I ordered one for our library and am very glad I did! Dick has packed an amazing amount of information in this volume and his bibliography and index are enormously helpful. This was obviously a labor of love and I, for one, am very grateful for his hard work!

This little tidbit was in our latest issue of NOW NEWS. (Vol. 53 No.3 Fall 2015.) (Numismatists of Wisconsin) Perhaps a candidate for 'Most Used Individual Numismatic Book'.

I was browsing an old 1938 book "Mathematical Snapshots" when I stumbled on this problem illustrated with coins. I immediately thought of your young numismatists. Maybe math will not deter them from being interested in coin collecting but it seems to me a fun activity to test this problem.

They are listed in McElroy's Philadelphia city directories of 1852 and 1853 as machinists located at 461 Callowhill St. They made coin presses for the U.S. Mint. They issued a token (Wright 722) dated 1855 with an image of a coin press made for the Republic of Peru. Unfortunately I don't own this token.

While researching artists of coins and medals in Philadelphia City directories I learned that Joseph Morgan and Arthur Orr were neighbors - they lived next door to each other. You can imagine their walk home from their foundry shop (as I remember it wasn't far). But even if they rode home in a carriage they undoubtedly talked to each other of the day's activities. Wouldn't it be interesting to overhear those conversations?

Congratulations on Classical Numismatic Group's 100th catalog and thanks for publishing the well written press release/history of this endeavor.

For many years my only source of information on Byzantine coinage came from CNG's catalogs. I just paged through my copy of number XIX, February 19, 1992 which featured an all Byzantine offering with many rarities that at that time I thought I would never own; I'm still looking for them though I have made a bit of progress. So many coins, so little time.

What a gift CNG - thanks, Victor, for pursuing the ancient world and bringing us these treasures.

Brian Edge's article in the Token Corresponding Society Bulletin of September 2007 {Vol.8, no.12} concerns these tokens. There are pieces for ten known venues in Northern England, plus a manufacturer's advertising ticket.

On page 159 of his book "The First Dictionary of Paranumismatica", Brian describes how two men dressed as Charlie Chaplin were charged with creating a disturbance in Manchester, after scattering a number of these brass tokens on the pavements of the city for the purpose of advertising

I thought the son's name was Doug. He did a lot of work with Neal Shafer and I on the Panic Scrip book.