The E-Sylum v21n12 March 25, 2018

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The E-Sylum
  
  An electronic publication of
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Volume 21, Number 12, March 25, 2018
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WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM MARCH 25, 2018
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STOCKLEY EMAIL SALE CLOSES MARCH 26, 2018
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KOLBE & FANNING BUY OR BID SALE NUMBER 6
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NEW BOOK: CONFISCATION: GOLD AS CONTRABAND
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CIVIL WAR TOKEN ENGRAVERS INFORMATION SOUGHT
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COINTALK NUMISMATIC LITERATURE DISCUSSION
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CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH RARE BOOK THEFTS
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YORKSHIRE NUMISMATIST ADDED TO NEWMAN PORTAL
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NEWMAN PORTAL SEARCH: STARBURST EFFECT
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MORE ON READY’S BRITISH MUSEUM REPLICAS
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A SILVER CAPE COD CANAL COMPLETION MEDAL
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NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: MARCH 25, 2018
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MORE ON THE POLISH MILLENNIUM MEDAL
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MORE ON GUTTAG BROTHERS TOKENS
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VOCABULARY TERMS: BULLION COIN AND MEDAL, NCLT
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HARRY BENNETT WILBER (1872-1945)
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HARVEY STACK'S NUMISMATIC FAMILY, PART 14
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BRITISH INDIA GEORGE VI QUARTER ANNA VARIETIES
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MINNEAPOLIS MARCH 2018 YOUNG NUMISMATIST EVENT
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THE A & A SAINTS COLLECTION OF DOUBLE EAGLES
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NUMISMATIC NUGGETS: MARCH 25, 2018
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SELECTONS FROM STACK'S BOWERS MARCH 26, 2018 SALE
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WAYNE'S NUMISMATIC DIARY: MARCH 25, 2018
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DENNIS TUCKER'S MARCH 2018 BALTIMORE BLOG
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SIGNIFICANT ROMAN COIN FIND IN NORFOLK
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NETHERLANDS WORKERS UNCOVER COIN HOARD
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CHINA'S "L. GIORGI" PATTERN TEN CASH COIN
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CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND COIN
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SCARINCI ON THE BREAST CANCER AWARENESS COIN
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DAVID J. RYDER CONFIRMED AS MINT DIRECTOR
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WSJ QUESTIONS NEED FOR CENTS AND NICKELS
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PHILADELPHIA TOKEN PHASEOUT NEARS COMPLETION
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BARRON'S ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS ANDERSON PAPER MONEY
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ARTICLE PROFILES BLAIR, NB $10 NATIONAL BANK NOTE
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VENEZUELA PONDERS DROPPING THREE ZEROS
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IN OTHER NEWS: MARCH 25, 2018
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FEATURED WEB PAGE: VIET NAM NUMISMATIC CLUB
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WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM MARCH 25, 2018





New subscribers this week include: 
John Mundy.
Welcome aboard! We now have 5,293 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 with your compliments. Contact me at whomren at gmail.com anytime regarding your subscription, or questions, comments or suggestions about our content.



Check out our updated numismatic literature sale calendar at the right of this article (at the top of each full issue).   Dealers Kolbe & Fanning have scheduled their sales #149 and #150 for April 28 and July 14, respectively.  Alan Workman, the Florida bookseller who acquired the numismatic literature business of the late Fred Lake, will hold his first sale with a planned closing date of May 19th.  Use this link to get on his email list for announcements:

http://eepurl.com/r3muv 
.  Alan writes:


As it stands right now, this sale is going to have a large number of books on banking history, NY county histories, paper money, U.S. coinage, ancients, treasure, and pirates. Should be something for everyone!  My goal is to have my website updated and the auction uploaded to iCollector by the middle of April.



This week we open with two numismatic literature sales, one new book, a call for information, and word of a major rare book theft.


Other topics this week include the Starburst Effect, the Cape Cod Canal medal, bullion coins, double eagles, the Whitman Baltimore Coin Expo, the U.S. Mint, and Venezuela's coin and banknote changes.


Also, Arash Ilavia submitted an original article on obverse varieties of the British India George VI Quarter Annas of 1938 and 1939. 


To learn more about the W. W. C. Wilson collection, gold as contraband, the Mount Vernon Club, engraved portraits of Washington, left-handed riflemen, the Selinos tetradrachm, 
 William and Charles Barber, Redbook cookies, and
Howard Daniel's Vietnamese Money Wallet, read on. Have a great week, everyone!


Wayne Homren 
Editor, The E-Sylum










STOCKLEY EMAIL SALE CLOSES MARCH 26, 2018


Numismatic literature dealer Richard Stockley of Senneville, QC
Canada is holding a three-lot sale ending March 26, 2018 at 6pm Eastern time. Click on the images to see larger versions on our Flickr archive.


 Bids are accepted by email only.   Richard's address is

rstockley at videotron.ca
.  He can provide more information and images on request.
-Editor










Lot #1  Canadian Antiquarian & Numismatic Journal Vol V 1876 #1-4, 196 pgs, hard bound in 1 vol,  ¼ leather, plates of the Cuvillier scrip along with the article by McLachlan, 3 other articles on medals also by him. Covers are very worn, contents are tight & clean, inside has sticker “M. A. STE MARIE / #0498”          Starting price $50
 








Lot #2 Wayte Raymond  auction # 1996 sale of nov 16-18, 1925, The W. W. C. Wilson collection of U.S. & Canadian coins, tokens, historical and Indian Chief medals etc  an important sale with prl. Has the 2 halftone plates mentioned below.   Covers & spine are faded with a few chips,   Starting  $50
 






Lot #3 2 photographic plates from the above sale commissioned in 1997 by Ford.  Auctioneer’s description “a lot of 2 photographic prints made from the negatives that created the halftone plates found in some versions of the 1925 Wilson sale..”  His estimate $75      Starting $30


Richard Stockley

39 ch. Senneville,

Senneville, QC

Canada H9X 1B8




KOLBE & FANNING BUY OR BID SALE NUMBER 6


Numismatic Booksellers Kolbe & Fanning submitted this announcement of their sixth “Buy or Bid Sale” which closes on April 6, 2018.
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Kolbe & Fanning Announce Buy or Bid Sale #6 Through April 6





Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers have announced their sixth “Buy or Bid Sale,” which begins now and will close on Friday, April 6. The sale focuses on modestly priced books, giving collectors an opportunity to add to their libraries at minimal cost.


There will be no printed catalogue. The PDF catalogue is available now for downloading from the Kolbe & Fanning website at 

numislit.com
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As the name of the sale suggests, customers may bid on items they wish to acquire or buy them outright at the published price. The Terms of Sale will give full instructions on how to participate: please read it carefully.


The sale includes over 1400 works on ancient, medieval and modern coins, as well as general works, periodicals and sale catalogues. “Buy” prices have been kept low to promote sales. To further encourage participation, the firm is offering free domestic shipping to bidders spending at least $500; there will also be no packing and processing fee for this sale. Again, please read the Terms of Sale before participating.


If you have any questions about the sale, please write the firm at 

orders at numislit.com
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Thank you in advance for your participation. Download the sale today: 

numislit.com
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NEW BOOK: CONFISCATION: GOLD AS CONTRABAND


A new book has been published on a subject that hasn't gotten much coverage in the numismatic world outside of reporting on the 1933 double eagles.
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Professional numismatist Kenneth R. Ferguson has released a new book on the confiscation of gold from American citizens between 1933 and 1975. Though this interlude in history is often overlooked or downplayed by both historians and economists, its significance to the modern coin dealer can't be overstated. 


Ferguson takes readers step-by-step through the legal precedents established by President Roosevelt -- some of which remain on the books to this day -- and offers expert analysis on the ongoing and future relationship between gold and government.


"Confiscation: Gold as Contraband 1933-1975" is available now for $11.99 on Amazon.com. For a direct link, click here: 

http://amzn.to/2Gd2N5W
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Kenneth R. Ferguson received his master’s degree from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin in 1973. He made his living as a professional coin dealer for over 40 years, serving as both President of the Texas Coin Dealers Association and Consultant to the American Numismatic Association. He has lived in Austin since 1966. 


For more information, or to order, see: 


http://kennethrferguson.com/

 




CIVIL WAR TOKEN ENGRAVERS INFORMATION SOUGHT



Dave Bowers on behalf of the Civil War Token Society is nearing completion of a manuscript, Engravers and Minters of Civil War Tokens. Unlike certain other areas of American numismatics—colonial and early American copper coins being examples—much about the engravers of Civil War tokens and their mintage and distribution is unknown, this being especially true for some of the more obscure artisans and shops.


Dave is seeking biographical and numismatic information on these engravers in particular:


Louis Roloff, of New York City, who made and signed many tokens. Little is known about his biography—place of birth, time of death, education, family, and the like.


V.R. Allen and Charles Ulrick (or Ulrich). These two engravers were mentioned by Henry Clay Ezekiel in “Cincinnati’s Civil War Tokens,” The Numismatist, July 1911. Ezekiel lived in Cincinnati, and during the Civil War he paid frequent visits to the shops of Lanphear, Stanton, and others and, presumably, say Allen and Ulrick engaged in engraving. Allen was a stencil maker, but nothing has been found about his activities in Cincinnati 1861-1865. Ulrick remains a complete mystery.


Mossin & Marr in Milwaukee and F.C. Key & Son in Philadelphia were well-known in their time and made tokens during the Civil War. It seems that slightly after the war, John Marr on his own and F.C. Key & Sons acquired dies made by other shops and made restrikes and mulings of them. Does anyone have any information about these.









In Baltimore the Shakespeare Club was active by 1866 and held meetings in Bellevue Gardens on West Baltimore Street in Baltimore, a pleasure ground that was home for picnics, military unit rallies, and more. The Mount Vernon Club issued tokens that were similar in design. Does anyone have any information about the activities of either during the years 1861 to 1865?
















A first-class mystery surrounds the pieces lettered SILVER MINE TOKEN and COPPER MINE TOKEN combined with various other dies, included a Capped Bust portrait die of 1860. These dies were later in the hands of A.W. Escherich, by which time they had rim breaks. Does anyone know about the origin of either?


Also, if anyone has invoices by which merchants and others ordered tokens in quantity during the Civil War these would desirable to see.


Your “reward” is appreciation by Dave and a credit in the book. Contact: Dave Bowers, 

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