New subscribers this week include: Rod Frechette, Michael Garofalo, and Steve Soltis. Welcome aboard! We now have 5,968 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(but let me know if they are located in the European Union). Contact me at whomren@gmail.com anytime regarding your subscription, orquestions, comments or suggestions about our content.

This week is the anniversary of our first issue, published September 4, 1998! This week we open with a new issue of our print journal, two new books, a journal, a book prizeand a prize-winning numismatic literature exhibit.

Other topics this week include the Blind Coin Collector, James Cagney's Medal of Freedom, political overstamps on paper money, money with an expiration date, dragengraving, Elston Bradfield, the first 2019-W San Antonio quarters, the first Morgan dollar struck in San Francisco, Conder tokens, the Great Book Scare and Ryan Presley'sBlood Money art.

To learn more about Chinese coin amulets, Jewish banknotes, Byzantine coin books, the Future of Numismatics, priceless books for sale, ISIS coinage, stamp scrip, Norman silverpennies, Theodore Vail, book dust, and the toucan and the two-headed cow, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum