New subscribers this week include: Mike McDaniel, courtesy of Dave Perkins, Prof. Shaul Ladany, courtesy of Bill Rosenblum, and Lee Barrett. Welcome aboard! We now have 2,009 subscribers.

Guess what today is, folks! It's the anniversary of The E-Sylum, which debuted on September 4, 1998. See our searchable online archive for all back issues.
www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_archive.html

You can also access the complete table of contents here. We've published nearly 19 volumes: 946 issues containing 21,391 articles in all.
www.coinbooks.org/esylum_toc.html

This week we open with a great new issue of our print journal The Asylum, four new books and two reviews. Other topics this week include the Institute of Numismatic and Philatelic Studies at Adelphi University, the Maris sale, the U.S. coinage of 1815, the two dollar bill. ISIS coinage, and Australia's new tactile banknote.

To learn more about Fugio coppers, the 1964 Morgan dollar, cockled parchment, dealer Luther Bryant, the Cursing Half Noble, Bobby the Welshman, George the Rat, the Erection of Wilton Church and what galoshes had to do with it, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum