2013 COIN OF THE YEAR QUESTIONS AND CORRECTION
Regarding last week's item about the Coin of the Year (COTY) awards,Jim Duncan writes:

Bruce Perdue writes:

Most Popular Coin
National Bank of Mongolia - 2011 Ural Owl 500 Togrog Silver Coin
A close up of the Ural Owl is shown with its eyes created from two dark Swarovski Elements.

Struck in 99.9% silver with an antique finish, the weight is 1 troy ounce and diameter is 38.61 mm. The mintage is indicated at 2,500 pieces.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:2013 COIN OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNERS(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n51a17.html)

Happy Birthday, Melvil Dewey

It's the birthday of Melvil Dewey, born in Adams Center, New York (1851). He put himself through college by working in the library, and he felt it was appallingly disorganized. There was no consistent system across libraries. Some numbered shelves, some arranged books by size just to look nice, and some libraries tried to alphabetize the whole library, which meant that every time they got a new book they had to redo the entire system. He knew there had to be a better way, so he worked on a system of categories and sub-categories, assigning each a system of numbers. And he came up with the Dewey Decimal System, which is still used today in many libraries, a series of classifications divided and subdivided into subjects and a decimal number assigned to each book.

To read the complete article, see:Dec. 10, 2012(writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2012/12/10)

Maine Depression Scrip Images Sought
Max Lynds (max@pwless.net writes:

No God But Allah Overstamp

PAN eNews Promotes The E-Sylum
In the Nov /Dec 2012 issue of PAN eNews (published by the Pennsylvania Association of Numismatists), editor Pat McBride writes:

Pat appended a note I'd recently sent to some Pittsburgh-area numismatists inviting them to subscribe:

Thanks for the shout-out!

Three-Dollar Gold Piece Held With Sublime Tenacity
Dave Bowers forwarded this image of an item from the Meriden (CT) Daily Republican April 11, 1888. Thanks!