Wayne Homren

New subscribers this week include: Kevin Flavin. Welcome aboard! We now have 1,846 subscribers. Due to a technical problem with our mailing service, the email version of this issue was published Monday evening, but the online version was published normally and available Monday morning, as usual. Sorry for the inconvenience.

This week we open with four new books and an update on the NeoCollect web site. Other topics include the Laubenheimer archive, the Continental Dollar, Joel Iskowitz' Fighter Aces medal design, the Oregon Train half dollar, gold coin usage in the 1830s, muted, pictorial and minimalist coin designs, Falun Gong notes, the Pakistan Haj note, and the paradox of Byzantine silver.

To learn more about A.C. Paquet's Business Card, Don Bailey, famous names on obsolete banknotes, an Emancipation Day token, Belgium's new Waterloo coin, copper isotope fractionation, starving billionaires and the Perpetual Dictator of the Order of the Honey Bee, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum