Please welcome our newest advertiser, Dix Noonan Webb Ltd of London, who have a sale coming up this week (June 8-9, 2016).

New subscribers this week include: Eric Hodge. Welcome aboard! We now have 1,976 subscribers.

On Friday the American Numismatic Society tweeted:

Wow! Thanks, John! This effort is part of the Newman Numismatic Portal project. As seen in the page counter to the right, the NNP now has over 281,000 pages of numismatic content. See two articles in this issue for the latest NNP additions.

This week we open with some interesting selections from Kolbe & Fanning's upcoming sale, some new books, two reviews, and the early history of The Numismatist.

Other topics this week include Kelly's Coins and Chatter, the mysterious Mrs. Marshall, NCCA monographs, Burdette Johnson, Josiah Lilly, Carling Gresham, Trade Dollar circulation, Civil War token "scrip mates", the Afghanistan Campaign medal and a frozen image of coin circulation in Pompeii.

To learn more about Lucky Bucks play money, Robinson &Ballou cardboard scrip, Hall of Fame of Great Americans medals, the Photoplay Magazine Medal of Honor, the William Langmuir countermark, Military Payment Certificates, nighthawking, and transgendered Georgie, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum