"Here is a coin gift Christmas card that I have, that is kind of neat. Merry Christmas!"

Very cool. Thanks! -Editor

"Compliments of the season to you and yours Wayne. Thank you also for such an interesting year of a weekly diet of coin facts to feed the soul. I feel totally nourished and ready to face 2023. Very best wishes. "

Thank you! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. -Editor

Here's a great numismatic Christmas card sent along by Ted Banning. Thanks. -Editor

"Through a generous and kind gesture by Katie (Jaeger) DeSilva I was able to add two wonderful pieces to my collection of works by Robert Lovett Sr. and sons. Pictured below are original miniature portraits of Robert Sr. and his wife Anna Doubleday. Katie is a direct descendant of Robert through his son George Hampden Lovett and these had been handed down through the family to Katie. The following is an assessment of these portrait " Matching miniature portraits, oil on ivory, in blackwood frames trimmed in brass, with glass covering the portraits. Portrait ovals measure 3 high x 2-1/2 wide. Frames measure 5-1/2 high by 4-7/8 wide. Artist, though clearly a highly skilled miniature portraitist likely graduated from the National Academy of Design, is unidentified. Painted between 1824-1840. Portraits assessment provided by Dr. William Gerdts, Professor Emeritus of CUNY Graduate Center and Carrie Rebora Barrett, American Paintings Curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "

"Katie co-authored "100 Greatest American Tokens And Medals" with Q. David Bowers published by Whitman Publishing in 2007. She was author of "A Guide Book of United States Tokens and Medals" published by Whitman in 2008, as well as numerous other articles in numismatic publications. In 2006 she recieved the ANA Heath Literary Award and in 2007 the Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Award. And was an inspiration to me in my early collecting endeavors."

Very nice! -Editor