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WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM JANUARY 21, 2024

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WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM JANUARY 21, 2024

Wayne Homren 2017-03-15 fullNew subscribers this week include: Denis Richard - Coin Photography Studio.Welcome aboard! We now have 7,471 subscribers.

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This week we open with a chance to revisit the Invasion of Champaign, a numismatic literature sale, an obituary, a great 1985 video, and more.

Other topics this week include ANACS, the CCAC, Playfair Ciphers, the New Jersey Numismatic Society, Dansco albums, the 1922 Denver Mint robbery, fixed price and auction previews, Ben Franklin's money, and strawberry scrip.

To learn more about the extraordinary BCD Library, Peter Mitchell, Adna Wilde, Ed Price, Mexican Numismatics, the 1913 Liberty nickel, the James II and the Seven Bishops medal, the Hyman Montagu Collection, the Nine Siliquae denomination, and money-themed tattoos, read on. Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum

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