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This week we open with NBS events at the ANA convention, numismatic literature in the Stack's Bowers ANA sales, three new books and a new website, updates from the Newman Numismatic Portal, notes from readers and more.

Other topics this week include the medallic works of Charles Barber, Japanese Military Certificates, medals of the 1896 Olympics, Mike Olson, upcoming auction highlights, tactile banknotes, fantasy banknotes, and a Mexican coin sculpture in China.

To learn more about numismatic bibliographies, Attinelli's Numisgraphics, Hall's Connecticut Coppers, Newlin's Early Half Dimes, Georgian numismatics, New York City transit tokens, leading coin dealers of 1895, coins that stopped a bullet, W.L. Ormsby, ungraded slabbed coins, the American Colonization Society, and a Viking "piggy bank". read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum