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This week we open with a new Kolbe & Fanning sale, a price list from Parsons Books, NINE new books, NLG award winners, and multiple Newman Numismatic Portal updates.

Other topics this week include early Mint price lists, dealer A. E. Marks, stigmatized money, a Harold II penny, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Invasion of Champaign.

To learn more about Ormsby's 1852 A Description of the Present System of Bank Note Engraving, Canadian coins and tokens, Civil War numismatics, toy money, machine engraving, theCanadian Banking Memorabilia Society and Rush's Thunder Clappers, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum