New subscribers this week include: Christian Cloke (subscriber no. 2,000!), Larry Meiteles, and Cole. Welcome aboard! We now have 2,001 subscribers.

If you're wondering why the numbers don't seem to add up, we had one person unsubscribe during the week, the ungrateful wretch. What do you want for free? It's actually quite rare for someone to unsubscribe - usually that's only when people move to a new address and immediately resubscribe. Generally, people sooner die off than unsubscribe.

Roger Siboni writes:

This week we open with some numismatic literature events at the recently-concluded ANA World's Fair of Money, new material on the Newman Numismatic Portal, and notes from E-Sylum readers on various topics.

Other topics this week include election coin-flipping, encased Victorian pennies, dealer Gerge Bauer, the 2016 FIDEM Congress, Olympic medals and movie prop money.

To learn more about Numismatic Literary Guild (NLG) winners, the 1974-D aluminum cent, modern paper money chopmarks, the identical twin 1794 dollars, the bogus machine, Mr. Redbook, Lutefisk and counterfeiter Frank Bourassa, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum