Wayne Homren

No new subscribers this week.We have 1,595 email subscribers, plus 190 followers on Facebook (the 199 reported last week was a typo).

Harvey Stack, Jim Duncan and Michael J. Sullivan all reported not receiving their e-mail edition of The E-Sylum last week. Sorry! I'm not sure what happened - I confirmed that their addresses are all still on our list.

This week we open with a numismatic literature sale from Europe and announcements of two new books.Other topics include a web site for early U.S. Mint research, the Washington before Boston medals, a countermarked 1791 Washington cent, Brookgreen Gardens, and Alaska National Bank Notes.

To learn more about the nominee for Director of the U.S. Mint, demonetization, X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, shootin, lynchin and hangin, Clyde Barrow's silver dollar, and a most melancholy catastrophe, read on.Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum