"Thank you very much for your hard work with The E-Sylum. I enjoy reading it first thing on Monday mornings. I thought with Christmas coming up in a few weeks that readers might like to see a really nice 'love token' that I have owned for over 30 years. I have attached photos of both sides. It is a really nice Type 3, $1."

Indeed - very nice piece! Thank you. -Editor

"While reading the E-Sylum about the Lincoln cent, I noticed (what I think is) a huge mistake in Allen Davisson's article. It states that the Lincoln cent will be 125 years old in 2024. Perhaps with the "new" math it could be, but I am old enough that I use old-school math which makes the cent 115 years old.

Aside from that, the article and the entire E-Sylum is, as always, an excellent read!! Thanks for the great job!"

This is why we need publications with real editors and reporters like Coin World. Thankfully E-Sylum readers are great proofreaders and find a lot of things that slip through like that. Thanks - good catch. -Editor

"I drove there from around 1967 until they closed in the early/mid '70's, as I recall. There were other local L.A. dealers who went there on a much more regular basis than I did. I was pretty young, and just remember seeing so many ‘vest pocket' and regular dealers there, trading coins, talking, playing poker later (I wasn't in that group at that time!)."

Thanks. Coin dealers are a poker-playing bunch! -Editor

"Regarding the Badische Aniline Dollar in the latest E-Sylum, I don't think the name of the note has anything to do with depositing Dutch Guilders. Anilin (Analine) was a chemical product produced by BASF and was the A of the company's initials ever since its founding in 1865. Like BASF, numerous firms produced emergency money and they are more appropriately named after the firm, not after their product. Thus, the proper name for this note is BASF currency."

Thanks. That makes more sense. I wondered if I was missing something when the article described it as "the so-called aniline dollar" and later "hence the nickname Aniline Dollar". Since BASF isn't a government, rather than "currency" I think I would call it "BASF Scrip" or "BASF Emergency Money." -Editor

Jim Haas passed along this newspaper clipping inspired by last week's item about catching a counterfeiter. Thanks! -Editor

"Officer John P. Kraebel and my great grandfather Charles Dockendorf served on the College Point Police Force in the 1890s."