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This week we open with a numismatic literature sale, SEVEN new books, a periodical, notes from readers, and more.

Other topics this week include 1922 Lincoln Cents, Samarian and Irish coinage, tokens, topical world coin collecting, screw medals, 100-year-old numismatists, the 1804 dollars, the "Omega" cents, the new semiquincentennial coins, the Carpathia gold medal, and Hudson's Bay Company.

To learn more about Mint operations of the 1920s, the Zhuyuetang Collection, clipped coins of early Imperial China and Feudal Japan, the Franklin D. Roosevelt March, George Marlier, Ed DeLaurentis, a Roman bronze "contorniate", Ruby Bridges, Frederick Douglass, and the banknote teleporter, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum