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WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM FEBRUARY 20, 2011
Among our new subscribers this week are Eric Vanhove, Sheldon Banoff, John C. MacVean, Robert W. Bauswell, Peter Griffin, and William W. Mills. Welcome aboard! We now have 1,411 email subscribers, plus 117 followers on Facebook, including Robert Jenkins and Kevin Stroud. With such a large class of new subscribers this week I was curious to learn where they came from. I sent out some emails and got these replies by publishing time: Eric Vanhove writes: I was doing some research, trying to find out about Atom Damali's books on Ottoman coins, and the recent review of his book came up. I liked what I read, so checked out the rest of the site and subscribed. Another new subscriber writes: I was looking for a numismatic search engine when I stumbled onto the NBS website. Then I started reading the current edition of the newsletter online. It was interesting so I signed up. While most people I know are ambivalent about coins, I find them fascinating. I am an avid collector of proof and mint sets, commemorative coins, and Lincoln cents. I did mention an item from the newsletter in a thread on the USCC (U.S. Coin Collecting) website which may explain some of the other interest. See: uscoin.ning.com This week we open with a report from David Sklow on the results of last week's literature sale, two reviews, and a report on the new home of the Victoria Cross library. In other topics, we hear more about the late Steve Tanenbaum, the Henning counterfeit nickels, and Ed Moy's "Director's Coin for Excellence". To learn more about an enduring puzzle of Julio-Claudian numismatics, Barnes & Noble's ranking of numismatic "book" sales, Switzerland's Münzkabinett Winterthur, a coin picturing decapitation, and which numismatic museum curator is the son of an American diplomat, read on. Have a great week, everyone!
Wayne Homren
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