The E-Sylum v21n30 July 29, 2018
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The E-Sylum
An electronic publication of
The Numismatic Bibliomania Society
Volume 21, Number 30, July 29, 2018
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WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM JULY 29, 2018
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JOURNAL OF EARLY AMERICAN NUMISMATICS FIRST ISSUE
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NEW BOOK: PIONEER AMERICANISTS
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COIN WORLD REDESIGN IMPLEMENTED
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NEWMAN PORTAL ADDS THE VIRGINIA NUMISMATIST
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MORE ON CIRCULATION/CIRCULATED CAMEO
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MORE ON CONTINENTAL DOLLAR RESEARCH
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BEARDLESS BREEN ON RADIO WITH 1943 BRONZE CENT
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WALTER BREEN AT COIN WORLD AND BEYOND
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BOOK CUTTING IDENTIFICATION THOUGHTS
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NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: JULY 29, 2018
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PNG AUTHENTICATION CERTIFICATES
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NUMIS-MAILRS
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VOCABULARY TERM: BASE LINE
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WILLIAM FREDERICK FRATCHER (1867-1947)
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THE FIRST ANS ERIC P. NEWMAN VISITING SCHOLAR
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ANA ANNOUNCES 2018 HIGHEST HONOR AWARDS
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2018 ANA PHILADELPHIA WFOM VOLUNTEER BUTTONS
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PCGS TO EXHIBIT BRASHER DOUBLOON AT 2018 WFOM
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WILLIAM AND CHARLES BARBER EXHIBITS AT 2018 WFOM
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ANA STUDENT EDUCATIONAL KITS
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STACK'S BOWERS HONG KONG PRIMITIVE MONEY LOTS
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STACK'S BOWERS ANA PRIMITIVE MONEY HIGHLIGHTS
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HIGHLIGHTS OF HERITAGE AUGUST 2018 PLATINUM SALE
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NUMISMATIC NUGGETS: JULY 29, 2018
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ARCHIVES INTERNATIONAL SALE 49
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HORNBY ISLAND MUNICIPAL TRADE TOKENS
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WORCESTERSHIRE MEDAL SERVICE WINS CONTRACT
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SERIAL NO. 1 CANADIAN $20 NOTE FOUND
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NEW HONG KONG BANKNOTES UNVEILED
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CHINESE HELL MONEY
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VENEZUELA DROPS TWO MORE ZEROS
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ZIMBABWE'S MONEY CHANGERS
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FRANCE CONSIDERS ELIMINATING SMALLEST COINS
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CASHLESS STORES AND RESTAURANTS ON THE RISE
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EVERLEDGER: BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY FOR ART WORLD
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IN OTHER NEWS: JULY 29, 2018
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WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM JULY 29, 2018
New subscribers this week include:
Kevin McCandless and
Erik Goldstein.
Welcome aboard! We now have 5,776 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 at gmail.com anytime regarding your subscription, or questions, comments or suggestions about our content.
This week we open with the Journal of Early American Numismatics, a Coin World redesign, updates from the Newman Numismatic Portal, and more readers thoughts on the origin of the Continental Dollar.
Other topics this week include the discovery 1943 bronze cent, PNG Authentication Certificates, Numis-Mailrs, the ANA World's Fair of Money exhibit and auction highlights, father and son Mint Engravers William and Charles Barber, primitive money, medal manufacturing, and basket-case economy banknotes.
To learn more about Auctori Plebis tokens, circulated cameos, the U.S. Mint Bicentennial Medal, Undulating Base Lines, Beetle Leg Money,
Tampang Tin Hat Money, the King of Yap Island,
nymphs and frolicking dolphins, Walter Breen's Piece de Merde and Thomas Paine's coin collection, read on. Have a great week, everyone!
Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum
JOURNAL OF EARLY AMERICAN NUMISMATICS FIRST ISSUE
The press release announces the first issue of the brand-new Journal of Early American Numismatics.
