"I wrote the article on the Horseman $10 design and I made that initial discovery.

"Coins have always just been a part of a bigger picture for me, and I've always loved rare books and manuscripts (and followed those markets carefully).

"I encountered Beechey in a rare book catalogue, emitted an expletive, showed it to others in the ANR office (John Pack and Frank Van Valen were probably first), then to Dave Bowers, then wrote the article.

"The "30 points of congruence" bit doesn't sound like me and I don't recognize it. But I definitely wrote several descriptions for auction catalogues that incorporated that information after the excitement of the discovery."

Congratulations on the discovery. Thanks for the confirmation! This is one of the things I love about The E-Sylum - interactions among many great people and authoritative answers from those in the know on so many interesting and varied topics. Great question, great answer. -Editor

"The theft of dimes from a truck in Philadelphia brings me back to my recent article on ballistic bags. A bag of dimes would contain 500,000 pieces with a value of $50,000. A $750,000 shipment would have been in fifteen of the ballistic bags, each weighing more than 2500 pounds.

"Without a forklift, thieves could not have lifted the pallets and bags. They must have cut through the bulletproof bags to get at the contents. Then they had to transfer the loot into more manageable containers. Apparently, they also stole garbage cans to fill with coins. The dimes scattered about the parking lot suggest they did not have an easy job making the transfer.

"My article mentioned the use of armored car delivery services who provide coins to banks. I was not aware that coins in transit are left unguarded in a parking lot overnight. However, security cameras at Walmart should provide clues. As many as six suspects were involved.

"Now, what are thieves going to do with two million loose dimes? What quantity could you spend in one transaction without arousing suspicions? If there was a way to spend a dime every minute, your return would be less than minimum wage.

"I will be watching for future developments with this story. As of Friday, April 21, no arrests had been reported."

I was curious about those buckets seen in the photo - they did not match Pete's descriptions of Mint shipping containers, and their use by the thieves makes sense. The photo in our earlier article about a 2018 crash of a tractor-trailer load of dimes shows the pallets and bags.

"Quick - ride back to town and get a whole ________ of dimes!" -Editor

"You and Chip Howell are both correct.

It's Bruce Banner in the comics, but on the TV show it was David Banner."

Ah, vindication! Thanks. Now nobody get mad at Gary. -Editor

Ken Spindler shared this eBay listing of an unusual altered U.S. Fractional Currency note with the San Diego Paper Money Club (and now us, too). Thanks! Very cool. -Editor

"I got a few questions about my opinion of it and remarked that it appears to have been carried around in someone's wallet for at least a few years."

"I have had a copy of Remy Bourne's reprint of Numisma since it was issued 40 years ago. My copy is marked #26 of 100. That binding is called a comb binding, not a spiral binding.

"My first job out of college was with a city planning consulting firm. We had an in-house printing and binding shop. We used comb bindings for all of our reports. The equipment to punch the rectangular holes and tool to open the comb to insert pages was relatively cheap and convenient for publications with small print runs.

"Comb bindings are plastic. Spiral bindings use a piece of coiled wire. I have no experience installing a spiral binding and we did not have the equipment to do that.

"With hundreds of books on my bookshelf, I see only four with comb bindings. One of these is Numismatics in the News: Gleanings from Contemporary Newspapers published by Wayne Homren in August, 1993. My copy is #15 of an edition of 20."

Pete's quite correct. Thanks for pointing out the distinction between comb and spiral bindings.

Those Gleanings were draft copies of a book I never got around to completing. I was too much of a perfectionist to consider it done (a common problem with first-time authors). I wanted to add commentary and images for every article, and those were the pre-internet days when finding and preparing images for print was a big chore. A few years later I was married with children and never returned to the project. Instead I started The E-Sylum, with its weekly deadline serving as a forcing function to bypass perfectionism - perfect or not, out it goes. -Editor