"People would disagree about Mr. Frazier having lived in parts of three centuries. That's because he died two months before the generally accepted starting date of the 21st century on January 1, 2001.

"Robert L. Hendershott (1898-2004) did achieve that amazing feat – John Wilson introduced me to him in 2002. However, my copy of his book on the 1904 St.Louis World's Fair, published in 1994, was signed by him that year to another collector, when he was a mere nonagenarian. Mr. Hendershott knew whereof he spoke, having attended the fair in person with his father."

"I moderate a Facebook group called Fake coin / bank note alert - Lanka.

"Every other day the group gets such an advert with "Undetectable Counterfeit Money". I report it to Facebook as an unauthorized Sale/Other and Facebook automatically deletes it. Not sure why Facebook does not auto-detect themselves and delete/ban them. Getting sick and tired of that SPAM.

"Good you did not click on site."

"I too tip with $2 notes and have a funny story.

"I was in a local chili parlor (Skyline for Cincinnati aficionados) and tipped the young lady with $2's. She proceeded to ask me if they were real. I replied that they were not and that I was getting really good at making them. I offered to "prove it" to her. I had a sheet of 36 $2's in the trunk of my car which I retrieved to show to her. I unrolled the sheet and everyone working there stopped what they were doing and stared at the sheet. The manager soon got aggravated that nothing was getting done and I had to fess up. It was fun while it lasted......."

You and Woz would be great pals! -Editor

"The recent article in The E-Sylum about error coins prompted me to rearrange my publications stream. I've wanted to do a piece on ancient error coins because they're often ignored as an opportunity for research.

"It may be that all ancient coins look like error coins to most people. They're not round and they're usually struck off-center. However, once you spot an ancient error-coin, it gives you the same opportunity to learn about manufacturing methods as modern errors.

"So, I moved the article to the head of the list, thanks to the E-Sylum contributors.

"The coin I've selected has witness marks that reveal the catastrophic failure of a die as it happened. It may be one of the few to do this. The coin gives us insight in the way mint workers extended die-life. It certainly demonstrates that they were paying careful attention to their work.

"The article also suggests that Photoshop Editing Software has potential as an analytical tool for Numismatic research."

Excellent, well-illustrated article. I encourage everyone to read it. As it happens, we have a nice article on ancient errors elsewhere in this issue. -Editor

Speaking of errors, Pete Smith pointed out that last week I somehow duplicated the image of the Washington Roman Head Cent from the Syd Martin collection. Our webmaster Bruce Purdue has corrected our article archive. Thanks, guys. Here's the missing image. -Editor