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This week we open with three new books, a special edition, and the loss of a longtime NBS member and officer. Other topics this week include U.S. Commemorative coinage references, the SSCentral America treasure, the U.S. Mint's new medal series and mutilated coin program, the ANA Summer Seminar, ISIS coinage, and a Trump portrait in pennies

To learn more about banknotes of Germany, the luxurious feel of the Japanese cloth, bespoke bindings, Harry Rapp, Charles Foster, California fractional gold coins, copper planchets, coin artistinspirations, encased dollars, the 1879 Quintuple Stella, the Rusted Rupees of Seychelles, D.B. Cooper, and Lincoln's World Famous 50,000 Silver $ Bar, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum