Wayne Homren

New subscribers this week include: Gilles Bransbourg, courtesy of ANS Executive Director Dr. Ute Wartenberg Kagan; Gene Frederick, courtesy of John and Nancy Wilson, and Michele Thompson of the U.S. Mint. Welcome aboard! We now have 1,856 subscribers.

This week we open with updates from numismatic literature dealers Orville Grady, Kolbe & Fanning, and David Sklow, and publisher Dennis Tucker. Next up are no less than SEVEN new numismatics books. Wow! U.S. topics include Alaska numismatics, Postage Currency pattern coins, Slave Hire badges, Carson City gold, Prof. Daniel Groux, eccentric Emperor Norton, and hijacker D. B. Cooper. Plus: a grumpy antiquarian, a scheming salesman, and a pompous windbag walk into a coin shop ...

Other topics include the Sikyon Stater, Royal commemorative medals, Asian telephone tokens, lottery tickets and commemorative notes of Thailand, Swiss Shooting Talers, the SS Central America Kellogg $50 restrikes, and the Philatelic and Numismatic Association of Thiruvananthapuram.

To learn more about rare ANA memorabilia, prosopography and historiography, ma po do foo, numismatic books never published, the Cupeller and Humid Assayer, and crystal dew drops, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum