New subscribers this week include: Matt Campbell. Welcome aboard! We now have 1,982 subscribers. Welcome also to our newest advertiser, Tom Pilitowski's U.S. Rare Coin Investments.

This week we open with NBS events at the upcoming ANA convention, the latest issue of The Asylum, and a new mobile-friendly NBS web site.

Other topics this week include Kolbe & Fanning's Sale #142, a new book on U.S. Paper Money, Kennedy Half materials on the Newman Numismatic Portal, the DuPont bicentennial medals, Henry Clay and Carnegie Hero medals, and polymer banknote co-inventor David Solomon.

To learn more about the Jack Collins Award, mint errors, the W.W.C. Wilson sale, the The Philatelic West, the Star Coin Book Junior, Edmondo Quattrocchi, numismatic tomfoolery, and Mox Nix Nil, read on.

I'm on the road vacationing with my family, so I'll only be online intermittently this week. and may not be able to get everything sent to me into next week's issue. But stay in touch and please do keep sending me your input. It's what makes The E-Sylum great. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum