As noted last week, this issue is being published late due to your editor's travel to the ANA convention. Thank you for your patience.

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This week we open with a report on NBS activities at the ANA convention, the 2018 IAPN Book Prize, two new books, a CD offer, and word of the loss ofE-Sylum subscriber #1.

Other topics this week include Lithuanian counterstamps, Orders & Medals, updates from the Newman Numismatic Portal, collector Henry Sternberg, the CNGSale 112, Augustus Sage medalets, and ANA convention diaries.

To learn more about NBS coffee mugs, notgeld of Galicia, Peter Gaspar, the Karystos Stater, the Old Sugar House, and the Vampire note found in a hedge, readon. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum