Since the upcoming Christmas and New Year's Day holidays fall on Sundays, The E-Sylum issues will be delayed by at least a day each of those weeks. But I'll get them out somehow.Keep your emails coming, but be patient if you don't get a quick reply.

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This week we open with more highlights of the Kolbe & Fanning 2017 New York numismatic literature sale, a new book project, and updates from the Newman Numismatic Portal.

Other topics this week include the Chase Manhattan Bank Money Museum, the 1950 American Legion school Award medal, Confederate money dealer William E. Mickle, the virtues of the shabby hundreddollar bill, the "Mule Brittania" error, engraved micro-portraits, and numismatic references in A Christmas Carol.

To learn more about the Connecticut Copper Mint, U.S. Mint Cabinet purchases, author book inscriptions, Waldo Newcomer's bank, buying bags of Morgan dollars at face value, the First RevoltYear Four Shekel, Colonial Currency monograms, the artist's bronze cast of the Standing Liberty Quarter, and cold calling phone pounders, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum