Wayne Homren

Happy Father's Day, Dads!Our new subscribers this week include Howard Schulman, courtesy of Bob Fritsch, andVictor England.Welcome aboard!We have 1,734 email subscribers.

You know your Editor isn't a robot when he types 3014 instead of 2014 for the date of the Mint Director's Conference. Will there still be coins then? Thanks to Bruce Perdue, Ken Spindler and Pete Smith for catching this whopper.

This week we open with a reminder of the NBS events at the ANA convention, four new numismatic books, and a short review of the George Morgan Sketchbook book.

Other topics include the drop hammer press, the Theodore Vail medal, token denominations, the Junior Numismatic Correspondence Club, the Sino-Scandinavia bank and the Formosa Ration Dollar.

To learn more about the Directory of Circulating Coins, the Free City of Danzig, an unreported variation of the "Dr. G.G. Wilkins" counterstamp, the Wade Goodwin Good-For token, "Marma" Metzger's gold piece, The Inkspot, and coins struck for libertarian movies, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum