ABOUT THIS ISSUE: JUNE 22, 2025

Outside of a great Nummis Nova dinner, the week was a quiet one numismatically. I'd been planning to go up to the Whitman Baltimore show on Thursday, but I had some dental surgery in the morning and decided to stay home instead. I'd already spent hours in traffic the day before in a horrible downpour where 3 or 4 inches of water pooled on the Capitol Beltway. Another storm was forecast and arrived forcefully in the late afternoon, knocking our power out for 45 minutes before dinner. Sorry to miss everyone at the show, but staying away was a good decision.

Friday and the weekend were beautiful, hot and sunny days. After going out to dinner with my family Saturday and working on The E-Sylum for a while, I decided to go out for another walk. I'd been gradually lengthening my walks and this time I decided to try the path around a nearby lake. I've been living here since 2006 and hadn't realized that there were two more lakes behind that one. So I kept walking and walking, making it back home not long before sundown. Very peaceful - I'll be taking that route again. 14,632 steps on my pedometer Saturday, a new record for this year. Here are some photos. -Editor

Wayne Homren
Wayne Homren is the founding editor of The E-Sylum and a consultant for the Newman Numismatic Portal. His collecting interests at various times included U.S. Encased Postage Stamps, merchant counterstamps, Pittsburgh Obsolete paper money, Civil War tokens and scrip, Carnegie Hero Medals, charge coins and numismatic literature. He also collects and has given presentations on the work of Money Artist J.S.G. Boggs. In the non-numismatic world he's worked in artificial intelligence, data science, and as a Program Manager for the U.S. Department of Defense.

Garrett Ziss
Garrett Ziss is a numismatic collector and researcher, with a focus on American paper money and early U.S. silver and copper coins. He is also a part-time U.S. coin cataloger for Heritage Auctions. Garrett assists Editor Wayne Homren by editing and formatting a selection of articles and images each week. When he's not engaged in numismatics, Garrett is pursuing a Master's Degree in Quantitative Economics at the University of Pittsburgh.

Pete Smith
Numismatic researcher and author Pete Smith of Minnesota has written about early American coppers, Vermont coinage, numismatic literature, tokens and medals, the history of the U.S. Mint and much more. Author of American Numismatic Biographies, he contributes original articles to The E-Sylum often highlighting interesting figures in American numismatic history.

Greg Bennick
Greg Bennick (www.gregbennick.com) is a keynote speaker and long time coin collector with a focus on major mint error coins and US counterstamps. He is on the board of both CONECA and TAMS and enjoys having in-depth conversations with prominent numismatists from all areas of the hobby. Have ideas for other interviewees? Contact him anytime on the web or via instagram @minterrors.

John Nebel
Numismatist, photographer, and ANS Board member and Fellow John Nebel of Boulder, CO helped the ANA and other clubs like NBS get online in the early days of the internet, hosting websites gratis through his Computer Systems Design Co. To this day he hosts some 50 ANA member club sites along with our coinbooks.org site, making the club and our E-Sylum archive available to collectors and researchers worldwide.

Bruce Perdue
Encased coinage collector (encasedcoins.info) Bruce Perdue of Aurora, Illinois has been the volunteer NBS webmaster from its early days and works each week to add the latest E-Sylum issue to our archive and send out the email announcement.