Wayne Homren

New subscribers this week include: Michael Hicks, Angel Antonio Vidal, John Agre, Brian Morgan, Antonio Henares, Dario Calomino, John Brush, and Nico Ribbens. Welcome aboard! We now have 1,948 subscribers.

This week we open with a new issue of The Asylum, a Kolbe & Fanning fixed price list, a couple new books, and another numismatic journal available on the Newman Numismatic Portal.

Other topics include how to build a numismatic library, new members of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, a 'Jefferson Cent', a Columbia Shield, Chinese coin dies, Japanese Invasion Money, 'Hell Money', and a first-hand account of the Trial of the Pyx.

To learn more about, Augustin Dupré's role in French coinage, recoining uncurrent coins, dealer Charles Enders, Jr., foreign coins circulating in New York, damnatio memoriae, the gunpowder note, bookbinder recommendations, the 'wrong-way' Buffalo nickel and the burning of $1M in rare U.S. banknotes, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum