I didn't manage to pull together a Numismatic Diary last week, so this is a little late. But on Tuesday April 19, 2022 I travelled to Alexandria, VA for another dinner meeting of my numismatic social group Nummis Nova. Our host was Robert Hoppensteadt, and the venue was Southside 815.

Attendees included Robert, Dave Schenkman, Tom Kays, Jon Radel, Mike Packard, myself and my guest Patrick Parkinson, author of John S. Dye and His Counterfeit Detectors. Patrick and I spent a good while talking about pamphlets relating to early U.S. banking history.

Up at the other end of the table Tom Kays was taking note of the items being passed about and provided this account:

The Identification Discs book was a recent addition to my library.Dave Schenkman followed up with images of his Virginia transportation token.

Lucas VA-CAR Bus Lines Token

Dave writes:

Here's more from Tom:

A two-sided, heavy, iron cross paperweight with brass medal insert made of ballast from the German commercial cargo submarine Deutschland that visited Baltimore, Maryland in July 1916, under the command of Prussian Captain Paul Liebrecht König, who met with the Baltimore mayor. Before America stopped being neutral, German ships and submarines conducted trans-Atlantic commerce, bringing European trade goods like dye stuffs to the U.S. After visiting Baltimore, the Deutschland visited New London, Connecticut that same summer, where she accidentally collided with a tugboat. Drafted out of the merchant navy into combat in World War I the Deutschland would later be credited with 21 sunk vessels as U-155;

A 1933 Buffalo Nickel (overstrike by Daniel Carr), useful for when you really need to fill holes in your date run, regardless of whether the U.S. Mint got around to it;

The phrenology book was mine. I've long forgotten how I acquired it, but it was just too amusing to deaccession.