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The E-Sylum: Volume 27, Number 50, December 22, 2024, Article 26

My E-Sylum inbox was slightly thinner than normal this week, and I took part of Saturday morning to clean my desk of chores that had piled up. The bottleneck was a pile of packages I'd been needing to ship - some of these were to return materials to Newman Portal donors. Over the Thanksgiving weekend I'd gotten started by gathering packing materials and confirming addresses. But by the time I got all the addresses I was knee-deep in getting out the issue, so the pile sat on my desk. Each week other chores ended up higher on the to-do list. But I was able to tackle the chore at last, and luckily got to the post office early enough to beat a crowd that lined up out the door as I left. I grabbed lunch and tackled the rest of my desk when I got home, filing or recycling other items, some of which will result in future E-Sylum articles. Today my desk is neat as a pin. Well, except for the dust, but that'll be a quick chore for a spare few minutes another time.

Sunday morning I was treated to the smell of Christmas cookies being baked by my wife and daughter. 'Tis the season... -Editor

Wayne Homren
Wayne Homren is the founding editor of The E-Sylum and a consultant for the Newman Numismatic Portal. His collecting interests at various times included U.S. Encased Postage Stamps, merchant counterstamps, Pittsburgh Obsolete paper money, Civil War tokens and scrip, Carnegie Hero Medals, charge coins and numismatic literature. He also collects and has given presentations on the work of Money Artist J.S.G. Boggs. In the non-numismatic world he's worked in artificial intelligence, data science, and as a Program Manager for the U.S. Department of Defense.

Garrett Ziss
Garrett Ziss is a numismatic collector and researcher, with a focus on American paper money and early U.S. silver and copper coins. He is also a part-time U.S. coin cataloger for Heritage Auctions. Garrett assists Editor Wayne Homren by editing and formatting a selection of articles and images each week. When he's not engaged in numismatics, Garrett is a Senior Honors student at the University of Pittsburgh.

Pete Smith
Numismatic researcher and author Pete Smith of Minnesota has written about early American coppers, Vermont coinage, numismatic literature, tokens and medals, the history of the U.S. Mint and much more. Author of American Numismatic Biographies, he contributes original articles to The E-Sylum often highlighting interesting figures in American numismatic history.

Greg Bennick
Greg Bennick (www.gregbennick.com) is a keynote speaker and long time coin collector with a focus on major mint error coins and US counterstamps. He is on the board of both CONECA and TAMS and enjoys having in-depth conversations with prominent numismatists from all areas of the hobby. Have ideas for other interviewees? Contact him anytime on the web or via instagram @minterrors.

John Nebel
Numismatist, photographer, and ANS Board member and Fellow John Nebel of Boulder, CO helped the ANA and other clubs like NBS get online in the early days of the internet, hosting websites gratis through his Computer Systems Design Co. To this day he hosts some 50 ANA member club sites along with our coinbooks.org site, making the club and our E-Sylum archive available to collectors and researchers worldwide.

Bruce Perdue
Encased coinage collector (encasedcoins.info) Bruce Perdue of Aurora, Illinois has been the volunteer NBS webmaster from its early days and works each week to add the latest E-Sylum issue to our archive and send out the email announcement.