas Rangers baseball team, is offering two rare gold coins from his impressive numismatic collection for sale. A US$20 1865 Judd-452 is now available for private sale for US$5.5 million through Legend Numismatics, a New Jersey-based numismatic firm. A US$10 1863 Judd-349 gold coin will be publicly auctioned by the firm's auction arm, Legend Rare Coin Auctions, on April 28 in Schaumburg, Ill., which carries a presale estimate of US$1.25 million. Mr. Simpson, 73, was the founder and chairman of XTO Energy, which was sold to ExxonMobil in 2009 for US$41 billion. The following year, he and another Texas oil magnate, Ray Davis, led a cohort of investors in the US$593 million purchase of the Rangers.
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I came across this general article on book collecting this week, but the part that stood out to me was the name of the site - BiblioLifestyle. It's a thing, apparently. I guess we numismatic bibliophiles are just an Instagram post away from becoming Influencers. -Editor 
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An article in Barron's examines the price of nickel. -Editor 
The nickel is worth more than a dime. Nickel prices, for the metal not the coin, spiked to $100,000 per metric ton on the London Metal Exchange this past week before trading was halted. The metal had traded around $25,000 a ton before the run-up, when it cost the U.S. Mint more than five cents to make a nickel.
At $100,000 a ton, a nickel, composed of 25% nickel and 75% copper, is worth about 16 cents in metal, or
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In the Other Hobbies department, here's a piece about a Button Museum in South Carolina, including a button-covered hearse. -Editor 
Talk about unusual museums that have graced the Palmetto State over the years! We'd be remiss on this subject if we didn't include a feature here on the Button Museum, which still stands in Bishopville. Its creator, Mr. Dalton Stevens, who single-handedly earned the city the title of Button Capital of the World, was a musician and an artist. Stevens passed away in November 2016, but his Button Museum and works of button art are still in place, although the facility isn't open quite as often as it was when Stevens was still alive.
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