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V25 2022 INDEX E-SYLUM ARCHIVE SPINK INSIDER WINTER 2022The Winter 2022 issue of the SPINK Insider has been published. The London firm's house organ is available in print form as well as a free download. Great cover photo and a number of interesting articles. The articles cover a wide range of numismatics, including coins, medals, paper money and finds by metal detectorists and mudlarks. CONTENTS
Forthcoming Events London News
The Story Behind the Stamp
Spotlight on Collecting: Whisky
Searching for the Next Henry III Gold Penny
A Day in the Field
Northern Ireland Banknotes: are they a threatened species?
Trick of the Light
Engraving is More than Banknotes and Stamps
The Civil War Hoard and Hunting its History with Friends
Mudlarking on the Thames
Tiny Traces: African and Asian Children at London's Foundling Hospital
Return to Waterloo
Castellum Editions
Britain's ‘First' Memorial Coins
1666 and All That
The Man Behind the Medal Insider Travel: the Bay of Naples and Pompeii One of the articles could portend a new wrinkle in the numismatic business - or not. New technologies often find their way into numismatics sooner or later, as we've seen with digital photography, internet auctions, physical bitcoins and recently non-fungible tokens or NFTs. SPINK is rolling out a Digital Ownership Token (Fusion DOT) to associate ownership rights with physical collectibles, in this case photographic prints. Will something like this come to the world of slabs? -Editor
A Non Fungible Token is a unique digital asset held securely via an internet technology called a blockchain – a system of recording information in a way that makes it virtually impossible to change, hack, or cheat. The NFT market has proved attractive and exciting among a new generation of collectors and traders alike, with NFTs traded on various marketplaces and their growth easily tracked. They have not been without their critics however, with many writing them off as immaterial playthings of no significance or longevity. But what if NFTs were tied to a physical item and gave unique and unquestionable rights to this item? This is what a Fusion DOT (Digital Ownership Token) intends to do by bridging the gap between the material and immaterial by providing inherently secure ownership held on the blockchain. Spink is proud to offer such Fusion DOTs at auction, having already held two e-Auctions of Photographic Fusion DOTs, with a third to follow this December, beginning 1st December and closing on 25th December. Part Two of the ‘Live From Abbey Road' Photographic Fusion DOT e-Auction offers unique images of thirteen well-known musicians performing to a private audience at one of the world's most famous recording studios, Abbey Road. Each lot comprises a high quality digital image, a high quality physical print of the image alongside any associated negatives, copyright over the image and a unique, fusion DOT proving rights and ownership over the image in any form and use which can be collected and cherished or traded on the exciting NFT marketplace.
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Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@gmail.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum All Rights Reserved. NBS Home Page Contact the NBS webmaster 
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