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This week we open with NBS events at the Philadelphia ANA show, publications from ANS, two new books a periodical and one review.

Other topics this week include the engraver of the Continental Dollar coins, good news for the numismatic hobby, the World Coin Games, a detectorist's discovery of a cache of Washington inaugural buttons, "circulation cameos", U.S. Mint Engraver Charles Barber, Caesaria mint coins, and going cashless in Somaliland.

To learn more about early electrum coinage, the Bonanza King, the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance, engravers Elias Gervais and Wilheim Mayer, the Harvard College Porcellian Club medal, Treasury Vignette Books, PNG authentication certificates, U.S. Agricultural Society medals, coin mottos, and Fraser Finds in Shell Knob, Missouri, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum