Lyon & Turnbull, Scotland (April 1, 2020)

"Alone in the saleroom, managing director Gavin Strang stood for 12 hours on the rostrum, fielding bids via video-conferencing software from three online platformsand phones operated by staff from home.

"Almost 1400 bidders registered online, with around 500 online absentee and 700 commission bids left before the sale. The selling rate across around 600 lots was 83% -above the norm for this sale category.

"It was certainly the longest time I have ever spent on the rostrum, but I'm not complaining" said Strang. "If there hadn't been so much bidding, I might have beenfinished in half the time.

"I'm glad we were able to trade in a way which allowed all our staff and customers to safely stay at home."

To read the complete article, see:
"The longest timeI have ever spent on the rostrum" - Lyon & Turnbull's live online sale delivers results(https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2020/the-longest-time-i-have-ever-spent-on-the-rostrum-lyon-and-turnbull-s-live-online-sale-delivers-results/)

Britain's Volunteer Army

When the British government asked people to help the National Health Service during the coronavirus crisis, it called for a "volunteer army." Within four days,750,000 people had signed up - three times the original target and four times the size of the British armed forces.

Britain hasn't seen such a surge in volunteers since World War II, when the country pulled together in a way still remembered with immense pride. Now - with more than 60,000people here having tested positive for the coronavirus, and with the prime minister among those who have been hospitalized - organizers are figuring out how to deploy the army,while individuals and companies are engaged in informal volunteer activities throughout the British Isles.

Michael Hayes, 55, is a taxi driver who joined the volunteer army and is awaiting his first official assignment. In the meantime, he spends about five hours a day driving NHSstaff home, at no cost, from Newham University Hospital in East London, where his three children were born.

"Some of them come out, they've had dreadful days, the worst ... and they are walking out thinking, 'I still got to get home,' I'm sort of like a little ray of sunshine,"Hayes said. "They see me sitting there and I whiz them home."

They aren't involved in medical care. Another 12,000 former NHS workers said they would come back for that. Rather, the volunteers are supposed to help the elderly and othersdeemed especially vulnerable to the virus by doing such tasks as delivering groceries and medicine, driving people to appointments and conducting check-ins on those inself-isolation.

To read the complete article, see:
750,000people volunteered to help Britain's NHS. Now they're being deployed.(https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/750000-people-volunteered-to-help-britains-nhs-now-theyre-being-deployed/2020/04/08/5a106766-729b-11ea-ad9b-254ec99993bc_story.html)

United States Mint (April 8, 2020)
In their April 2020 Coins Online Newsletter the United States Mint writes:

Sixbid (April 9, 2020)
Sixbid Numismatic Auctions writes:

To visit the SixBid auction calendar, see:
https://www.sixbid.com/en/auctions/calendar

Northeast Numismatics (April 9, 2020)
Tom Caldwell of Northeast Numismatics writes:

To visit the Northeast Numismatics website, see:
https://www.northeastcoin.com/

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
CORONAVIRUS UPDATES: APRIL 5, 2020 (https://www.coinbooks.org/v23/esylum_v23n14a16.html)