-Editor
The first issue of the American Numismatic Society’s Journal of Early American Numismatics
(JEAN) has shipped to readers. Replacing The Colonial Newsletter (CNL), JEAN expands on the
depth and breadth of early numismatics in the Americas. At 236 pages, issue 1.1 features five articles:
1. Fiscal Paper and the Financing of The Revolutionary War: The Link between Speculation
in Public Securities and Connecticut Coppers, by JEAN’s editor Christopher R. McDowell
2. (Re-)Discovery: Yale’s Second and Third Noe II-A New England Shillings, by B. D. R. Hellings
3. The Evolution of Spanish and Colonial Coinage and its Influence on the United States, by
Brian Stickney
4. Higley Tokens: The Value of Three Pence, by Joseph Daragan
5. The Mysterious Auctori Plebis Tokens, by Jeff Rock
JEAN will be published in June and December of each year, with article submissions
anonymously peer-reviewed on a rolling basis by scholars in American numismatics.
The ANS is honoring all current CNL subscriptions in 2018. New subscriptions (and renewed subscriptions beginning with June 2019) are $60 for the calendar year (two issues) plus $5
shipping and handling. New subscribers starting after July 2018 will receive a catch-up copy of issue 1.1 (June 2018).
To submit an article for possible publication, email it to editor Christopher McDowell at
CRMcDowell at strausstroy.com. Emma Pratte (epratte at numismatics.org) handles new
subscriptions and subscription fulfillment.
Please suggest this journal to your public or university library.
Print ISSN: 2577-5774
Digital ISSN: 2577-5782
To read the complete article, see:
Journal of Early American Numismatics (was Colonial Newsletter)
(http://numismatics.org/store/cnl/)
Christopher McDowell adds:
We are well underway with the next issue of JEAN. I hope to tackle at least one Red Book colonial coinage series an issue and present to our readers the definitive article on the coinage. Issue #2 of JEAN will take on all the mysteries of the Rhode Island ship medal and challenge conventional wisdom that it is an English propaganda piece. In addition, we will be presenting some very new and exciting information on counterfeit coining in New York City during the 1780s.
Gary Trudgen, one of our old friends and a past editor of CNL, has been very hard at work digging deep into the Atlee Brewery story. The old New York City brewery, which eventually become nothing more than a front for illegal counterfeiting, was the early gathering place of die-sinkers and coin-makers who went on to strike several colonial coinages with some even finding work at the U.S. Mint after it opened. I hope to have Issue #2 in our subscribers’ hands right before Christmas so it can be enjoyed over the New Year.
The new publication has been long-awaited, and "turns it up a notch" for the level and quality of research, writing, and editing. This wasn't a name change for the sake of a name change - it was a substantive makeover taking an already great publication and making it even better. At 236 pages the debut issue is more like a full book, and well worth the subscription cost.
-Editor
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
JOURNAL OF EARLY AMERICAN NUMISMATICS LAUNCHED
(http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/esylum_v21n22a10.html)
NEW BOOK: PIONEER AMERICANISTS
Numismatists and numismatic bibliophiles have all caught the collecting bug. While non-numismatic, this new book from Oak Knoll Press looks at the lives of eight "Pioneer Americanists", early dealers and collectors of Americana, the important early books, periodicals and ephemera relating to America.
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THE PIONEER AMERICANISTS: EARLY COLLECTORS, DEALERS, AND BIBLIOGRAPHERS.
Graffagnino, J. Kevin, Terese Austin, Jayne Ptolemy, and Brian L. Dunnigan (eds.).
• Ann Arbor, MI: William L. Clements Library, 2017.
• 8.75 x 11 inches
h• ardcover, dust jacket
• 230 pages
• ISBN: 9781881606093
• Price: $50.00
The Pioneer Americanists is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900. Here are autobiographical and contemporary biographical sketches of White Kennett, Isaiah Thomas, James Lenox, Joseph Sabin, John Carter Brown, Lyman Copeland Draper, George Brinley, Jr., and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries.
Illustrations from the remarkable collections of the William L. Clements Library and other leading institutional archives complement the texts to provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation, collecting, and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information, enlightenment, and inspiration.
For more information, or to order, see:
THE PIONEER AMERICANISTS: EARLY COLLECTORS, DEALERS, AND BIBLIOGRAPHERS.
(https://www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/131308/j-kevin-graffagnino-jayne-ptolemy-terese-austin-brian-l-dunnigan/pioneer-americanists-early-collectors-dealers-and-bibliographers-the)
COIN WORLD REDESIGN IMPLEMENTED
The print and digital versions of Coin World have undergone a makeover. An Editorial in the August 13, 2018 issue by Managing Editor
William T. Gibbs describes the changes. With permission, we're republishing it here. Thanks to Bill for sending the cover image used here.
