New subscribers this week include: Amandeep Jassal andMitch Fraas.Welcome aboard! We now have 6,731 subscribers.

Thank you for reading The E-Sylum. If you enjoy it, please send me the email addresses of friends you think may enjoy it as well and I'll send them a subscription. Contact me at whomren@gmail.com anytime regarding your subscription, or questions, comments or suggestions about our content.

This week we open with updates from the Newman Numismatic Portal and the estate of J.S.G. Boggs, reader comments and more.

Other topics this week include the PAN and Central States shows, coin art, gold ingots, free-standing medals, William Idler, the Willard hotel, auction previews, coin finds, banknotes of Persia and Bangladesh, coupon capers, coin stashes, and a big bill boa.

To learn more about numismatic superstitions, the British Museum, Irish Limerick Soviet notes, Barcelona Olympic medals, the Cat and Mouse medal, $50 gold patterns, Greenback deprecation, the Libertas Americana medal, Admiral Vernon medals, the Dollar Bank of Pittsburgh, Don Everhart, and the New Orleans coin hoard free-for-all, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum