The recent passing of Steve Feller was an unexpected shock. Readers offered additional comments. -Editor

"Terrible news about Steve Feller. A long time ago he invited me to speak at Coe College, and they paid my way. I slept at Steve's home and that night there was a heavy snowfall. In the morning I helped his daughter to make a snowman. A great loss to the world of numismatics in general, and to Judaic numismatics in particular."

"I was surprised to learn that Steve Feller passed away on November 19th. I appreciated Len Augsburger's wonderful obituary and remembrance piece on Steve in last week's issue of The E-Sylum. I learned a number of new facts about him. Thanks for the links that you included as well. I am grateful for the lively email correspondence that I had with Steve in August. Sadly, I never had the chance to meet him in person. I am sorry for the loss of your friend."

Steve was active in the Military Payment Certificate group, and their newsletter MPCGram published a number of tributes. Here are some excerpts. -Editor

I have known Steve for a long time. No, we didn't live in the same town, nor did we go to the same college or work together. But we did collect banknotes and the hobby put us in the same place several times each year. I remember the first time we met, I believe it was at a Memphis Paper Money Show. Steve was walking the bourse floor with a young girl and would tell her about the various items of his interest. I thought to myself that a young child as this would not remember anything he spoke about. I was wrong as this young lady was Steve's daughter, Ray and she has continued going to paper money shows with her father for all these years and she still listens to him. Together they have made presentations about the money used by civilian internees in camps around the world during World War Two. Their studies resulted in numerous discoveries and were documented in a book entitled Silent Witnesses: Civilian Camp Money of World War II. And that young lady has grown up to be a good wife, a fine mother and an outstanding, knowledgeable numismatist in the field her father cherished.

Steve was a college professor and became the Director of the Physics Department at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. As such, he usually traveled to conferences around the world during the summers. Somehow. he was always able to find an internment camp in the immediate vicinity of the meeting that he could visit. One such visit was to the Isle of Mann located equidistant between England and Ireland in the Irish Sea. This island was used as an internment camp for Axis civilians during World War Two.

Steve explored the island and some of the hotels where the internees were lodged and gathered what information anyone he met could provide.

About seven or eight years ago, I received a call from Steve asking if I knew of an internment camp in Texas known as Crystal City. I replied that I did, and that it was about 200 miles from me southwest of San Antonio. Also, that I had a few tokens from there. Steve asked if he and Ray flew into Austin, could we make a trip? Sure, I replied, I can pick you up at the airport, provide room and board and the four of us...

The camp was very interesting and in better condition than most of the POW camps I have visited but still suffered from the hot south Texas weather for over fifty years. We saw the swimming pool that was built by the internees with two sets of dressing rooms because the Germans would not use the same facilities as the Japanese.

Steve and I met via a phone call. He and Barbara had written an article for The Numismatist on Operation Bernhard. I was excited about it and called Steve to discuss it (Operation Bernhard). We bonded immediately. I believe that the article appeared in the December 1981 The Numismatist.

I invited Steve and family to visit as soon as possible for a WWII numismatic meeting...

At that meeting, I learned the answer to a mystery. In 1979 I had received an order for fifteen copies of Schwan-Boling I--World War II Military Currency--from a small college book store. It was the only such order that I ever received. I learned at that meeting that the books had been from the Coe College book store. Coe was where Steve taught physics. In addition, Steve taught a class on World War II numismatics during a mini term between the major college terms.