WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM JANUARY 26, 2025

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This week we open with a new podcast episode, two new books, two club newsletters, updates from the Newman Numismatic Portal, a phishing warning, and more.

Other topics this week include glass trade beads in California, medal designer Eugene Daub, reduction punches, the first ANA President, Gerry Fortin, Jim Halperin, an auction preview, coin hoards, collectible counterfeits, a Dickin medal, and Wyoming National Banknotes.

To learn more about Postal Orders used in India, the International Primitive Money Society, ANS Curator Howland Wood, puddles of fire-melted coins, the woman so weighted down with coins that she could barely move, William Jerrems, Jr., the Numismatic Certification Institute (NCI), Presidential documents appointing Carson City Mint officials, a Roman coin counterfeiter's coin molds, zincers, the 1793 Manchester Promissory Halfpenny, the United East India Company, and the National Medal of Science, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum

 
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