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I'm travelling with my family this week and much of next week and have a backlog of articles and email I'm slowly working through. If you've written and haven'theard from me, check in next week for status. Happy holidays, everyone.

This week we open with an update from numismatic booksellers Kolbe & Fanning, two new books, and Christmas coin cards on the Newman Portal.

Other topics this week include beveled borders and edges, slabbed coin dies, stacks of high-relief double eagles, the Alan Weinberg collection, Kenya's new circulatingcoins, a menorah made of coins, and the Christmas story on notgeld.

To learn more about the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George, William A. Pettit, Seth Chadbourne, proof Morgan dollars, the Judd-1 silver center cent, the GreatBelzoni and Feynman's Nobel prize medal, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum