The E-Sylum v28n04 January 26, 2025

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The E-Sylum
  
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Volume 28, Number 04, January 26, 2025
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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. Contact me at whomren at gmail.com anytime regarding your subscription, or questions, comments or suggestions about our content. 



This week we open with a new podcast episode, two new books, two club newsletters, updates from the Newman Numismatic Portal, a phishing warning, and more.



Other topics this week include glass trade beads in California, 
medal designer Eugene Daub, reduction punches, the first ANA President, Gerry Fortin, Jim Halperin, an auction preview, coin hoards, collectible counterfeits, a Dickin medal, and Wyoming National Banknotes.



To learn more about Postal Orders used in India, the International Primitive Money Society, ANS Curator Howland Wood, puddles of fire-melted coins, the woman so weighted down with coins that she could barely move, 
 William Jerrems, Jr., the Numismatic Certification Institute (NCI), Presidential documents appointing  Carson City Mint officials, 
a Roman coin counterfeiter's coin molds, zincers, the 1793 Manchester Promissory Halfpenny, the United East India Company, and the National Medal of Science, read on. Have a great week, everyone!



Wayne Homren 
Editor, The E-Sylum




 






 




 






   

 



 

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