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WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM MARCH 30, 2014
Our new subscribers this week include six numismatic interns: Chris Salladin, David Diegmueller, David Sunshine, Evan Brooke, Ian Connor, and Zeke Wischer, all courtesy of the Professional Numismatists Guild, Inc.; other new subscribers include Nick Boyd, David Carr, John Taylor, William Hearn, and Marielle of CGB. Welcome aboard! We have 1,717 email subscribers.
This week we open with word of three new numismatic books, followed by three remembrances of recently departed numismatists. Questions from readers include topics such as Bushnell's numismatic notes, the George Earle collection, auction sales of auction sale catalogs and medals of the Fenian Brotherhood and a Confederate prison camp. Other topics include the Royal Mint's new anti-counterfeiting process (iSIS), the new baseball commemorative, National Bank Notes, token & medal maker Schwaab of Milwaukee, and the large head Wass, Molitor $20 gold piece. To learn more about French patterns and piéforts, Henry Cook of Boston, Mexican silver coins from the Confederate Treasury, Numismatic PANDAs and SOBs, and the unkempt mane of Spartan king Lycurgus, read on. Have a great week, everyone!
Wayne Homren
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