The E-Sylum v17#35 August 24, 2014

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The E-Sylum
  
  An electronic publication of
  The Numismatic Bibliomania Society


Volume 17, Number 35, August 24, 2014
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WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM AUGUST 24, 2014
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KOLBE & FANNING SALE #136 SEPTEMBER 12-13, 2014
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NEW BOOK: CASH IN YOUR COINS, 2ND EDITION
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NEW BOOK: EUROPEAN MEDALS IN THE CHAZEN MUSEUM
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NEW BOOK:  2014 CANADIAN NUMISMATIC RESEARCH SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS
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LATIN AMERICAN MEDALS BOOK STILL AVAILABLE
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BOOK REVIEW: CHOPMARKED COINS: A HISTORY
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BOOK REVIEWS: BNR PRESS WWII GUIDES
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DR. ARIE KINDLER 1920-2014
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QUERY: M. DAVID AND HULMEVILLE BANKNOTES
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2015 INTERNATIONAL NUMISMATIC CONGRESS
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NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: AUGUST 24, 2014
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ANOTHER CHARLES PERCIER COIN CABINET 
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QUERY: WHAT IS THIS MORGAN DOLLAR ITEM?
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DC PROGRAM USES WOODEN TOKENS 
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COLLECTING WORLD COINS (BUT NOT NCLT)
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GOTHIC ART "COIN" INCORPORATES AGATE INSERT
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HOLABIRD SEPTEMBER 2014 WESTERN AMERICANA  SALE
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GALE PUBLISHING FOUNDER FREDERICK RUFFNER DIES
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WHO GETS YOUR E-BOOKS WHEN YOU DIE?
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QUIZ ANSWER: FIELDS MEDAL DESIGNER R. TAIT MCKENZIE
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PHILADELPHIA MINT HITS NEW COIN PRODUCTION RECORD
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THE ASSAYER'S BLOWPIPE
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CLASSICAL NUMISMATIC GROUP AUCTION 97 HIGHLIGHTS
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RESEARCHERS UPDATING BETTS ON AMERICAN COLONIAL MEDALS 
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THE FOLEY COLLECTION OF EARLY ENGLISH MEDALS
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HOWARD BERLIN VISITS THE NEW ORLEANS MINT
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NORSE-AMERICAN COPPER DIE TRIAL DISCOVERED
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1909 VDB LINCOLN CENT STILL GATHERING DUST ON MARS
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RUSSIA REFUSES TO TOUCH APOLLO'S GENITALS
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AUSTRALIAN GROUP TOSSES FOUND CHINESE COIN BACK IN SAND
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JERSEY GROUVILLE HOARD BEING DISMANTLED
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RAMTHA GOLD WISDOM COIN
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THE DO-IT-YOURSELF BOOK HEADBOARD
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FEATURED WEB SITE: NUMISMATIC NETWORK CANADA
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WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM AUGUST 24, 2014






New subscribers this week include:
Michael Shutterly and 
Chris McDowell.
Welcome aboard!  
We now have 1,760 subscribers.


Guess what?  It's my birthday. Thanks, Mom!
Thanks also to several readers who passed along their birthday wishes, including  Bill Eckberg, Mike Marotta, Bob Evans, John Kraljevich , Paul Withers, Oded Paz, Scott Barman and others.  By the way, it's also the birthday of E-Sylum contributor W. David Perkins.  Happy Birthday!


This week we open with an auction preview from Kolbe & Fanning, three new and recent books, and a review of Colin Gullberg's new work on chopmarked coins.


Other topics include Dr. Arie Kindler, the 2015 International Numismatic Congress, silver ingots, circulating world coins, R. Tait Mckenzie, early English medals, and the New Orleans Mint.

 
To learn more about the assayer's blowpipe, scorification dishes,  the Baltimore gold hoard, numismatist William Bowman, the Kadman Numismatic Pavilion, and Charles Percier's coin cabinets, read on.   Have a great week, everyone!


Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum




	
KOLBE & FANNING SALE #136 SEPTEMBER 12-13, 2014


David Fanning forwarded this press release about next month's Kolbe & Fanning numismatic literature sale.  Thanks.
-Editor



 
Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers Auction September 12-13


Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers have announced their latest auction sale of numismatic books, periodicals and catalogues, to be held September 12-13, 2014. The sale will feature live online bidding and will be held as an internet auction, though bidders may place bids by other methods if they prefer.


The two-day sale features important material on European numismatics from the library of a longtime dealer. 







Highlights include:


	Classic works on German numismatics by Alexander von Hessen, Joseph Appel, Emil Bahrfeldt, Max Bernhart, Heinrich Buck, Karl Wilhelm Dassdorf, Karl Domanig, Ernst Fischer, Karl Friedrich, Paul Joseph, Viktor Katz, Wilhelm Freiherrn Löffelholz von Kolberg, David Samuel Madai, Alfred Noss, Carl Freiherrn von Schrötter, Karl Gustav Ritter von Schultthess-Rechberg and many others.


	Important European auction sales including the 1897 Unger sale, the 1888-1909 Sammlung Engelhardt, the 1943-45 Grantley sales, the 1902-03 Rainer collection, the 1904 Chelminski sale, the 1932-34 sales from the Fürstlich Fürstenbergischen Münzkabinettes Donaueschingen, Sammlung Eugen Felix (1895), the 1909-11 Stroehlin sales, the Collection Legras (1882-83), the Ludwig Belli sale (1904-05), the Count Ferrari German sales (1926-29) and many others.


	Other European classics including Bernays and Vannérus on Luxembourg, Demole on Geneva, Galster on Danish and Norwegian medals, Habich on Italian Renaissance medals, Hildebrand on Swedish commemorative medals, Hutten-Czapski’s important work on Polish coins, Netscher and van der Chijs on the coins of the Dutch East Indies, Schou on Danish and Norwegian coins, and much else.








Books on ancient coins will also be offered in the sale, as will material on U.S. numismatics. Some highlights from these sections include:


	Biaggi’s work on sestertii

	Cahn on Naxos

	The text volume of Haeberlin’s Aes Grave, from the library of Edward T. Newell

	A set of Mazzini’s important work on Roman imperial coins

	Both Schlessinger sales of ancient coins from the Hermitage

	The dedication copy of David Cassel’s important work on postal currency, as well as regular copies of the first and second editions

	The scarce Perry Fuller auction sale of the Baltimore gold hoard, with the very rare prices realized list

	Scarce U.S. banking histories including Emory Wendell’s two-volume work on Michigan.



Through live internet bidding, bidders will be able to participate in the sale online as they would in a live auction, using the custom bidding platform developed for Kolbe & Fanning by the popular online auction service iCollector.com. To see the new Kolbe & Fanning live online bidding site, please go to 

auction.numislit.com. Bidders preferring to bid by mail, fax, phone or email may continue to do so, but all such absentee bids must be received by September 11. Absentee bids cannot be accepted on the sale dates. 


Kolbe & Fanning’s website is 

www.numislit.com and their live online site can be reached at 

auction.numislit.com. We look forward to your participation.



	
NEW BOOK: CASH IN YOUR COINS, 2ND EDITION


Dennis Tucker of Whitman Publishing forwarded this press release about the new edition of Beth Deisher's "Coin Inheritance Book".  Thanks.
-Editor




Whitman Publishing announces the release of the expanded, updated
second edition of Cash In Your Coins: Selling the Rare Coins You’ve Inherited, by Beth Deisher. The 304-page book will be available online (including at Whitman.com) and from book sellers and hobby shops nationwide on September 13, 2014, for $9.95.


The first edition, published in June 2013, won the Numismatic Literary Guild’s “Best Specialized Book on Numismatic Investments” award for 2014, and a first-place nonfiction award from Ohio Professional Writers. The second edition is expanded with 16 additional pages, updated case studies, a new chapter on taxes, new illustrations, and more.


Deisher wrote Cash In Your Coins to inform and protect the hundreds of thousands of Americans who already collect coins, and those who will someday inherit their collections.


Coin collecting is a popular national pastime, and Deisher says, “It seems almost every American family has a stash of ‘old coins’ passed down through the years.” The hobby’s popularity is not new: Whitman Publishing has sold more than 23 million copies of its annual Guide Book of United States Coins (the “Red Book”) since 1946.


Valuable coins might be archived in safe-deposit boxes; they could be tucked away in Grandpa’s cigar box. They might compose a carefully arranged collection—or sit jumbled in a disorganized hoard. Cash In Your Coins answers questions that inheritors often ask: “How rare are these coins? What are they worth? Should we sell? Where would we even begin?”


Author Beth Deisher is an award-winning journalist and retired editor of Coin World, the premier news weekly for collectors. For more than 30 years she has answered the questions above. In Cash In Your Coins, she guides readers through the process of making sense of their coins, and making smart decisions when they sell.


Q. David Bowers (research editor of the Red Book) says, “With Beth Deisher’s guidance  you’ll avoid costly mistakes and make decisions about your coins with more confidence.”


In addition to giving confidence to tomorrow’s inheritors, Cash In Your Coins gives comfort to today’s collectors. They can keep a copy of the book alongside their collection, knowing it will be there to give their heirs profitable knowledge and advice.


Cash In Your Coins, 2nd edition • ISBN 0794842383
Softcover • 6 x 9 inches • Full color • 304 pages • Retail $9.95


For more information, or to order, see:

Cash in Your Coins 2nd Edition, Selling the Rare Coins You've Inherited

(/www.whitman.com/store/Inventory/Detail/Cash-in-Your-Coins-2nd-Edition-Selling-the-Rare-Coins-Youve-Inherited+0794842380)



	
NEW BOOK: EUROPEAN MEDALS IN THE CHAZEN MUSEUM


The American Numismatic Society has announced the publication of a new book on European Medals.
-Editor




European Medals in the Chazen Museum of Art
Highlights from the Vernon Hall Collection and Later Acquisitions


Introductory Essay by Stephen K. Scher
Contributors: Philip Attwood, Arne R. Flaten, Mark Jones, Douglas Lewis, Eleonora Luciano, Joseph G. Reinis, Stephen K. Scher, Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Louis A. Waldman
Edited by Maria F.P. Saffiotti Dale


Softcover, illus.
ISBN: 978-1-93327-017-3
List price: $39.95 (plus S&H)
Member price: $27.97 (plus S&H)


Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison
American Numismatic Society
2014


This grouping of medals represents the museum’s Renaissance, Baroque, and nineteenth-century highlights and illustrates the history of the art of the commemorative medal. This catalogue incorporates the scholarship of nine international medallic experts. Their erudition, consummate research skills, and effective prose are evident in sixty-one essays on some of the masterpieces of this art form written for the education and enjoyment of students, specialists, and the general public alike.


expected ship date: October 2014


For more information, or to order, see:

European Medals in the Chazen Museum of Art

(numismatics.org/Store/ChazenEuroMedals)




	
NEW BOOK:  2014 CANADIAN NUMISMATIC RESEARCH SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS


Scott Douglas submitted this announcement of the availability of the latest issue of the Transactions of the Canadian Numismatic Research Society.   Thanks.  Get your orders in, people!
-Editor




I'd like to make the readers of The E-Sylum &nbsp aware of the Canadian Numismatic Research Society issue of the (New Series) Transactions Volume 2 for 2014.


The contents include:


Scott Douglas, Biographical Notes		

Len Buth, London Ontario’s Earliest Numismatist William Bowman
		
Ron Cheek, Re-Examining the 1860 Royal Visit Commemorative Medal Varieties	

Christopher Faulkner, Some Particulars Concerning the Lauzon Ferry And Its Token		

Ron Greene, The Early Tokens of Nelson, B.C.		

Scott Douglas, Afterword	

A Guide for Contributors



This year the Transactions is 106 pages, card covered and perfect bound. The orders have been coming in from word of mouth but notices will be in the upcoming Royal Canadian Numismatic Association (RCNA) journal. Shortly after the orders are assembled (I am firmly aiming for mid-October) the edition will be mailed and that will be that. We do not plan on holding stock.


To order your copy please send a cheque or money order payable to Scott Douglas for:


Canadian addresses (postpaid): $36 in Canadian funds or 
United States addresses (postpaid): $40 in US funds to:


Scott Douglas 
273 Mill St. East 
Acton, Ontario, Canada 
L7J 1J7


Questions? Email Scott Douglas – 

sdouglas333 at gmail.com
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For more information about the Canadian Numismatic Research Society, see:

www.nunet.ca/cnrs.htm




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LATIN AMERICAN MEDALS BOOK STILL AVAILABLE



Alan M. Stahl,
Curator of Numismatics at Princeton University writes:


Though the exhibit closed August 3rd, there are still copies of From a Thankful Nation: Latin American Medals and Orders from the Robert L. Ross Collection at Princeton University for sale. Copies are available on Amazon at $125.




Here's some information on the exhibit and catalog from an earlier E-Sylum      
article.
-Editor




The exhibition features hundreds of Latin American decorations, ranging from a plain silver medal awarded to an officer of the Buenos Aires armed forces that freed Montevideo from Spanish colonial rule in 1814, to Guatemala’s highest award given to foreign presidents, the Collar of the Order of the Quetzal with its Mayan motifs, to a gilt example of the Cuban Order of Che Guevara, awarded for assistance to Latin America’s many left-wing movements of national liberation. Unlike the United States, which has generally avoided the award and wearing of medals as a vestige of European royal practice, the Spanish-, Portuguese-, and French-speaking nations of the New World have embraced such displays as tangible expressions of appreciation for the efforts of their soldiers and citizens.


 
“From a Thankful Nation” traces the development of Latin American medals from their origins in the emblems of medieval crusading knights and the Spanish, Portuguese, and French royal and imperial orders through the revolutionary battles and the building of republics throughout the region. The use of medals as part of the governing strategies of dictatorial caudillos and adventuring “filibusters” is illustrated by such pieces as the pearl-adorned example of the Grand Cross badge of the Juan Pablo Duarte Order of the Dominican Republic that the dictator Rafael Trujillo, as grand master of the order, awarded to himself. While tracing the awards to common soldiers and laborers, the exhibition is most eye-catching with the display of no fewer than ten examples of Collars, the highest grade of an order (usually reserved for heads of state), as well as seventy Grand Cross sets, most replete with brightly colored silk sashes enameled gilt badges, and breast stars.


The exhibition is accompanied by a full-color catalogue written by Ross and Princeton’s Curator of Numismatics, Alan Stahl. In 736 pages of text and with 969 color photographs, it sets all of the official medals of each country in their historical context. The catalogue is for sale from the Library for $125; inquiries should be directed to    


loliveir at princeton.edu. The exhibition is also documented in a fully illustrated website:   


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