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The E-Sylum: Volume 20, Number 25, June 18, 2017, Article 9

NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: JUNE 18, 2017

Chopmark Collectors Club Founder Everett R. Jones

Chopmark Collectors Club member 302 A. Bernard Olij of Malang Indonesia writes:

Chopmarked 1876 dollar I'd like to correct something I read in the Whitman Publications article Chopmarked Coins Featured in 3rd Mega Red". The founder of the Chopmark Collectors Club is Mr. Everett R. Jones of California, USA. Mr. Colin Gullberg is the current editor of our Chopmark News. In the past I have had some contacts with Mr. Jones and I think he deserves the honor to be mentioned here. Mr. Gullberg is doing a wonderful job as our editor and has revived the CCC at some time.

Thank you for the clarification. -Editor

Colin Gullberg writes:

Yes, Everett was the founder of the CCC in 1990. He passed away two years ago. I wrote the chapter on chopmarks for the Mega Red Book but not the press release.

Dennis Tucker writes:

I regret the typo that misidentified Colin as the CCC’s founder without mentioning Everett Jones.

For more information on Jones, see:
Everett Raymond Jones (http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/everett-jones-obituary?pid=1000000170114389&view=guestbook&page=2)

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
CHOPMARKED COINS FEATURED IN 3RD MEGA RED (http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/esylum_v20n24a03.html)

New York City Mayor Philip Hone
Dave Hirt of Frederick, MD writes:

In last week's post on the Erie Canal medal, it mentions Philip Hone, the Mayor of NYC at that time. When his estate was sold in 1852 it included numismatics. The catalog is listed in Gengerke under E.H. Ludlow on 04/28/1852. I remember seeing this catalog offered in a Woodward sale in the 1860's. Woodward stated that it was mostly paintings and other things, but had a few numismatic items.

Thanks, Dave. A search on the Newman Numismatic Portal returned over 50 results for Hone. Some are in our print journal The Asylum, but also in the American Journal of Numismatics, Wayte Raymond's The Stickney 1804 Dollar and Banker's Magazine. -Editor

To view the Newman Numismatic Portal results, see:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/searchwithterms?searchterm=philip%20hone

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
MORE ON THE ERIE CANAL MEDAL (http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/esylum_v20n24a09.html)

Lead Token Lookalikes: England and Lanka
Regarding the Davisson's newsletter article, Kavan Ratnatunga of Sri Lanka writes:

Some of the designs of English lead/pewter tokens illustrated in referenced http://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/1983_BNJ_53_7.pdf and http://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/1984_BNJ_54_11.pdf are interestingly close to lead tokens over 1000 years older issued in Lanka with Brahami inscriptions and illustrated in http://coins.lakdiva.org/OBRW/lead_tokens.html

Thanks. Interesting observation. Below are some illustrations, but I've taken these more or less at random and haven't done comparisons. But there are some commonalities; this would make for an interesting article. -Editor

Early British trade tokens English LEad tokens
English Lead tokens

Lankan lead tokens1 Lankan lead tokens2
Lankan Lead tokens

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
ENGLAND’S FIRST TRADE TOKENS (http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/esylum_v20n23a22.html)

Re-enacting The Hunley
Regarding the 'Lucky Coin' Confederate submarine SS Hunley, Ralph Langham writes:

Among other things I am a Civil War Re-enactor and at the re-enactment of Secessionville as a major in the 79th NY Cameron Highlanders we were present when the Hunley was brought up and got to see a mock-up of it on Boone Plantation in North Charleston. Very impressive, Boone Plantation is the one usually shown in the movies about the Civil War.

What fun! Thanks for your note. -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
HOW LUCKY COIN SUBMARINE HUNLEY WORKED (http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/esylum_v20n24a15.html)

More on Dale Birdsell
Regarding last week's mention of Dale Birdsell, Pete Smith writes:

Ku Klux Klan Tokens book cover At one time I compiled a list of numismatic authors who served prison time. I lost track after the first half dozen. Dale Birdsell was one of them.

Dick Grinolds said that he was not aware of Birdsell's current status. He is still dead. Dale Estin Birdsell was born on June 4, 1920, and died on April 8, 1998. He was a veteran of the Army during World War II and is buried in Quantico National Cemetery in Virginia.

He wrote Ku Klux Klan Tokens, published in 1977 with a second edition published in 1981. Indeed he had insider information as a member of the Klan and a KKK organizer in Arkansas.

Birdsell wrote checks to support the Klan. He was charged with writing more than a million dollars worth of bad cashier's checks. In court he asserted that he was the reincarnation of Nathan Bedford Forrest, founder of the KKK.

I found a copy of the book on my shelf and scanned the cover for illustration. The author's name is not listed on the cover, title page, or anywhere else I could find. -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: JUNE 11, 2017 : More on The Invisible Empire Tokens (http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/esylum_v20n24a10.html)

Decline and Fall In Seven Short Book Spines
Dave Lange writes:

I was perusing the blog messynessychic.com and came across this interesting book photo that might be nice to share with readers.

The decline and Fall book spines

Funny. I like it! -Editor

Coins Salvaged From the SS Cairo
Regarding the salvage of a long-lost WWII coin treasure from the SS Cairo, web site visitor Ian Marshall of the south of France writes:

I saw the article on your web site about the salvage of Indian rupees from city of Cairo sunk by uboat in WWII. The captain was my uncle so I received two coins. With the coins I have the letter from the salvage company explaining that only a few were saved from meltdown for relatives of the survivors. Captain Rogerson was my uncle and won an OBE (Order of the British Empire) for saving so many lives.

Thanks for your note - what a great story, and a family history to be quite proud of! -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
SS CITY OF CAIRO COIN TREASURE SALVAGED (http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n16a32.html)

More the Medal of Honor
Dennis Forgue writes:

Just as a sidebar to the Medal of Honor, I remember back in my days at Rarcoa. I ran the Orders and Decorations Department. We sold US medals and had virtually everything in stock. Trading on medals was somewhat confusing and many in the business used to advertise that you needed to send a stamp along with your payment in order to make it a "trade" not a sale. This really was not true.

At one time we had a set (3 different-Army, Navy, Air Force) of unissued MOH's on display in the window. We got a visit from the FBI responding to a complaint someone had filed. They said they normally did not care about it but had to follow up on the complaint. We decided to eliminate US medals completely and donated a complete set of US medals to the ANA. The MOH's were Unissued, and how those became available was interesting.

After the Vietnam Nam war we had a former supply clerk come in with a group of Navy unissued medals including a MOH. He said that the larger ships in the war had a stock of medals for field awards. At the end of the war when many ships were being decommissioned they were given orders to "deep six" all medals to avoid paperwork and shipping. Of course many went home in duffle bags instead of the ocean. Despite of a so called ban on the sale of all medals, many vets came looking for replacement of various medals for ones they had lost, carrying letters from the War Dept telling them they did not have them and to go to a dealer and buy them. Typical Government Confusion I suppose.

Great story - thanks! -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: JUNE 11, 2017 : More on the Navy Medal of Honor (http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/esylum_v20n24a10.html)

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