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This week we open with results from the Kolbe-Fanning New York sale, three new books, a new chapter in The Banknote Book, one review, and a discount price book offer from Q. DavidBowers.

Other topics this week include the mysterious Mrs. Marshall, seleucid coins, sculptor Selma Burke, Michelangelo's design, hidden gold, Sen. Bob Dole's antics, the Constitution Preamblecoins, copy dies, and clothing on ancient coins.

To learn more about Dye's Bank Mirror and Illustrated Counterfeit Detector, Carson City Morgan Dollars, Irish Gunmoney, Kiau Chau, the Scheffold token, Jules Fonrobert, South Carolinacolonial currency, the Easy Display System, the Pater Patriæ inaugural button, and medallic sculptor Heidi Wastweet, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum