Wayne Homren

Our new subscribers this week include S. McPike of the U.S. Mint, Matthew Wittmann, andJura Iwlew.We have 1,724 email subscribers.

Last week's issue with the lead article on John Adams winning the Huntington Award was a big hit. Ray Williams forwarded it to all the colonial coin collectors in Yahoo groups, and Ben Weiss added a link to it on the Medal Collectors of America web site.

Favorite reader comment of the week: "Although your wife might disagree with me, I think you do everything right." - Fred Michaelson.

Happy Star Wars Day - May the Fourth be with you.This week we open with an award for one of the E-Sylum crew, numismatic literature sale notes from Fred Lake, David Fanning and Ursula Kampmann, and two book reviews.

Other topics include cave paining art in numismatics, periodical indexes, engraving styles, Newman colonial sale highlights, the Cuomo-Must-Go overstamp and the 'In God We Trus' monument.

To learn more about enlarging polymers, the first bi-metallic U.S. coin, color-coded microparticles, Hobo nickels, crazed psychos, the Victoria, Albert and Dickin medals, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum