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Welcome to The E-Sylum: Volume 6, Number 24, June 15, 2003: an electronic publication of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society. Copyright (c) 2003, The Numismatic Bibliomania Society. SUBSCRIBER UPDATE Among recent new subscribers are Peter Dedel and NBS member Paul Harris. Welcome aboard! We now have 566 subscribers. LAKE SALE Fred Lake writes: "Our 69th mail-bid sale of numismatic literature is now available for viewing on our web site at: http://www.lakebooks.com/current.html Selections from the library of John and Nancy Wilson (and other consignors) are contained in the 527-lot sale." JOHN BURNS SHOW SCHEDULE Numismatic literature dealer John H. Burns writes: "I will have a table at the following shows: Mid-America at the Rosemont Convention Center, site of the 1991 and 1999 ANA's. The show will be June 27-29. ANA at the Baltimore Convention Center July 30-Aug. 3. I will have approximately two TONS of books, auction catalogs, pamphlets etc. and other works spanning from 17th-century antiquarian works to in-print Krause, Bowers, Spinks and other titles. I can be contacted at johnh.burns at verizon.net ." CANADIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY PRE-PUBLICATION ORDERS The following news release was submitted by Darryl A. Atchison: The J. Douglas Ferguson Historical Research Foundation and the Numismatic Education Society of Canada are pleased to announce publication of a new Canadian Numismatic Bibliography edited by Darryl A. Atchison, F.C.N.R.S. The Ultimate Book for the Collector of Canadian material. An absolute necessity for the collector who wants to know and understand his coins, tokens, medals or paper money. Over four hundred years of North American numismatic and economic history is covered in this important reference. This is a massive work in two volumes, over 1100 large format pages containing references to books and significant articles, annotated in most cases, with introductory essays. It covers the entire range of works relating to Canada, the French Regime, Pre-Confederation Coinage, Decimal Coinage, Patterns, Newfoundland Coinage, Banks and Banknotes, Biographies, Artists, Engravers, Trade Tokens, Medals, Collectors, Collections, Auction Sales and Fixed Price Lists. Mr. Atchison has spent much of the last eight years compiling this text, assisted by several prominent numismatists who have contributed to its development. Due to the cost of this publication, the quantity printed will be strictly limited to the number of orders received by October 15 th , 2003 with no more than fifty extra copies printed for late orders. Do not be disappointed, order early and take advantage of the special pre-publication price. Can.$ US.$ Regular Price $ 200.00 $140.00 Pre-Publication Price* $ 140.00 $ 98.00 (* = orders received before Oct. 1, 2003) Shipping & Handling within Canada $ 14.00 to USA $14.00 to Europe $ 23.00 $16.00 Dealers, please write or e-mail for details concerning multiple orders: All Orders must be accompanied by full payment Cheques payable to: ?Numismatic Education Society of Canada? c/o Ronald Greene P.O. Box 1351, Victoria, B.C. Canada V8W 2W7 e-mail: ragreene at telus.net We urge members to order as quickly as possible so that we can anticipate the demand for this publication ahead of the upcoming CNA convention in Windsor, Ontario this July 17 - 20. E-SYLUM BOOSTERS I'd like to thank subscribers Neil Rothshild and Nick Graver for their recent efforts to promote The E-Sylum in other venues (Neil on the Colonial Coin Collectors' email list, and Nick in private email to his fellow photography buffs. Our promotion is mostly word of mouth (or should I say, keyboard?). As always, please consider helping to promote The E-Sylum in any numismatic venue where the opportunity presents itself, particularly other online forums. We get our readers the old-fashioned way: one at a time. 1873-CC NO ARROWS DIME DISCOVERY Rusty Goe writes: "For the information of E-Sylum subscribers, I want to share this bit of news from PCGS (Professional Coin Grading Service).. Michael Sherman has confirmed by phone that PCGS graded a discovery specimen of an 1873-CC "NO" Arrows Seated Liberty dime. We noticed in the Population Report that a specimen of this rare suddenly appeared, but we were skeptical. That's when we called PCGS to confirm if it was true. Their representative Michael Sherman checked on it and affirmed that an 1873-CC No Arrows dime had been graded in December 2002. It is in the VG-VF range. (This is not to be confused with the fact that both PCGS and NGC (Numismatic Guaranty Corporation) list an Uncirculated specimen of this date - this is the Eliasberg coin.) For 130 years (or at least since there was interest) it has been believed that only one specimen of the 1873-CC N/A dime existed. This is an Assay Commission coin, saved from melting, eventually passing through the hands of John Haseltine, Stephen Nagy, William Woodin, Rudolph Kohler, Charles M. Williams, and finally in 1950, Louis E. Eliasberg, Jr. It remained in Elaisberg's collection until 1996, when Waldo Bolen purchased it at the Bowers & Merena sale for $550,000. The coin was subsequently sold in a Heritage auction in 1999 for $632,500. After speaking to Michael Sherman at PCGS, my wife was surprised that there had been no press release issued regarding the coin. With the media frenzy surrounding the 1913 Liberty nickel, and the disposition to report any and every discovery in the coin hobby, it seems like the discovery of a second 1873-CC N/A dime would at least be the story of the year. We contacted Coin World and Numismatic News and were told that they had not heard of this new discovery. William Gibbs at Coin World was very interested and agreed that it would be a sensational story. He began researching it. Numismatic News was apathetic. When Michael Sherman was asked why PCGS had not issued a press release, his response was that since the coin has been graded since December, and everyone has had an opportunity to hear about it, the story is old news.. Well, no one I have contacted, from dealers, collectors to the media, knew anything about the coin. We explained to PCGS that we are putting the finishing touch on our book about the coins from the Carson City Mint, and since the acknowledgment of a second specimen of this classic rarity is of paramount importance, we want to be able to revise our text, if necessary. ust as Bowers and Merena has done regarding their offer of $1 million for a 1913 Liberty nickel, we are on the verge of posting an offer of approximately $200 K for the second 1873-CC N/A dime. Any information can be forwarded to: Rusty Goe / Marie Goe Southgate Coins / 5032 S. Virginia St. / Reno, NV 89502 / mariesgate at sbcglobal.net / 775 -322-4455" AUCTION SALES SOUGHT Rusty adds: "Does anyone have a copy of the 1899 J. W. Scott sale of the S. L. Lee Collection? ... for sale, loan, fax a page, or whatever.. Also, I need a copy of prices realized for the John Swan Randall sale in 1878, auctioned by Edward Cogan. Thanks for any help. Email: mariesgate at sbcglobal.net DENVER MINT HARASSMENT COMPLAINT FILED This week the Rocky Mountain News has been following the story of a petition submitted to the U.S. Treasury department by 32 women worked at the Denver Mint "alleging decades of harassment and discrimination by male co-workers and supervisors." "There has been unfair treatment to women in promotions, job assignments, training opportunities - there's been such harassment, and it has created an overall hostile work environment," said Beverly Mandigo Milne, who has worked at the mint since 1978." "The Denver Mint employs 528 people and 107 of them are women, according to Lynn Feiger, the attorney for the women who have complained formally to the U.S. Treasury Department, which operates the mint." U.S. Mint Director Henrietta Holsman Fore "ordered the immediate search of lockers, toolboxes and other areas after the Rocky Mountain News reported Tuesday on the complaint that 32 women workers filed with the U.S. Treasury Department." "The complaint said women have been denied promotions, training and raises; subjected to demeaning sexist comments from men; treated more favorably if they have sexual relationships with some managers;" "Posters of naked women on the walls and pornographic jokes on the government e-mail system have been common for years at the Denver Mint while the top brass in Washington has turned a blind eye, a lawyer representing several women working at the mint said Thursday." http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_2025540,00.html http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_2028392,00.html http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_2034870,00.html NUMISMATIC MUSEUMS Granvyl Hulse, Numismatics International librarian, writes: "I have received a query from an overseas individual asking for the mailing address (not e-mail) of two coin and medal museums in the U.S., two in Europe, and two in Asia (if any). Can you or the group help? [Well, any listing of numismatic museums in the U.S. would include The American Numismatic Association http://www.money.org The American Numismatic Society http://www.numismatics.org/ Other U.S. and overseas museums have been mentioned in previous E-Sylums. Anyone care to pick two in Europe or Asia? -Editor] AMERICAN BANKNOTE COMPANY ADDRESS In response to the earlier query, Dave Ginsburg writes: "The current address of the successor company to American Banknote is: American Banknote Corporation 560 Sylvan Avenue Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632-3119 (201) 568-4400 The company emerged from bankruptcy a few years ago and, I believe, auctioned off their archive of sample stock and bond certificates a few years ago." NUMISMATIST PHOTOS SOUGHT Darryl Atchison writes: "Could you please ask our readers if anyone can supply me with a photographs of Virgil Brand, Maurice Gould, Joseph Hooper and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Norweb that we can publish in our bibliography on Canadian numismatics? I can be contacted at if anyone can help. Thanks." GERMAN-AMERICAN INTERNMENTS Ken Berger writes: "I was not aware of the internment of German-Americans during WW II. However, I do know that during WW I, many German-Americans were forced to register with the government. Just as we hear nothing about the events regarding German-Americans during the second war, we rarely hear anything about their treatment during the first war." WALTER GARRABRANT INFORMATION SOUGHT Roger Siboni writs: "I recently purchased and had restored Walter W. Garrabrant's original copy of Maris' "The Coins of New Jersey". While I have been an avid collector of colonial coins and particularly New Jersey Coppers for some time, I have waited until I could purchase a copy of Maris' book with some interesting provenance. Frankly, I have never heard of Walter Garrabrant, but what came with book fascinated me. It included two newspaper articles circa. 1935 discussing exhibits he arranged of the Fredrick Canfield collection of New Jersey Coppers housed within the New Jersey Historical Society. It listed him as an authority and leading collector of New Jersey Coppers. Additionally, it contained a series of rubbings of the Boyd Maris 4-C, 7-E and 51-G. The 7-E notations suggest that he obtained them from the Lewis collection before they were sold to Boyd. Each of these coins will likely be the top bid getters in the upcoming Ford auction. Also, it also worth mentioning that for over a decade, it has been near impossible to view the Canfield collection of New Jersey Coppers in the New Jersey Historical Society, let alone present an exhibit of them. So, I was hoping some of the readership might shed some light on Garrabrandt. I do not ever recall hearing his name in the pedigree chain of any New Jersey Copper and yet in 1935 he was a top collector. He was chosen to arrange the exhibit for the Canfield collection of the New Jersey Historical Society and he was tied into the collecting community enough to acquire rubbings of some of the rarest and finest New Jersey Coppers in existence. Is there another major New Jersey collection lurking out there we (I) don't know about?" WORLD'S SMALLEST BOOK In previous issues we discussed the smallest numismatic books. This week saw publicity for the world's smallest book, period. "To the naked eye, it looks like a fleck of tile decorated with the Greek letters alpha and omega. But when it is magnified by a factor of 600, its true nature becomes evident - the world's most portable copy of the New Testament." An assistant professor of visual neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created software to enable the writing in gold on a silicon chip, using a font four microns high - about the height of a red blood cell. See the New York Times article for more information: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/09/technology/09TINY.html 18-CENT COIN? A tongue-in-cheek paper titled "What this country needs is an 18-cent piece" was published in the April issue of "Mathematical Intelligencer" and picked up by Forbes magazine. "Despite three attempts and millions of dollars in promotions, the U.S. mint can't get Americans to accept a dollar coin. Maybe it should try an 18-cent coin. So says Jeffrey Shallit, a University of Waterloo (Ont.) computer scientist with a bit of time on his hands. Counting all possible change amounts from 0 to 99 cents, Shallit found that the average transaction, if handled in optimal fashion by the 7-Eleven clerk, involves 4.7 coins. It just so happens that if the Mint ditched the dime and added an 18-cent coin, the average number of coins would fall to 3.9. ... for 41 cents the clerk hands back a quarter, a dime, a nickel and a penny. The Shallit system [selects] two 18-cent coins and a nickel." To read the article and original paper, see: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/0623/058.html http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/Papers/change2.pdf FEATURED WEB SITE This week's featured web site was suggested by Nolan Mims. It is a reference collection of images of counterfeit coins. http://www.cgb.fr/monnaies/articles/faux/indexgb.html Wayne Homren
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