New subscribers this week include: Richard Ormandy, Phil Soditch, and Jack Tu.Welcome aboard!

A number of these new subscribers came from a nice post by OAKSTAR on the PCGS Coin forum. Thank you!
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This week we open with four new books, one review, a new collector organization, updates from the Newman Numismatic Portal and the ANA, and more.

Other topics this week include Half Cents, New Zealand coinage, Orders, Decorations and Medals, the Medallic Art Company, proof set packaging, coin radius, digital images, really big coins and really big coin bags, subscriber profiles, auction previews, Animals in War and Peace, Texas currency, ink-stained banknotes, and bank failures.

To learn more about Polish coins, Phaleristics, Derek Pobjoy, Thomas Jefferson's 1790 report to the House of Representatives on proposed weights, measures and coins, Harvey Stack, Victor Dubreuil, Pat McBride, Ed Fuhrman, ancient coin collections in Canada, modeling clay, ballistic coin bags, and my nine-year-old shirt, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum