The E-Sylum v16#08 February 24, 2013

Sun Feb 24 20:45:46 PST 2013

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The E-Sylum

  An electronic publication of
  The Numismatic Bibliomania Society

Volume 16, Number 08, February 24, 2013
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WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM FEBRUARY 24, 2013
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KOLBE & FANNING 128TH MAIL-BID SALE ANNOUNCED
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NEW BOOK: A GUIDE BOOK OF U.S. COINS. 2014
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NEW BOOK: SOUTH ASIAN COINS AND PAPER MONEY – INDIAN EDITION
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BOOK REVIEW: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF U.S. SILVER DOLLARS, 1794-1804
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GERALD "JERRY" BUSS 1934 -2013
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MORE ON THE RUTH HILL WORLD BANKNOTE COLLECTION
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NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: FEBRUARY 24, 2013
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ON THE FATE OF NUMISMATIC SCRAPBOOK AND WORLD COINS MAGAZINES
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MARK FERGUSON, H.O. GRANBERG, AND THE DEXTER 1804 DOLLAR
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A STETHOSCOPE MEDAL
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QUERY: POST-1793 BANK OF SOUTH CAROLINA NOTES AUCTION RECORD SOUGHT
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TANENBAUM COUNTERSTAMP COLLECTION LISTING OFFERED
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MORE WEB RESOURCES FOR NUMISMATIC RESEARCHERS
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FIRST COINVESTORS AND THE SWIATEK-BREEN COMMEMORATIVE BOOK
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THE UNITED STATES POSTAL GUIDE AND OFFICIAL ADVERTISER
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QUERY: COINAGE MAGAZINE ARTICLES ON CHINA SOUGHT
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HOW MANY COUNTRIES ARE THERE IN THE WORLD?
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A CHART OF THE VALUE OF THE U.S. CENT
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MAN OFFERS CHOICE OF $5 BILL OR SILVER DOLLAR FOR FREE
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WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM FEBRUARY 24, 2013

New subscribers this week include 
Ross McKenzie, 
Karl Newman, 
Robert Stewart, and
Dusty Royer.
Welcome aboard!
We have 1,630 email subscribers, plus 213 followers on Facebook.

This week we open with a reminder about the upcoming Kolbe & Fanning numismatic literature sale closing and information on three new numismatic books.

To learn more about Jerry Buss, Ruth Hill's banknote collection, H.O. Granberg's safe, Dr. Laennec's Window in the Breast, and Tom Sawyer's Weird Uncle Silas, read on.   Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum

KOLBE & FANNING 128TH MAIL-BID SALE ANNOUNCED

David Fanning forwarded a reminder of the 
Kolbe & Fanning 128th numismatic literature mail-bid sale, which closes February 28th.    And I managed to lose it.   Sorry - it's been a rough week for The E-Sylum; my laptop has been out of commission since Tuesday due to a virus.  I'm back in business now.  Anyway, below is a repeat of their original announcement for the sale.  Don't forget to bid!
-Editor

Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers have announced their 128th mail-bid sale of important numismatic books, which will close on Thursday, February 28. Featuring selections from the Paul Rynearson library and other properties, the sale includes hundreds of standard works on ancient coins, as well as a variety of works on medieval, foreign and U.S. numismatics.

The sale is composed of 1267 lots of literature covering the entire range of numismatics. Highlights include:

—A complete set of the Forni reprint of the massive Corpus Nummorum Italicorum, the masterpiece of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (lot 204)

—The complete presentation editions of the Bowers & Ruddy/Merena sales of the Garrett, Norweb, Eliasberg and Brand collections, as issued in three imposing volumes, one of only 15 possible sets (lot 914)

—A plated copy of Henry Chapman’s enormous catalogue of the John Story Jenks collection, with 42 photographic plates (lot 949)

—The Marquess of Milford Haven’s landmark British Naval Medals (lot 526)

—G. Kenneth Jenkins’s important The Coinage of Gela (lot 399)

—An 1871 broadside catalogue of a Bangs, Merwin & Co. coin sale (lot 889)

—An original 1875 Crosby on The Early Coins of America (lot 976)

—John Muscalus’s original manuscript of his doctoral dissertation, Early Banking Enterprises in Relation to the Development of Public Education (lot 1127).

Bids may be placed via mail, email, phone or fax. The printed catalogue has been sent to customers on the Kolbe & Fanning mailing list. A limited number of copies remain available for purchase for $15 postpaid. The catalogue also may be downloaded in PDF form from the Kolbe & Fanning website at 

www.numislit.com. For full bidding instructions, please see the catalogue and read the terms of sale. 

For more information or to place bids, please contact David Fanning at df at numislit.com or (614) 414-0855. Thank you, and we look forward to your participation!

NEW BOOK: A GUIDE BOOK OF U.S. COINS. 2014

Dennis Tucker of Whitman Publishing forwarded this note about the new 2014 Red Book.  Thanks!
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A formal media release for the 2014 Red Book will go out next week, but I wanted to give E-Sylum readers advance notice about some new features this year.

Of note to numismatic bibliophiles: we’ve revamped appendix B, “Collectible Red and Blue Books.” Our new layout presents the Red Book in a way that’s logical for collectors and makes sense from a market perspective. We list the classic hardcover Red Book (1947 edition to date) in its own chart, instead of combining hardcover, softcover, spiral, and other formats together in one long chart. This is convenient because the hardcover is the most popular format for collecting. The other mass-market formats (softcover; spiralbound softcover; spiralbound hardcover; Journal Edition; and Large Print Edition) are discussed under separate headings, with narrative pricing instead of charts. For example, softcovers are described like this:

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