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FUN FACT: According to the Wall Street Journal (which found this in her book), presumptive Vice President candidate Kamala Harris once worked as a tour guide at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

This week we open with updates from NBS, Pogue Library sale results, three new books, two periodicals, updates from the Newman Numismatic Portal, and more.

Other topics this week include Donald Groves Partrick, Bill and Elizabeth Wisslead, the Whitman Expo, modeling clay, Lesher dollars, Roman Emperors, English Kings, the strawberry leaf and 1955 doubled die cents, and Australian coin trench art.

To learn more about The Fantastic 1804 Dollar, Money Artist J.S.G. Boggs, the Archaeologist's Laboratory, assignats, David R. Sear, Matte Proof cents, the 1979 silver boom, the New York-style Brasher Doubloon, and numismatic fisticuffs, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum