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The E-Sylum: Volume 18, Number 26, June 28, 2015, Article 9

NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: JUNE 28, 2015

On the British Museum Continental Dollar
Tom DeLorey writes:

Another great issue! That Continental dollar is amazing!

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: JUNE 21, 2015 : British Museum Continental Dollar (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n25a09.html)

Researching the Castorland Jeton
Chester Sullivan writes:

Let me tell you how excited I was to learn, via The E-Sylum, about the French language Association des Collectioneurs de Jetons-Monnaie. I'm researching the Castorland jeton question from both the French and American (Canadian of course) sides of the Atlantic. The E-Sylum came through yet once again!

Glad to help! Thanks also go, of course, to contributor Yosef Sa'ar for sending in the link to the site. -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
FEATURED WEB SITE: FRENCH TOKEN COLLECTORS ASSOCIATION (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n25a33.html)

The Three Garridebs Counterfeit Notes
Ron Haller-Williams writes:

I'm surprised that Greg Ruby is requesting images of five-pound notes!!! In those days higher-value notes were also fairly common, and the story The Adventure of The Three Garridebs deals NOT "with a printing press and counterfeit 5 pound notes" but with a printing press and counterfeit 100 pound notes! I quote from the story: “The greatest counterfeiter London ever saw. That’s Prescott’s machine, and those bundles on the table are two thousand of Prescott’s notes worth a hundred each and fit to pass anywhere. Help yourselves, gentlemen. Call it a deal and let me beat it.”

Ron provided the following links. Thanks! -Editor

Here's a 1936 specimen:
www.britishnotes.co.uk/news_and_info/picture_library/
englishpictures/whitenotes/peppiatt.php

www.britishnotes.co.uk/news_and_info/picture_library/
englishpictures/whitenotes/peppiatt_£100_liverpool_.jpg

1914:
www.britishnotes.co.uk/news_and_info/picture_library/
englishpictures/whitenotes/nairne.php

www.britishnotes.co.uk/news_and_info/picture_library/
englishpictures/whitenotes/b208fh_100_manchester_1914__7_y.jpg

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
1890'S BANK OF ENGLAND FIVE POUND BANKNOTE IMAGES SOUGHT (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n25a20.html)

Numismatics in The Picture of Dorian Gray?
Larry Dziubek writes:

I was watching the 1945 movie The Picture of Dorian Gray and there is a scene about an hour and 15 minutes into it where Dorian goes to a wall cupboard and brings a small stack of boards to a table. While talking to another man in the room he begins to study some coins in the classic way, looking through a glass and placing them in a tray with circular holes. Not a single word was said regarding coins or what he was handling. It did not play any real part of the story. Curious distraction?

Interesting. Is anyone familiar with this film? -Editor

Colorado's Champion: Rocky Mountain News Token
David Pickup writes:

Here are some photos of a medallion I got yesterday. It is inscribed:

BOAST FOR – DENVER- AND THE – ROCKY MOUNTAIN-
NEWS- THE RECOGNIZED-WANT AD MEDIUM- OF THE WEST

Aylesbury Vale-20150628-01018 Aylesbury Vale-20150628-01016

Well, the Rocky Mountain News is a newspaper from the Denver area. I don't know what the "Colorado's Champion" is all about. Readers? -Editor


Wayne Homren, Editor

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