"I had two metal credit cards from Capital One. They were just sitting in my folder because the acct was closed and the cards had never been activated. About 6 months later Capital One closed another account I had with them because of an attempted fraud on my card. My wife's card was fine since she had a different # on our joint account. About a week later I got a new card from Capital One. Along with the new card, there was a postage paid envelope for the return of the now defunct metal card. Aha! I put my three dead metal cards in the envelope and off I went to the post office to put the envelope in the mail. I did this because I wanted to check with the postal clerk that it was OK to just drop it in the mail slot because the envelope was not pliable with all the metal inside. He said it would probably be a problem going thru a sorting machine. The clerk then added a $1.19 special handling charge. I figured that was cheaper and easier than the acid bath I was contemplating."

Jim Haas submitted some updates to his earlier article about the medals of Dr. Heinrich Traun, founder of the Hamburg Rubber Comb Company. -Editor

According to Dr. Hendrik Böttcher of the Museum of Work, it is possible that the medal was produced for the World's Columbian Exposition, but because company archives were unfortunately lost, it is not possible to confirm that a rubber version was produced, distributed or displayed in the German pavilion located in the Manufactures Building.

According to Dr. Böttcher, it is probable that the New-York-Harburger Gummi-Kamm Compagnie did make hard rubber tokens for their trading posts in Africa. In 1902 the company changed the name to Heinrich Traun & Söhne. (and Son)

"The Bethlehem item that David Pickup labeled as TRANSPORT is actually a Parking Token. The ID is PA 3085 D in the Feisel Catalog."

Thank you. -Editor

Nick Graver shared this funky USA Today image of Ben Franklin on the $100 bill. Thanks. -Editor

"The so-called coin of ‘King Solomon' is nothing of the sort. Sad that such fiction can pass for an explanation of the imagery on a Roman-Egyptian coin of Antoninus Pius. For a correct explanation of the coin's imagery see this Smithsonian article."

"The coin is easily recognizable a bronze Drachm of Alexandria, Egypt. It is one of the famed and popular Zodiac series minted during the reign of the emperor Antoninus Pius. This one depicts the moon in Cancer. A specimen can be seen on the CNG website."

Thanks, everyone. -Editor