Slow week for me here, although I added a "new" book to my numismatic library - the 1976 Kessler book on The Fugio Coppers. Along with The Fantastic 1804 Dollar, this title was one of my first purchases as a collector after the usual Red Book. Both were eye-opening and spurred me to think beyond pressing Lincoln Cents into Whitman folders. I'd made an impulsive decision to sell my copy when I realized they were bringing $200 in the market, figuring I could always buy one back later if the price dropped. I think it brought $175. I had never gotten around to actually replacing it until I saw a nice copy in Alan Workman's recent sale. Glad to have this old friend back on the shelf!
I'd been refraining from bothering my L.A. friends, but on Sunday I thought I'd check in to see how they're doing amid the wildfires. While some had been evacuated and others could see the fires at a distance from their homes, so far everyone I've heard from is fine, thankfully. What a horror.
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Editor Wayne Homren, Assistant Editor Garrett Ziss
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.
Contributors Pete Smith and Greg Bennick
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.
Website host John Nebel and webmaster Bruce Perdue
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.
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