It looks nice!
-Editor
Our redesign and renewed
commitment
to additional editorial
content, begun
last issue in our August monthly,
continues this week in our
first weekly issue for the month.
As with our August monthly,
this weekly issue features an increased
number of pages — 52,
to be precise, a bump up from
the 36- and 44-page issues we
have been publishing recently.
That extra space will be used
for expanded news, features,
columns, and departments.
This week, I would first like
to draw attention to a new regular
feature for the weekly issues,
called “Coin Values Spotlight.â€
This new column will focus on
a small number of coins, often
just one or two pieces, by exploring
a little bit of their history
and examining how they
have been doing in the marketplace
over the past 10 years.
In other changes, our regular
columns — staff-written ones
like “Readers Ask†and freelance
pieces like Q. David Bowers’
“The Joys of Collectingâ€
and Bill O’Rourke’s “Found in
Rolls,†are getting more space.
This will especially be important
for columns like Michael
Fahey’s “Detecting Counterfeits,â€
John Wexler’s “Varieties
Notebook†and John Roberts’
“About VAMs†columns since
those authors often rely on detailed
photographs to illustrate
diagnostic points on the coins
they are discussing.
We are also revamping Pages
14 and 15, to make our Editorial
commentary more inviting,
including the use of more images.
The Guest Commentary and
Letter to the Editor columns
are your columns — please
consider a submission offering
your opinions or insights on the
issues collectors face today. We
will also share some of the best
comments we receive at our
Facebook page and on the articles
published at our website.
The changes appearing this
week are by no means the only
editorial changes you will be
seeing in the weeks ahead. I
hope to introduce some new
columns, including a regular
one about tokens from around
the world. And if you have a
column topic you would like to
see, contact me.
Let me know what you think
about these changes. We are always
seeking to improve what
we do.
To visit the Coin World web site, see:
https://www.coinworld.com/
NEWMAN PORTAL ADDS THE VIRGINIA NUMISMATIST
The latest addition to the Newman Numismatic Portal is The Virginia Numismatist. Project Coordinator Len Augsburger provided the following report.
-Editor
With the permission of the Virginia Numismatic Association (VNA), Newman Portal has added The Virginia Numismatist for the period 1965 to 2012. Issues were scanned at the Library of Virginia in Richmond, VA under Newman Portal sponsorship.
While including the usual updates on local numismatic events, the publication also presents numerous feature articles such as Richard Doty’s “Virginia Numismatics at the Smithsonian,†as found in the March 1999 issue. I also enjoyed Tom Kays’ “Digging up the First Federal Coins in Virginia†from the Summer 2003 issue.
Newman Portal recognizes Tom Kays and Dave Ellison of the VNA, and Errol Somay of the Library of Virginia for their assistance with this project.
Images:
• Front cover of the October, 1965 issue of The Virginia Numismatist.
• 1794 half dime dug in Virginia, from the Summer 2003 issue.
Link to Virginia Numismatist on Newman Portal:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/publisherdetail/527595
MORE ON CIRCULATION/CIRCULATED CAMEO
Newman Numismatic Portal Project Coordinator Len Augsburger writes:
The E-Sylum of July 22 noted the term “circulated cameo,†and several variants thereof. The earliest usage found on the Newman Portal dated to 2007, in the Chicago Coin Club Chatter, and was used in the context of circulated Barber coinage. The term is also found occasionally in the publications of the Liberty Seated Collectors Club.
There is a theme here – circulated 19th century American silver coinage is sometimes found with the “two-tone†or “circulated cameo†effect, typically darker fields contrasting with lighter devices. It’s a matter of taste, but advanced collectors tend to like them. Attached is an example from the Newman II sale (Heritage, 11/2013), lot 34619, an 1895-O Barber half dollar (realized $223.25).
Link to Chicago Coin Club Chatter (2007):
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/544089?page=35
Link to Newman II image collection on Newman Portal:
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/imagecollection/511938
I check the Newman Portal almost reflexively now, but I didn't in this case. With its vast store of pre-1923 out-of-copyright numismatic material, it's the ideal place to research the creation and evolution of numismatic terminology. While it doesn't prove the terms weren't used earlier (in some document not yet in the portal, or one where the text was OCR'd incorrectly) this does confirm that the term "Circulated Cameo" was used at least as early as 2007. Thanks!
-Editor
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
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