The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 5, February 4, 2007, Article 24

NOTES ON RECENT NUMISMATIC PERIODICALS

E-Sylum subscribers are a busy bunch - in reviewing recent periodicals
a number of articles caught my eye, and it turns out (not surprisingly)
that all were authored by E-Sylum subscribers and contributors:

The February 2007 issue of Bank Note Reporter has an illustrated
article by Fred Reed on Civil War scrip notes payable in U.S. Postage
Currency.  Kerry Rodgers, has an article in the same issue on
Jonathan Swift's numismatic connections.

Paul Gilkes' article on p5 of the January 29, 2007 Coin World
discusses ephemera from the estate of numismatist William Cutler
Atwater.  Saved from the landfill by Atwater's grandson, the files
include catalogs, invoices and correspondence relating to the famed
Atwater collection, sold by B. Max Mehl in 1946.  The collection
had an example of every U.S. coin from 1793 to 1920, including two
1804 dollars.

Daniel Gosling has an article in the January/February CN Journal
(published by the Canadian Numismatic Association) about his trip
to the United Kingdom with visits to Soho House, The Birmingham Mint,
the Birmingham City Archives and the Birminham Museum & Art Gallery,
the Royal Mint in Llantrisant, South Wales, The National Archives,
the British Museum and Spink in London.   The Birmingham City Archives
are the home of the papers of coiners Matthew Boulton and James Watt.
The Soho House was the home of Boulton from 1766 until his death in
1809.  Gosling calls it "a numismatic must-see."

Tom DeLorey has an article on "The Coins of Celestia" in the February
2007 COINage Magazine (p70), about the wonderfully whimsical yet half-
serious coins issued by James Mangan in the 1960s for the "Nation of
Celestial Space".

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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