Wayne Homren

New subscribers this week include: Wolfgang Boehm of Kassel, Germany, courtesy of David Cassel; Scott Sery, and Bill Sponseller. Welcome aboard!We now have 1,797 subscribers.

This week we open with updates from literature dealers Fred Lake and David Fanning, some literature lots in the Stack's Bowers NYINC sale, twonew books and one review. Next is information about the Newman Numismatic Portal, a new web site planned to debut in 2015.

Other topics include the 1838-O half dollar, the 1795 Massachusetts State House time capsule, the Everglades National Park quarter, U.S. Mintsculptor Joseph Menna, Steve Tanenbaum's Good-For tokens, Watson's gold Nobel prize medal, and South Korean numismatics.

To learn more about Augustin Dupré, Congreve's Principals of Security Against Forgery, Civil War Sutler tokens, the Numismatic Indexes Project,Royal succession and the state mourning period, Sir Aston Lever's Holophusicon, Pablo Picasso's medals, Mount Vernon Shingle Script, LoveWarts and Bicycle Face, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum