WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM JUNE 30, 2019

New subscribers this week include: Brett Charville. Welcome aboard! We now have 5,946 subscribers.

Thank you for reading The E-Sylum. If you enjoy it, please send me the email addresses of friends you think may enjoy it as well and I'll send them a subscription (but let me know if they are located in the European Union). Contact me at whomren@gmail.com anytime regarding your subscription, or questions, comments or suggestions about our content.

For those who are American Numismatic Association members, if you haven't voted yet, tonight is your last chance - ballots must be received by July 1st. If they have your email address you probably received voting instructions by email. For more information see: https://www.money.org/election.

This week we open with an update on the NBS Hamelberg Library tour, Kolbe & Fanning literature sale highlights, more literature offerings from the Krause Publications library, and six new books.

Other topics this week include the plight of women adjusters at the Philadelphia Mint, apothecary weights, famous coin thieves, Saint-Gaudens' model Hettie Anderson, collector Harry X Boosel, the Royal Mint's Richard Yeo, the 1854-S Half Eagle, the 1894-S Dime, and the Royal Canadian Mint's new laser coloring technology.

To learn more about Calciati's Corpus Nummorum Siculorum, the 1792 silver and non-silver center cents, countermarked Stone Mountain halves, silver ingots of the U.S. mints, banknotes of the U.K., dappled surfaces, Blasto and Raptopoulos, plasmonic colouring, the third Philadelphia Mint, inflatable grandmothers and the coin collectors crying towel, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum

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