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The E-Sylum: Volume 15, Number 45, October 28, 2012, Article 9

NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: OCTOBER 28, 2012

H.D. Allen's Confederate Currency Research
George Tremmel writes:

As an update to your review, the 1917-19 H.D. Allen Numismatist articles were published in book form. In 1945, R. Green reprinted the 1915 William West Bradbeer work, Confederate and Southern State Currency. In the last part of the book (pages163-277) he also reprinted the Allen articles.

Fred Reed pointed this out, too. The Fricke-Reed book did indeed mention the reprinting of the Allen work in Bradbeer's book (see p251), but I forgot about that when writing my review. Still, it's a shame his great work was not published as a separate book back in his day - he would probably be much better known among numismatists today. -Editor

George Tremmel adds:

I agree that it’s unfortunate that Allen is not as well known as Bradbeer. His articles are important to students of Confederate financial history.

I'd also like to mention that Marty Davis and I (co-authors with Pierre Fricke on the 2010 Confederate Interim Depository Receipts book) have recently contracted with McFarland & Co. to publish a book titled Parole, Pardon, Pass and Amnesty Documents of the Civil War: An Illustrated History. This topic probably will appeal more to Civil War History buffs than to numismatic readers.

I never cease to be amazed at what our E-Sylum readers study and collect, so don't be surprised if this mention drums up some interest for the book. -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: BOOK REVIEW: HISTORY OF COLLECTING CONFEDERATE STATES PAPER MONEY (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n44a06.html)

More on the Copyright Symbol on Coins
Yossi Dotan writes:

The following coins issued by the Cook Islands feature a copyright symbol: KM-300, 100 dollars 1996, and KM-1095, 30 dollars 1999. Both are in .999 fine gold and have a colored reverse.

Unfortunately, I have no image for KM-300. It marks the Year of the Mouse. The reverse depicts Mickey Mouse sailboarding. The copyright notice © DISNEY is inscribed on the reverse at 9 o'clock.

Cook Islands KM-1095 SM2 Attached is an image of the reverse of KM-1095 which I found in a publication of the Singapore Mint. It depicts Bugs Bunny windsurfing and bears the trademark and copyright notice ™ & © WARNER BROS. It was issued to mark the Year of the Rabbit.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: THE COPYRIGHT SYMBOL ON COINS (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n44a07.html)

Centesimus Undequinquagesimal Anniversaries
Regarding Ron Abler's tongue-in-cheek item on 149th Anniversaries, Martin Purdy writes:

I assume this is intended as a joke rather than a serious suggestion! The application of math to Latin and the chopping and mixing of word elements in this way just doesn't work. At the risk of taking the matter too seriously, "149th" in Latin would be "centesimus undequinquagesimus", so at a stretch I guess you could anglicize that to refer to a "centesimus undequinquagesimal" anniversary ...

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: VOCABULARY WORD: QUASQUIBIDUODECENTENNIAL (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n44a08.html)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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