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This week we open with an anniversary - our own! The e-mail newsletter we now call The E-Sylum was inaugurated with a short message on the morning of Friday, September 4, 1998. For atrip down Memory Lane, see the online archive on our web site, which holds all 999 issues and 23,235 articles published before today. Welcome to our 20th year and 1,000th issue.

Other topics this week include So-Called Dollars, Kagin's auction cover design contest, the Apostrophe sales, Newman Numismatic Portal additions, the Shekel Prize, Collectors' Monthlypublisher John Baptist Gardella, Continental dollars, early Hawaiian paper money, and the International Bond & Share Society.

To learn more about U.S. Legal Tender Notes, an 1853 visit to the U.S. Mint, the Charles J. Ricard Napoleon medal, numismatic chairs, the 1745 Lima Treasure, a counterfeit Massachusetts half cent,the Salvador Dali King David medal, Cypriot banknotes, scripophily, signevierists, and the Third Degree Knicker Pie Eater's Club, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum