Update to Bowers Continental Dollar Article
Regarding last week's Dave Bowers article on the Continental Dollar, Maureen Levine writes:

To read the updated E-Sylum article, see:
1776 CONTINENTAL ITEM: FROM COIN TO MEDAL (http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n39a16.html)

To read the updated Mint News Blog article, see:
From coin to medal: Transition of the 1776 Continental Currency coin(http://mintnewsblog.com/from-coin-to-medal-transition-of-the-1776-continental-currency-coin/)

Cheyenne Agency Token
Regrding an article published last week, Larry Dziubek writes:

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
FEISEL TOKEN SALE CLOSES OCTOBER 27, 2018 (http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n39a22.html)

Clapp's French Sale Catalog
Jan Valentine writes:

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 : More on Leatherbound French Catalogs(http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n39a09.html)

Plaster Casts in Coin Photography

Kavan Ratnatunga writes:

Testoons and Shillings
Regarding the statement in last week's piece from Allan Davisson that "Shillings were a Tudor innovation that began with the coinage reform under Edward VI," DavidPowell writes:

The shilling as a coin was introduced at the beginning of the 16th century during the last years of the reign of Henry VII and until the middle of that century was known as atestoon. It was one of the first English coins to bear a real portrait of the monarch instead of the representative portrait which had served for the previous ten centuries; andit was for this reason that it derived its name of testoon from the Italian Testone or Headpiece introduced in Milan in 1474.

Convenient in size and value, the shilling became one of the popular workhorses of the silver circulation. Colloquially described for some unknown reason as a bob, it was notsuperseded until 1968, during the preparations for decimalisation,

To read the complete article, see:
Shilling(http://www.royalmintmuseum.org.uk/coins/british-coinage/old-denominations/shilling/index.html)

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
THE SHILLINGS OF ELIZABETH I (http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n39a24.html)

1978 Zodiac Calendar Medal Designer
Last week I asked about the designer of the 1978 Zodiac Calendar Medal. Rich Jewell writes:

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
NUMISMATIC NUGGETS: SEPTEMBER 30, 2018 : 1978 Zodiac Calendar Medal(http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n39a20.html)

What Is That Thing?

Gary Beals writes:

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
PAN FALL 2018 SHOW VIDEOS PUBLISHED (http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n39a08.html)

Confederate Numismatica Supplement One Correction

For more information on his book, see these earlier E-Sylum articles:
NEW BOOK: CONFEDERATE NUMISMATICA SUPPLEMENT ONE (http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n32a05.html)
REVIEW: CONFEDERATE NUMISMATICA SUPPLEMENT ONE (http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n35a05.html)