ASYLUM AUTUMN 2024 ISSUE PUBLISHED

Welcome to The Asylum's Autumn 2024 digital edition.

In this issue:

• NBS Meetings at the 2024 ANA World's Fair of Money By Leonard Augsburger
• Report from the NBS Treasurer By Jeff Dickerson
• Attinelli Fellowship Visits S&S Library's New West Loop Location By Tyler Rossi
• Numismatic Bibliomaniacs Converge in Champaign, Illinois By Leonard Augsburger
• New Tom Elder Plate Discovered By David Fanning
• The Gene Gardner Collection Photo Books By Leonard Augsburger
• An Interest in the Country's Coinage By David Pickup
• Life After the ANS Library By Elizabeth Hahn Benge
• Numismatic Issues of The Franklin Mint, 1968–1974, Including Franklin Mint Limited Editions, 1975–1977 By Mike Costanzo

Message from NBS President Len Augsburger

Welcome to the Autumn 2024 issue of The Asylum. This year's ANA convention in Rosemont, IL proved as busy as ever, and numismatic bibliophiles were not far behind. A variety of meetings, get-togethers, and bourse happenings served to keep us engaged and hopefully more energized than exhausted! Announced during the convention, this year's ANA publication awards provided a two-fer for the NBS, with The Asylum winning third place in the specialty club category, while the E-Sylum took second place among the electronic publication contestants. Thanks to both of our editors, Maria Fanning and Wayne Homren, for their continued service to the club. A full ANA convention report appears elsewhere in this issue.

I'd like to acknowledge a pair of behind-the-scenes NBS supporters who deserve our appreciation. John Nebel has provided web hosting services for our club site, coinbooks.org, for many years. Through the courtesy of John, the site presents the NBS podcast, the E-Sylum archives, The Asylum index, and other features. In companion with site hosting comes the work of constantly adding and modifying content, and we are grateful to Bruce Perdue who serves as our indefatigable site administrator. Bruce engages with the site at least weekly, as each issue of E-Sylum pairs with updates to the site. Speaking of the E-Sylum, we welcome Garrett Ziss to the editorial team. Garrett is a former ANA YN of the Year and currently studies economics and accounting at the University of Pittsburgh. Each week, Wayne assigns several E-Sylum articles to Garrett, who then handles the editing and HTML-formatting tasks.

While most of us possess the collecting gene to one degree or another, here's hoping that we all focus more on reading than collecting our books. If you are reading these words, rather than rearranging your back issues of The Asylum, that's a good start! Enjoy this issue, and I hope to see you in person soon at one numismatic event or another.

Thanks to all contributors to NBS's award-winning publications! You are what makes them great.

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