My numismatic endeavors have been limited lately. Last week I traveled for business to Honolulu and during the long plane rides I caught up on some reading. The first was a quick read - David Ganz' new book, The Essential Guide to Investing in Precious Metals.Requiring much more time was a manuscript by Roger Burdette. Both were enjoyable and I learned a number of things.

I showed some of my colleagues a holed Hawaiian quarter I keep on my keychain. I forget where I got it - it may have been through John Burns many years ago. Speaking of Hawaii, there was a story out this week about a collector who noticed "extra islands" on Hawaii state quarters - probably created by die pits.

To read the complete article, see:Hawaii coin collector finds errors on commemorative quarters(www.khon2.com/news/local/story/Hawaii-coin
-collector-finds-errors-on/1rgBczmgUEyRVWY6LK_X-w.cspx)

Ordinarily, this week's diary would be filled with my tales from Tuesday's meeting of Nummis Nova, but I ended up out of town that day too, this time for a family funeral. But I did the next best thing and asked the attendees to pass along reports of their own, Here they are.

Dave Schenkman writes:

Dave adds:

Tom Kays writes:

Tom adds:

Eric Schena writes:

Many thanks for the assistance this week, and the great images. I missed some great stuff!