"Because of the article in the July 31st issue of The E-Sylum, I am confessing to not cashing a Treasurer of the U.S. check. The check No. 99,923,506 for $1.00 is dated 10/19/73 and directly below the date is CCDOLLAR. The $1.00 is the excess over the minimum bid price for an 1884 CC silver dollar which I still have. Therefore I have a silver and a paper Carson City dollar."

Thank you! This is great numismatic ephemera. -Editor

"I just did some lucky Google searching and located some information about this sale. There is an interesting 2008 post about it by a Collectors Universe forum member named "firstmint"."

Thanks - nice find! The Newman Portal has at least eight references to Joseph Reakirt, so this may be a ripe topic for someone to further research. -Editor

"Thanks for highlighting the counterstamped Chinese coin. Below is my reply to Ted Puls who researched and submitted the attribution for the coin:

"Thanks Ted! I have forwarded your research information to the buyer of the counterstamped coin."

"As a kid in small-town New Zealand I devoured every coin book our local public library had - in the days when libraries (a) had and (b) retained decent book stocks for a reasonable length of time. A favourite, borrowed many times over, was Catalog of the World's Most Popular Coins by Reinfeld and Hobson. Several decades later I acquired, for my own library, examples of numerous titles that I'd read in those early years, including Reinfeld's Catalog. Even now I just have to open it to be transported back almost 50 years to a time when almost everything in it was a new discovery for me."

"Last week I asked the question, What novel uses Reinfeld quotes to introduce several chapters? There was no answer from readers.

"Ronald Malcom was a CIA agent who analyzed plots of mystery and spy novels. He was out to lunch one day when gunmen invaded the office and killed everyone there. He went into hiding, not knowing who he could trust.

"This is the premise for Six Days of the Condor, a 1974 novel by James Grady. Believing that six days was too intense, it was made into a 1975 movie as Three Days of the Condor, directed by Sydney Pollack.

"I wanted to see a copy to confirm the Reinfeld quotes. My local branch library told me the nearest copy was more than sixty miles away. That means there was no available copy within the Minneapolis / St. Paul metropolitan area. I did not make the trip.

"Now that you know the title, who can come up with the quotes?"

I borrowed an online copy of the book for an hour through the Internet Archive's controlled lending program. While every chapter does begin with a quote, only five are from Fred Reinfeld. He's in good company - others quoted include Napoleon and Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Dwight Eisenhower. -Editor

"Faulty execution of a winning combination has lost many a game on the very brink of victory. In such cases a player sees the winning idea, plays the winning sacrifice and then inverts the order of his follow-up moves or misses the clinching point of his combination."

-Fred Reinfeld, The Complete Chess Course

"I have treated this game in great detail because I think it is important for the student to see what he's up against, and how he ought to go about solving the problems of practical play. You may not be able to play the defense and counterattack this well, but the game sets a worthwhile goal for you to achieve: how to fight back in a position where our opponent has greater mobility and better prospects."

-Fred Reinfeld, The Complete Chess Course

"The quality control at the mint in 1793 was a lot better than in following years. Errors in that first year are very rare. The S11a that is being sold by Sullivan was the second off center in my sale. The first was an S10 that was also 10% off center, but was a problem free coin. There was also an S6 in XF 45 that was double struck with a plain edge.

"The best error by far of 1793 is an obverse brockage of an S8 or S9. This coin was my white whale that I had wanted for years, but the owner, a guy who went to my high school, would never consider selling."

Thank you. Great coins. -Editor

"A volume of coinage dies for the Denver Mint from 1926 to at least 1938 has been missing for several decades. It is possible the rectangular book is sitting in a second hand book shop, or has found its way to a book collection. Readers are asked to be on the lookout for a maroon and black volume with gold lettering similar to the above photo, but without the blue damage at lower left. It will have the identical form number 864 and title as the illustration.

"If found, it can be repatriated confidentially."

Be on the lookout, bibliophiles! -Editor

"Can a reader please direct me to a resource that lists the names, tribes & dates of the recipients of Indian Peace Medals? Thanks! "

I'm not sure if there is any ONE source for this information. What are readers aware of? Thanks. -Editor